Kindness in a time of scarcity.Exile in Dublin, Ireland 1988-1992. Dublin Corporation maintenance workers and standards.

In December 1989,Tony Gregory,a man bad-mouthed by Communists,seeing my difficulty with serial evictions by landlords,arranged for me to have a large,wrecked flat at 358 Saint Teresa's Gardens,allocated to me as a tenant. I was considering emulating Tony Gregory by standing as a Community candidate for the Dail but backed his campaign in February 1989.

On the first night I had to tape cardboard to the broken windows.

Nothing to fear...the Good Old Decent Dubs, maintenance workers who were employed by Dublin Corporation,soon came to the rescue...

A new sink was fitted... 

New filaments were fitted to the steel

 windows ...

A new door fitted...new internal fire-doors were installed...

The flat was professionally rewired and replumbed...the bath was re-enammeled

The walls were stripped of patchwork cheesecake wallpaper by hand by the cream of the Dublin craftsmen without the aid of a steamer and tastefully repainted in green....

Men of Dublin,I devoted my three years and ten months to your cause and the cause of the deprived, underprivileged and poor....

It is because of your devotion to the revolutionary-democratic and Connolly road to national democracy that I became a democrat.

Look around you and see a country whose fortunes were reversed by your hard work.


Mile mhile buiochais aoibh go leir.



Joseph Paul Mc Carroll LL.B.

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