You would think, given the amount of vitriol that has been directed towards SISK and their slow, slow pimping of our harbour that when – after eight years of headaches and heartache – there was some good news for Greystones, they would let people know about it?
And yet, despite regular requests from the Greystones Guide to be informed of when the hoarding would finally start to come down on our new public square down at the harbour, not a word was sent.
A direct inquiry earlier today to Cllr Derek Mitchell – who has been the poster boy for the SISK development from the start – came with the following reply…
Not sure. Some rumor something at 4 today but i don’t know.
derek
What the end product should look like…
That rumour had blossomed into something a little more definite an hour later, when Mitchell joined fellow Fine Gael Councillor Grainne McLoughlin and good ol’ SISK for the first official removal of that ugly hoarding down at the harbour.
The mind boggles at the decision not to let the good people of Greystones know about this long, long, long-overdue happy development.
We reckon such sly shenanigans is all down to putting politics (and profit) before people – an old Fine Gael trademark, some would argue.
Here’s hoping these let the rest of us know about their next move before it happens. Or do the people of Greystones not actually figure in all these grand, money-spinning plans…?
Thanks to Brian Keeley for today’s pics
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I actually thought that the first two comments might be April Fool jokes until I realised that they were posted last night and are, in fact, the serious views of two people, one of whom is a councillor. If ever there was an indication of what the harbour will become, it is contained in those two opening statements. A public utility stolen from underneath the noses of the citizens and effectively gifted to those only concerned with profit.
So the chair of the Municipal Council agrees that kids should not be allowed play down at the harbour! Why am I not surprised?
Grannie McLoughlin has opposed every attempt to reclaim something for the community from this disastrous project, including scuttling the open discussion scheduled for a Town Council meeting a couple of years back.
Grannie, why don’t you and your friends in Sisk just erect some signs forbidding the public to enter the harbour? As you’ve already excluded the fishermen, have handed acres of public land to private developers, failed to implement the anti-erosion measures in the planning approval (and allowed multiple other breaches of the planning conditions), paid no attention to the concerns of residents in the immediate area, keeping the rest of us from doing anything other than act as free extras in Sisk and Marina Village’s PR photoshoots would seem a logical next step.
Quick! Quick! Someone get a helmet for Derek! It’s not safe!
Walked around this evening. Very impressive. However there were a few lads playing football on the new plaza. Told them its not a football pitch, they ignored my comment..this will have to be nipped in the bud..
Agree Vincent – also the parking needs to be sorted, hopefully will all be done very quickly.
So the chair of the Municipal Council agrees that kids should not be allowed play down at the harbour! Why am I not surprised?
Grannie McLoughlin has opposed every attempt to reclaim something for the community from this disastrous project, including scuttling the open discussion scheduled for a Town Council meeting a couple of years back.
Grannie, why don’t you and your friends in Sisk just erect some signs forbidding the public to enter the harbour? As you’ve already excluded the fishermen, have handed acres of public land to private developers, failed to implement the anti-erosion measures in the planning approval (and allowed multiple other breaches of the planning conditions), paid no attention to the concerns of residents in the immediate area, keeping the rest of us from doing anything other than act as free extras in Sisk and Marina Village’s PR photoshoots would seem a logical next step.
I don’t understand why locals were not invited to the opening; was it a one-party only invitation?
Here’s a radical thought:
Why not put up some signs, to tell “the plain people of Greystones” ANOTHER THING THEY’RE NOT ALLOWED TO DO, in and around what purports to be “THEIR” harbour !