Community lessons
May 29th, 2009 | By Ian Poulton | Category: Ministry‘Letter from Dublin’ for broadcast on Downtown Radio on Sunday 31st May.
The wind has blown the election posters on the lamp post sideways so one of them looks directly in this direction. “Marius Murgatroyd, Full Time Community Activist”, it declares. We have six councillors in our ward of the county, I could name five of them off the top of my head, but, hand on heart, until his posters went up, I had not heard of Mr Murgatroyd.
This is not through any lack of effort on the part …