‘Art’ Attack
By James Lawless ~ September 24th, 2008. Filed under: Naas.
Another thing I ended up looking into over the Summer was the issue of graffitti at several locations around Morrell road and around Oldtown. It was pretty prominent in a number of places and not quite in keeping with the landscaping scheme to say the least so I got onto Naas Town Council to see what could be done. The council have recently aquired a graffitti removal machine so this was a chance for it to get to work.
Inspecting the 'installation'
Long story short the graffitti was scrubbed off, the residents were happy, result. However I fear this could be a recurring theme. There is prevention of course where walls can have an anti-graffitti coating applied which would be worth considering for external public facades. I also think some form of outlet for the (presumably) kids that get up to this kind of thing in the first place would be useful too. A dedicated graffitti wall could work it has been successful elsewhere. While Monread is now sorted, graffitti has since cropped up again in Sallins along the Waterways entrance. Proving the cause must be tackled along with the symptom.
October 14th, 2008 at 10:17 am
James,
Like the new blog theme, but I thought that if you were going to graffiti a wall, you’d have come up with something better than that
Paul