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Support being sought to remove bollards in Strandhill

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Support being sought to remove bollards in Strandhill

A Sligo councillor is to ask his colleagues to support his call for the council to remove the controversial bollards at the seafront in Strandhill.

 

Fianna Fail Councillor Tom MacSharry has a motion to this effect on the agenda for this coming Monday's meeting of the county council.

 

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The bollards -- erected to prevent people congregating as part of Covid prevention measures -- have evoked passionately different opinions.

 

They were even mentioned during a Dail debate by Cllr MacSharry's cousin, Deputy Marc Mac Sharry, who said if the Nazis had erected them for D-Day, God knows what the outcome of World War II would have been.

 

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Whether the actual decision is, ultimately, a councillors' or council executive function, remains unclear.

 

However, with the vaccination rollout, Cllr Tom MacSharry believes it's time to remove the bollards.

 

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