Following on from last week the council now have admitted that the Office of Public Works is completely out of the loop regarding the restoration of the castle - this came as a surprise - to me anyway!According to this news item in today's Enniscorthy Guardian (22/4/2010) the ground floor of the castle will open in late August (!) with some sort of an exhibition, while all the serious work on the upper floors has been long fingered. Oh dear........
This is the same council whose offices in the Market Square look out on the 1798 memorial and its expensively paved surroundings. This whole area is becoming an eyesore with broken and missing paving slabs, kerbstones coming up out of the road - a danger to vehicles and pedestrians - unpainted seats, weeds and the ever present dog poo. If the wretched council can't even take care of the space right in front of their offices how on earth do they expect to deal with colossal undertaking which is the restoration of the castle? Enniscorthy 1500 how are you!
To end on a positive note, the remaining 'head' shop at the bottom of Slaney Street has closed down in recent days - hopefully for good.
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