Cops welcomed with smoke bombs and flares Dublin Pride 19:57 Jul 14 0 comments Gemma O'Doherty: The speech you never heard. I wonder why? 05:28 Jan 15 0 comments A Decade of Evidence Demonstrates The Dramatic Failure Of Globalisation 15:39 Aug 23 1 comments Thatcher's " blind eye" to paedophilia 15:27 Mar 12 0 comments Total Revolution. A new philosophy for the 21st century. 15:55 Nov 17 0 comments more >>Blog Feeds
Anti-EmpireNorth Korea Increases Aid to Russia, Mos... Tue Nov 19, 2024 12:29 | Marko Marjanovi? Trump Assembles a War Cabinet Sat Nov 16, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi? Slavgrinder Ramps Up Into Overdrive Tue Nov 12, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi? ?Existential? Culling to Continue on Com... Mon Nov 11, 2024 10:28 | Marko Marjanovi? US to Deploy Military Contractors to Ukr... Sun Nov 10, 2024 02:37 | Field Empty
The SakerA bird's eye view of the vineyard
Alternative Copy of thesaker.is site is available Thu May 25, 2023 14:38 | Ice-Saker-V6bKu3nz
The Saker blog is now frozen Tue Feb 28, 2023 23:55 | The Saker
What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
Moveable Feast Cafe 2023/02/27 ? Open Thread Mon Feb 27, 2023 19:00 | cafe-uploader
The stage is set for Hybrid World War III Mon Feb 27, 2023 15:50 | The Saker
Lockdown Skeptics
News Round-Up Sun Jan 26, 2025 00:45 | Richard Eldred
Reform Tops National Poll for First Time Sat Jan 25, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Chris Whitty Was ?Sceptical? about Vaccine Mandate for Healthcare Workers and Says Decision Was ?100... Sat Jan 25, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
I?m a Daily Mail Journalist. This is Why the Media Failed During Covid Sat Jan 25, 2025 13:00 | David Southwell
AfD Firewall Cracks as Desperate CDU Says it?s Open to Right-Wing Party?s Support in Passing Migrati... Sat Jan 25, 2025 11:00 | Eugyppius
Voltaire NetworkVoltaire, international editionVoltaire, International Newsletter #117 Fri Jan 24, 2025 19:54 | en The United States bets its hegemony on the Fourth Industrial Revolution Fri Jan 24, 2025 19:26 | en For Thierry Meyssan, the Sarkozy trial for illegal financing of the 2007 preside... Fri Jan 24, 2025 19:23 | en Should we condemn or not the glorification of Nazism?, by Thierry Meyssan Wed Jan 22, 2025 14:05 | en Voltaire, International Newsletter N?116 Sat Jan 18, 2025 06:46 | en |
Guerilla Artists attack racist graffiti in Limerick!
national |
miscellaneous |
news report
Wednesday July 03, 2002 00:10 by Amanda Moloney
Over the weekend and under the cover of darkness, a group of daring Guerilla artists painted over racist graffiti and sent a clear message to the Administration of Limerick University and their plans for "renewal" of Plassey. Guerilla Art Over this weekend in Limerick, racist graffiti which covered the canal bank wall mysteriously disappeared. In its place now stands a mural of a beautiful riverside area which is about to be replaced with concerete. The mural is of an area called Plassey, which is on the banks of the Shannon. For generations it has been popular for swimming, row-boats, fishing, walking and jogging. It is also directly behind the University of Limerick. The current administration plan to build a large bridge and connecting road across the river in this area. The plan is an unpopular one for a number of reasons. It will cause the destruction of one of the cities few remaining green spaces, for example. The university has even been taken to court by some of its own students in order to get it stopped. Unfortunately they have lost the case and while they may appeal it is increasingly likely that the bridge will go ahead. The mural was painted by a number of people disguised in Limerick Corporation jackets. The wall had been previously covered in racist slogans and adverts for the NSRUS website.
|
View Comments Titles Only
save preference
Comments (2 of 2)
Jump To Comment: 1 2It's a bit hard to read (t'was hard to paint too!)
what it says is
"If you walk where the Shannon meanders,
You'll find Plassey is well worth a gander.
If U.L. has its way,
it will all fade away
neath the concrete, now is that plan 'grander'?
Where the hell where the security forces artists when all this diabocial behaviour was going on?
BTW Amanda, you looked very different in the photo on Tuesday's chronicle.