Residents want playground at Ice House Hill

September 1966

THE urban council hears a deputation on behalf of the residents of O’Hanlon Park, who are seeking permission to use Ice House Hill as a playground for the youth of the locality.

A spokesman says there are about 100 children in the area between the ages of 4 and fourteen, and that an athletic club has been formed.

Residents also want the council to do something about the menace of a drain running between the railway line and the roadway in front of some of the houses.

After the deputation leaves, the chairman, Mr M.C. Mullen says the question of the drain has been going on as long as he can remember.

He suggests the council gets its solicitor to write to CIE to ask what are they prepared to do about filling it in.

Something has to be done, even if it means the council getting an injunction to force CIE to deal with the problem.

Senator Farrell adds the council, in turn, might then find that residents of another part of town might seek an injunction against the council to force them to stop flooding by the Rampart.

Mr Coburn says, as far as he can recollect, CIE are prepared to let the council have the drain if the council fills it in.

The situation is that the council doesn’t want the drain.

The chairman says the best thing for the moment is to ask CIE to send an engineer down, and they can meet him on the spot.

Mr McKevitt recalls that the festival committee made suggestions about Ice House Hill, and it might be a good idea if it got together with the O’Hanlon Park residents.