Cllr Nick Houghton is launching the 2022 calendar this autumn, themed around Abstract Assets . The challenge is to take a photograph which is an abstract portrayal of a Malvern Town Council Asset. The asset may not be easily identifiable from your photograph, but all will become clear when seen alongside a standard photo and description. Beacon Camera Club has offered its services to help with the submission of competition entries and photographs can be submitted via their website by filling out the online form and uploading your digital image. Tony McDonnell, club chair, said he was delighted to have been invited to support the Mayor’s Charity Calendar Photographic Competition.
Residents living in a small row of houses in Dublin’s docklands said they are under constant siege as multi-storey developments continue to surround their homes.
Locals living on the row of terraced houses on Mayor Street Upper have described how the area, which was once a quiet cul-de-sac, is now surrounded by building sites, cranes and apartment and office blocks.
Tony McDonnell (62) has been living on the terraced row since 1992 and says the disturbance has been going on since 1998 when the planning permission was sought for the National Conference Centre and the Spencer Dock apartments.
“In the early stages of development, they used to allow the developers to work until half four in the morning after starting at 7am. That’s 21 hours of noise,” he said.
housing hell
Dublin residents reveal 23 years of living in shadows of ‘noise, dust and dirt’ as new developments encase their homes
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22 Feb 2021, 7:30
RESIDENTS of a small row of houses now stuck in the shadows of hulking tower blocks have told how their summers have been stolen from them.
The embattled people of Dublin’s Mayor Street have lived with 23 years of “noise, dust and dirt” as one new development after another encased their homes.
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The residents of Dublin s Mayor Street have revealed how their summers have been stolen by hulking tower blocksCredit: Paul Sharp - Commissioned by The Sun Dublin
The current lockdown and the most recent restrictions on click and collect comes as a yet another blow to local retailers. Shops which had enjoy an uplift in trade in the run-up to Christmas, were forbidden from having sales and then had to pull the shutters down when the country went into Level 5 as the number of COVID-19 cases soared. From early December we were very busy and sales for the period were actually up on last year, commented Jim McDonnell of Tony McDonnell Menswear. However, not being able to have a sale in the store was a big let down. Normally St Stephen s Day would be our busiest day but not this year. Our post Christmas trade was down 50%.