[Leica] IMG: Cull the Vultures

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Worth protesting for!

Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 2:19 AM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> 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.
>
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