Here in Brussels, the city has provided plenty of public seating, public spaces, and drinking fountains in recent years. Public space management is also crucial. In addition, uniformed gardiens de la paix or peace guardians patrol public squares and provide low-level public order security and advice. If ever there was an argument for Dublin City Council appointing a public realm tsar to oversee our public spaces, then the threatened sealing-off of parts of our city from the public should be the rallying cry. But it was particularly annoying to hear politicians — Simon Harris and Verona Murphy among them — imply that Dr Holohan was ‘finger-wagging’, a particularly uncalled for insinuation, considering his responsibility to the nation’s citizens.

Source: Irish Independent June 06, 2021 01:39 UTC