Across the city, parents snatch their kids out of the way of red-light-breaking drivers
Despite years of talk, a promised national strategy on red-light cameras is yet to be published – let alone implemented.
They agreed to move the discussion over to the new local community safety partnership.
The event was part of a growing clown culture in Dublin, said performer Francis Breen.
Meanwhile, councillors for Dublin 15 are looking for ways to maybe draw more visitors to their part of the county.
Such “local community safety partnerships” are being rolled out nationwide, generating both hope – and criticism.
In order to ensure the continuation of life on this planet, everybody has to get involved, says Grace Collier, a member of the school’s Eco Committee.
“It’s not that the people who live there don’t have cars,” he says. “It’s that the neighbourhood is not a car park, and the car parking is on the edge.”
The change may mean the pitches can withstand more use, but it also means they won’t absorb as much rain, or sustain as many creatures, they say.
Are there short-term responses that would help?
“I can't sit around crying about what I don't have ... looking for someone else to solve my problems,” Caroline St Leger says. “I need to be part of the solution.”
And 100-year-old Eoghan Ó Ceallacháin has been there for the whole journey.