Graffiti in neighbourhood

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Since February our area has been spoiled by a spate of graffiti. I wrote to Dublin City Council asking them if it was possible for them to have it removed and some of it was but in other places it was left in place. I wrote to them again last week but got back a letter saying my complaint had been passed on to my area management but that is I wasn't happy I could go the Ombudsman's office! I hadn't complained simply asked if the graffiti that was left in place could be cleaned and thanking them for the previous work.

I'd clean it up myself but not sure of the legal situation. Its on walls that surround the local park and where people's homes back on to public paths. It looks awful and gives a very bad impression of what is generally a nice estate.

Any advice would be appreciated. Many thanks
 
I for one cannot understand why they can't put the long-term unemployed onto jobs like that, civic stuff that would improve local areas and get people doing something for their money. Graffiti is only one of the many civic things that could be looked after in this way.
 
There is a terrible attitude towards graffiti by the powers that be in Dublin in my experience. I live beside an open green area which is designated by Fingal co co as a play area for the children of the road I live on but is actually used as a drinking area by the local teenagers from a nearby estate.

Two years ago I had a huge problem with these kids (had my windows smashed twice just for fun it seemed, had litter thrown in to my garden constantly and had graffiti all over the side wall). I wrote to every politician in the area as well as writing several letters to Fingal co co re the use of their land and the grafitti but got no satisfactory response.

I was then shocked to come home from work one day to find a letter from Fingal saying that they were going to prosecute me under the litter pollution act for the grafitti on my side wall (I should add I had already painted it 3 times at this stage to remove graffiti) and that I would have to pay a fine of 125 euro. They took this back when I threatened Joe Duffy but I really couldn't believe that this was their attitude. Blame the poor sod who has to constantly put up with the antisocial behaviour from people on land owned by Fingal. Graffiti looks so bad and can really bring down the look of an area. There should be teams of people employed in local councils to specifically deal with this issue.
 
Thank you for your replies. I was going to contact local councillors but wanted to see if i could sort it out by contacting the council first. I know how the council must feel when the place is defaced within weeks of an area being cleaned up but to have to live beside it is even worse. My wife is ashamed to have visitors so we have to go and visit them instead! Needless to say the graffiti only appears in the morning after the night before, we never see anyone actually doing the deed. Futher down the road the council solved the problem by planting shrubs all along which eventually grew to cover the walls, but that did take a few years.

Thank you again for your interest.
 
Hi, It's also a terrible attitude towards the unemployed. Why should they have to go and clean up someone else's graffiti just because they were unfortunate enough to have lost their job?
 
Swallows said:
Hi, It's also a terrible attitude towards the unemployed. Why should they have to go and clean up someone else's graffiti just because they were unfortunate enough to have lost their job?
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You misread my post, I said 'long-term unemployed' and I suspect that most people who have lost their jobs would rather do something than just sit around, (I know I would). Civic amenities would improve as would the individuals sense of worth - this was done in NY in the early 90s and it worked brilliantly.
 
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