Call for more signs outside our recreational parks in the town
MANY Sligo town residents have no idea that parks such as O’Boyle Park or the Fair Green exist because there are no signs up.
Councillor Chris MacManus told the meeting that the issue struck him at the recent re-naming of Forthill Park as O’Boyle Park, when several people (from Sligo town) asked him where it was.
“There’s not one sign telling you where the park is,” he told officials.
“It’s the same with the Fair Green. We need some form of physical signage strategy and also indications on our website. We should be proud of it,” he said.
“We talk about lack of signs at Knock airport and we’re not promoting it here!” he added.
Director of Services Dorothy Clarke agreed that signs to parks were “so important and vital” but there was no money for a new sign strategy.
She said signs were allocated to recreation facilities on a “case-by-case funding” basis.
Cathaoirleach Cllr Seamus Kilgannon asked if a sign to O’Boyle Park could be put up on Connaughton Road, but Ms Clarke said it would “cost a lot of money from our own resources.”
Cllr MacManus said there was no point spending thousands on parks if a small budget for signs couldn’t be also spent: “There’s no visible notion that a recreational park is there.”
Ms Clarke said that both O’Boyle Park and Mitchell- Curley Park will be subject to