Tonight’s vote to halt the sale of Magdalene Laundry on Sean McDermott ran out of time at this afternoons city council meeting.. I’m enormously disappointed but determined to redouble my efforts to ensure this sale is defeated.
— Gary Gannon (@1GaryGannon) September 3, 2018
Yesterday evening.
At Dublin City Council.
A scheduled vote on a motion from Social Democrat councillor Gary Gannon – to stop the sale of the magdalene laundry site on Sean McDermott Street in Dublin to a Japanese hotel chain – never took place as the council ran out of time.
The motion will be back on the agenda on Thursday, September 13.
A petition in support of the motion has gained more than 10,000 signatures.
It can be signed here.
Vote on Magdalene Laundry sale adjourned by Dublin council (Breakingnews.ie)
Previously: Acknowledgement
If this site isnt uses as a memorial, and a muesum, it will be regretable.
the city doesn’t need a memorial and a museum. it does need housing for vulnerable families and victims of domestic violence though.
A memorial could be included, but I don’t think a museum would dray crowds and I don’t know how much upkeep would cost etc.
Responsible development of housing in a way that respects the history must be possible?
Yep, i posted before about respond housing up in drumcondra who built housing on the old laundry site. Of course it can be done sensibly and respectfully.
That €14 million for a derelict site could certainly be used for something useful.
Such as housing for the homeless.
But that’s not such a big problem.
I’ve had an imperial arseload of misery porn at this stage. Sell the goddamned thing.