The motion to have Crumlin, Sean McDermot Street and Coolock swimming pools recognised as stand alone pools in Dublin City Council policy was successfully passed last night with a clear majority and great support.
Save Our Swimming Pools protest Dublin City Council 12th April 2010 from Paula Geraghty on Vimeo.
Thanks to everyone who turned up at the protest beforehand, the turnout was great.
We still have a battle on our hands. The body language and the response from the City Manager was still negative, he stated that there was very little money and it was likely that the Council budget could be cut by a futher 500 million Euro.
What we have to do as a campaign is get 100’s of people to go to Sean Ardagh’s and Michael Mulcahy’s clinics, lobby for the monies, meet with the workers, advertise the hours that the pool is open, make it impossible to close the pools down. Keep up the pressure.
The local campaign will meet again soon, I will keep people posted.
By Cllr Joan Collins (People Before Profit Alliance, Dublin City Council)
