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THE PEACE PARK in Dublin’s city centre will reopen tomorrow after years of closure due to anti-social behaviour.
The park, located in Nicholas Street, across from Christchurch Cathedral, was designed as a sunken garden to reduce traffic noise at a busy junction.
Dublin City Council said it has found that sprucing up old parks, like recent upgrades to the nearby St. Audeon’s park, “usually displace the anti-social behaviour”.
Independent councillor Mannix Flynn says that for several years the old Peace Park suffered from anti-social behaviour in the form of public drinking and drug use.
The council told TheJournal.ie that “following on from the opening of the Peace Park we will also have a part-time warden in situ to monitor any such behaviour.”
The old park featured a bronze ‘Tree of Life’ statue, a fountain, and features biblical and quotes from Irish poets WB Yeats and Patrick Kavanagh.
Plans for a redesign and relaunch of the park were announced in 2016, but there were objections to some of the proposals.
One plan was to remove railings around the park to create an open public space. However this generated concern among local residents and ultimately did not go ahead.
Last year, the Government of Flanders in Belgium offered to partner with Dublin City on a memorial to the 50,000 Irishmen who died in the Flanders fields during World War One.
The aim of this memorial is “to bring people together in reflection about war and peace, about sacrifice and suffering, about tolerance and hope, about forgiveness and reconciliation”.
Although some councillors objected to the idea of a war memorial in a peace park, the Flanders memorial has been installed as part of the revamped park at Christchurch.
Flynn has said that having a part-time warden at the Peace Park is a welcome step by the council and that the public are “not going to accept” anti-social behaviour at the park.
Flynn said there “should be zero tolerance to people who’d interfere with our parks and have them closed down.”
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The Hutch-Kinahan feud will finally be off the front pages.
In other news a whistle was stolen
Comments should be closed out of respect for the families of those who lost their lives in this tragedy.
@Robbie Clancy: They shudden have died. Arse ink allergy is treatable nowadaze!!
It’s time To Clare the Air
Clare Echo & the Clare Champion. Wow
@T Jay O’Mea: perhaps they should rename their paper now…….The Clare Loser
I seen it on Sky News and CNN
@Gabriel Holmes: *saw
@Neil Mac: when the last grammar correcting turkey was in secret hiding with his list of mispronounced and commonly missed used words clutched firmly to his chest he was discovered by a passerby who shouted ” I seeded him in that cave” everyone knew what the passerby meandid and the angry mob killdid him…
@Liam Meade: no
@Liam Meade: hahaha
In other news. A pigeon farted, however it was a silent one so he blamed it on a seagull who was in close proximity at the time.
@Robbie Clancy: that’s hilarious Robbie………..
Now that’s a Banner headline!
What’s black and white and tread all over?
I was a newspaper delivery man and we delivered every title from the Mirror to The Independent and Wexford People we didn’t get time to throw bundles under the van and drive over them several times plus there was only ever just me in the van we weren’t lucky enough to have help. Then again you’d want to be mad doing that job at 4am for very very little. These guys obviously had plenty of time.
@In my opinion: Is that a royal we so if there was only ever you, explain yourself / selves, whatever.
There was cross words everywhere
A fairly crappy thing to do in fairness LOL!
Nice PR stunt
This leads to an interesting report of the incident in The Champion’s next edition!
April Fools!! Slightly early though.
Hahahaha sssssake
Must be fake news
Very disappointing behaviour by the clare champion to a newly formed newspaper trying to get off the ground
Brexit, potential nuclear wars between the USA, N.Korea and Iran, Wars and mass migration in the Middle East …And now this. Who’d have thought law and order would have broken down on Craggy Island.
War de-clare-ed.
Not really front page headlines
Newspaper wars…
Tyre tracks make front page in clare!
If the sky falls, they shall catch larks in the Clare air.
Wow. The 2 top ranking members of the Clare cartel are really bringing heat on themselves . They’ll be all over the Sunday world tomorrow now. The gangsters nicknamed the paperman and the paper boy
Very disappointing behaviour by the clare champion to a newly formed newspaper trying to get off the ground
Very disappointing behaviour by the clare champion to a newly formed newspaper trying to get off the ground
Heads need to roll this is out of order these people represent the company and behaved appallingly
People may laugh, but it a very sinister act!
Hilarious considering one is free and the other isnt. Both are shite anyway
@Brian Clancy: if you’re into print media, the Echo is the future…free paper, guaranteed circulation and lots of interesting content. The Champion seems to be worried Lol.
Very disappointing behaviour by the clare champion to a newly formed newspaper trying to get off the ground
Its quite amazing that the Clare Daily don’t have an issue..
@GᗩᒪᒪEᖇY ᗩᑎᗪ ᗰᑌSEᑌᗰ ᑭᖇO-ᒪIᖴE STᗩᖴᖴ Iᑎ IᖇEᒪᗩᑎᗪ: If the Clare daily had an issue it would care.
@caspar ghost: I blame the flying columns.
here is this weeks traffic news in clare ” a road incident has taken place and gardai are investigating a hit on run on the victim identified as the clare echo not to be confused by the evening biddy early echo which also had on a fall on leeside . good news the clare echo is thankfully recovering and would like to thank the clare champion for its concerns . please note this county is n big enough for the both of us
#newspaperlivesmatter
You should see what my CCTV picks up… White Van drivers are scary…
@TamuMassif2019: Watch out for the ones that camouflage themselves in Red, they’re really scary, lmao.
here is this weeks traffic news in clare ” a road incident has taken place and gardai are investigating a hit on run on the victim identified as the clare echo not to be confused by the evening biddy early echo which also had on a fall on leeside . good news the clare echo is thankfully recovering and would like to thank the clare champion for its concerns . please note this county is n big enough for the both of us
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