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Graffiti on Bray Seafront
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02-02-2012 1:59pm#1
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It's generally accepted that graffiti should be removed as soon as possible before it attracts more but local authorities seem to be incapable of dealing with the problem. If it was a private house/business would the owner leave it for months? The area around the water treatment plant and the Dargle are in an awful state and getting progressively worse. The entire DART line from Greystones to Howth and Malahide is a graffiti artists playground and I'm sick of writing and emailing all those concerned but I won't let up. How difficult could it be to stake-out some of these regularly graffitied locations and catch some of the people responsible?
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The painting event is not on your Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bray-Tidy-Towns/107053662673337 nor is it on your rather dated website http://braytidytowns.weebly.com/news.html
A paltry 177 friends on the Facebook page would either indicate a serious lack of civic pride amongst local people or that the group is badly organised. I won't be up to help with the painting as I live in County Wexford, in a town that must have modelled itself on Bray when it comes to how the Council looks after the place. Anyway, good luck and I hope that the sun shines.
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and the little church on the lower slopes desecrated with skum spraying on it...700 years old and the council dont give a crap..Judgement Day wrote: »It's generally accepted that graffiti should be removed as soon as possible before it attracts more but local authorities seem to be incapable of dealing with the problem. If it was a private house/business would the owner leave it for months? The area around the water treatment plant and the Dargle are in an awful state and getting progressively worse. The entire DART line from Greystones to Howth and Malahide is a graffiti artists playground and I'm sick of writing and emailing all those concerned but I won't let up. How difficult could it be to stake-out some of these regularly graffitied locations and catch some of the people responsible?0 -
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and the little church on the lower slopes desecrated with skum spraying on it...700 years old and the council dont give a crap..
I snapped this one from the inside of that church:
It was since removed by the council (I presume) and another (name)piece has appeared in it's place. That one will be removed soon enough and I'm sure another will appear after that again. I assume that they like that spot inside the church because they can remain unseen and complete their work.
I'm sure you guys are correct in that giving them areas where they can work unhindered wont completely stop those a$$holes that will always get a twisted buzz from putting up ugly scribbles in the most conspicuous areas.
But we have to get real about it too; it's been around since the year dot and it ain't going anywhere, you can see it on the ruins of ancient Egypt, Athens and Pompei & our church is in good company with the Church of the Holy Sephulcre having markings from down the generations. Somenone mentioned it destroying the environment but that's a subjective opinion and it's popularity in youth culture should be an indicator to you that many other people feel that done right it can enhance our environment.
So knowing that the council and the Gardai have limited resources, and that a councillor participates on this forum i would like to let it be known that there are other opinions out there and if I see them removing graffitti from along the prom, and Gardai accosting them down there then I am inclined to think "well done, good job, resources well spent" and would even like to come down and help with the clean up. But if i see them chasing their tails trying to keep the giant white walls of a sewage plant pristine I would think, "Is there really not better things they could be spending time and money on?"
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I had no idea that the unfortunate church on Bray Head had been subjected to this sort of carry-on but I'm not surprised. The cleaning up of such damage - especially if ongoing - is also very detrimental to the building, walls etc. One has only to look at the sea wall along the DART line near Blackrock to see where much of the pointing between the stone blocks has been removed due to repeated cleaning efforts. In this case apprehension and prosecution is the only answer.
As for graffiti being around as long as the pyramids, I think that's pushing it a bit and, to me, it's just another symptom of the laissez faire attitude to everything in Ireland - leave it until it's too late.
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mathproblem wrote: »I snapped this one from the inside of that church:
It was since removed by the council (I presume) and another (name)piece has appeared in it's place. That one will be removed soon enough and I'm sure another will appear after that again. I assume that they like that spot inside the church because they can remain unseen and complete their work.
I'm sure you guys are correct in that giving them areas where they can work unhindered wont completely stop those a$$holes that will always get a twisted buzz from putting up ugly scribbles in the most conspicuous areas.
But we have to get real about it too; it's been around since the year dot and it ain't going anywhere, you can see it on the ruins of ancient Egypt, Athens and Pompei & our church is in good company with the Church of the Holy Sephulcre having markings from down the generations. Somenone mentioned it destroying the environment but that's a subjective opinion and it's popularity in youth culture should be an indicator to you that many other people feel that done right it can enhance our environment.
So knowing that the council and the Gardai have limited resources, and that a councillor participates on this forum i would like to let it be known that there are other opinions out there and if I see them removing graffitti from along the prom, and Gardai accosting them down there then I am inclined to think "well done, good job, resources well spent" and would even like to come down and help with the clean up. But if i see them chasing their tails trying to keep the giant white walls of a sewage plant pristine I would think, "Is there really not better things they could be spending time and money on?"
Just another opinion.
Did the Bray People ask for your permission to use that photo?0 -
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