Croke Park Residents Meeting

Wednesday 24th August 2022

• Noeline Blackwell – Chair
• Billy O’Keeffe – Community Liaison Officer
• Peter McKenna – CP Stadium Director
• Superintendent Martin Mooney – An Garda Siochana
• Jim Clarke – Aiken Promotions
• 72 Residents from the local area surrounding Croke Park

1. Presentation by Community Liaison Officer – street /road closures for Garth Brooks Concert, community fund reopening, etc. 
2. Presentation by An Garda Superintendent – evacuation routes, division of the policing area

• Wash cart on duty to clean up after any anti-social behaviour
• Manned desk to take any issues arising – ASAP – Crew will be on call 6am-2am
• Extra litter bins – 50-barrel bins
• Urinating in the streets not to be tolerated – gardai to enforce a zero tolerance
• 3 Extra Portaloo stations to be in place

• 3pm hard lockdown (Inner cordon)
• From 10.15pm no access for egress each night
• Zero tolerance to urinating on the street
• Residents’ car pass - all gardai working the event to be briefed in full
• Extra visitors pass to be available on request for Fitzgibbon St. or email [email protected]
• Pedestrian access of visitors to residents to be communicated to all Gardai by email

• Clean up on St. Margaret’s Avenue not being done
• No active resident’s association
• Sewage issue
• Lack of facilities since Conliffe College closed
• Rear of portaloos noisy and smelly
• Security – not enough Gardaí
• Parking tickets on residents’ cars – car passes to be displayed
• Access for shift workers
• Access to roads
• Why is Belvedere Road not included in the cordon
• Ballybough road – cones are out from 7am
• Access to the handball centre – rent charges
• Residents parking signs to be considered
• Right hand turns onto Whitworth place for residents from Dorset Street/Drumcondra Road Lower
• Residents’ subcommittee/working group to be set up – process for application to be decided
• Apartments not getting leaflets
• Improved communication