Dublin City Council, again, bans poster to spare US president's feelings
Even a version which made no direct reference to Trump and removed his image, and simply read: “No welcome for warmongers” was turned down.
The new plan is currently out to public consultation.
Earlier this year, the council had said it would be done about now. But that's been pushed back again.
Next step: a workshop in September to try to discuss the nuts and bolts of the proposal.
The council plans to restore the historic park in line with its Georgian heritage, but an attempt to hurry it has sent it back to the drawing board.
“I do believe in this project, but it is hard to stand over that when we were given unsound advice," said one councillor.
It's desperately needed, said councillors, pointing to the hundreds of new homes planned for the area.
Councillors still looking to dename Herzog Park – and to rename Diamond Park after Terence Wheelock – say they’ve seen no progress from central government on regulations to make it an option.
“The play trail won’t work for us,” says Geraldine O’Driscoll, who runs an early years service on Mountjoy Square.
The full council is set to vote in June on the plan to rejuvenate the square in line with its Georgian heritage, following 196 submissions to a public consultation.
Residents say that organising more events in the hard-won green space could also help it to thrive.
“Pump tracks are very fun,” says Oran Wood, who discovered the hilly tracks while visiting his cousins. Pump tracks can be traversed on bikes, skateboards, skates and scooters.
First floated as an idea more than a decade ago, it stalled without funding.