[Leica] IMG: Cull the Vultures

[Douglas Barry]

Protest outside the DLR County Hall Planning Dept in Dun Laoghaire, Co. 
Dublin against Greystar's intention to destroy a prominent local 
heritage garden in Monkstown by building 11 tower blocks on it, and bang 
up against a protected structure.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Cull+the+Vultures+-+NoHighRise+Petition+Protest+at+DLR+26_01_2022+DB.jpg.html

Can be seen larger. Sony A7II with 28-70 FE lens.

Douglas

PS This protest was to deliver over 1,000 signatures to the county 
council, but was only attended by about 30 people as we had to present 
the petition during a working day. Most people were working, and many of 
the rest are scared of venturing out of their homes due to the 
tripledemic prevailing.  While I'm chairman of the local Monkstown 
residents group, I was also appointed official cameraman, and rapidly 
found out that getting them all together for a group photo was the 
equivalent of herding cats. With my inactivity photographically over the 
period of the plague, I discovered that I really need a lot of practice 
to keep my eye in.

Greystar are a US property corporation - a behemoth - who we recently 
uncovered were the property managers for the infamous apartment in 
Berkeley where the balcony collapsed in 2015. Six people, all students  
- one Irish American and five Irish - were killed instantly, while 
another six had life changing injuries, and one of those died of those 
injuries in January last year. Unfortunately, we only discovered about 
Greystar's role after the deadline for written objections had passed.  
Local people are incensed at the thought of this crowd redrawing and 
dictating the shape and future of our village. For instance, the houses 
beside mine were built between 1795 and 1798.