Galway Advertiser 2004/2004_06_03/GA_0306_E1_020.pdf 

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20 N E W S

Galway Advertiser

June 3 2004

Play facilities badly needed at Doughiska, says Walsh
BY SINEAD MCGOVERN A local election candidate has hit out at the lack of playing facilities in Galway city's fastest growing surburb. Fine Gael's Brian Walsh has called on Galway City Council to immediately tackle the chronic shortage of recreational amenities in the Doughiska area. Standing in the North East Ward, Mr Walsh has urged the local authority to purchase the c25 acres needed recreational facilities. "The city council should use a compulsory purchase order in order to obtain this land as quickly as possible and immediately start drawing up plans for suitable amenity facilities. "There are hundreds of children and teenagers in Doughiska and their interests are being neglected. We must provide facilities and amenties for them - and quickly." Mr Walsh pointed out that with plans for more houses and estates in the Ardaun corridor, the time was now for City Hall to develop playgrounds, playing pitches, and a local community centre. "These children and teenagers deserve to have their recreational interests catered for and such facilities would also have a positive community impact in Doughiska. The time for action on this issue is now," he said.

Why interfere with Nigerian candidate's posters?

Brian Walsh

in the area which have been zoned amenity in order to develop badly

BY KERNAN ANDREWS Interfering with political posters during elections is nasty, but nothing new although the ugliness of such actions could be seen from a torn down poster of Independent candidate Tokie Laotan. Tokie Laotan is one of two Nigerians running on an Independent ticket for a seat on the Galway City Council. Ms Laotan is standing in the North and East Ward and like the other candidates she has posters up in the city centre, Tirellan, and Ballybane.

However, one of her posters has been ripped down from a telegraph pole on College Road, leaving only a few pieces of it intact. Many would ask, who has to gain from this and what is it that makes the person who ruined the poster so afraid of the candidate? One person was so angered by the defacement of Ms Laotan's poster they wrote in large red letters on what remained of it: "Shame! Shame! on the racist who did this." Drunken youths were also seen on Saturday running through the city centre carrying remnants of Ms Laotan's posters.

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