Esmonde Street

THE END OF AN ERA
The developers are moving into the old Celtic Gorey FC grounds. It will soon be a car park. A privately owned fee paying car park, made of hard core, brilliant just what Gorey needs!
Wrong! What Gorey needs is the continuation of the only space in the north of the town that has some sort of community and recreational facilities. In this space close (if not) in the centre of the town is a busy community giving the people of Gorey tennis, badminton, boxing, tae kwon do, scouts, gymnastics, Irish dancing lessons, Gorey youth needs, FDYS drop in centre and more.
The planning application is for a car park lasting for 3-5 years, after that? Well nobody is saying, rumour intitially was for apartments to be built there, but they aren't so profitable any more. The next rumour was for a night club to be built! Are you mad!
The council know this is happening and they aren't going to do any thing about it.
Why?
The simple answer to that is because it is their fault it has happened and they know it will cost them a fortune to make it right. You see some bright spark in 2002 probably looked at a map of Gorey and saw a green space and marked it for "mixed development". Thereby placing the whole enclave in danger of just this sort of thing happening.
Please, please, please, stop this development. It is not good for the future of Gorey, all these activites that are so important for a community to survive will eventually be lost.
The most costly thing for the council to do is ignore this. Every good community needs a place to meet, and this is the only one we have.