Crime Alley

Quote from Connacht Sentinel:

THE filthiest laneway in the city — where human excrement is visible on the ground — is due to be cleaned up within days. The lane, linking Merchants Road with the Dock Road and adjacent to the Hynes Yard multi storey car-park, is being used as a toilet by homeless people. The laneway is full of litter and cigarette butts but the biggest offender is human excrement and urine.
Councillor Michael Crowe told the Sentinel he had been contacted in the past week by people complaining about the state of the laneway. He visited the laneway and others in the past week and on one occasion saw one man urinating. He said the condition of the public laneway was unsanitary and unhygenic. “It’s a health hazard the way it is and not only that but the public cannot use it because of the filth, the smell and they feel intimidated by the group of people who congregate at either entrance.

Aw. I always found that laneway had a certain grimy charm to it. Years ago, when car-parks used to be used by teenagers to drink (now theyv gone inside to places like Fibber Magees and Sally Longs) we aimiably nicknamed this area "Crime Alley", as a sort of reference to the Batman comics. It's been this horrible for years, I guess now that there is a radical new development of the entire area nearby it has come to the attention of the "political big-wigs". Still.. i have fond memories of it..