The 26 County Administration Defence Minister Willie O’Dea must be complimented for telling the truth in relation to the non payment of the 1.7 billion euro for Limerick Regeneration,
a spokesman for Republican Sinn Fein said today
Sean O’Neill, from Prospect, a local RSF community activist said news will be devastating for the countless families in Limerick’s troubled estates who had looked forward to a bright new future free from crime gangs, arson, murder, violence and anti-social behaviour.
Many will recall the images of the fleet of shiny black Mercedes cars sweeping into the deprived estates of Moyross and Southill and Ballinacurra Weston and St. Mary’s Park all heralding a new dawn of enlightened local government and a vindication of the rights of people living in Local Authority housing.
Sadly the dream was only a mirage. The hope raised among the residents was merely words spun by well paid spin doctors. The tragedy is all the more depressing by the comments of the leaders of the failed Regeneration effort saying that private investment will come to the rescue. There is now way that private investment will make up the shortfall.
In effect private investment will engage in what can only be described as an ethnic cleansing exercise where families in local authority housing are evicted to make way for new private marinas, waterside apartments and leisure centres.
This awful image of privilege over people is the sad reality of regeneration in Limerick today. All those who promised false hope to people living with crime and violence should hang their heads in shame.
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