Why No City Centre Manager?

 

Independent candidate Davy Hyland at one of Newry’s many pot-holes

 Every prominent town throughout Ireland "normally" has a town manager whose main priority is to promote and highlight the outstanding characteristics of the individual town and to resolve any issues that affect or detract from the towns’ development
and progress.

Independent election candidate Davy Hyland has said "Given that Newry has had the "honour" of city status for the past decade, it seems mighty strange that this area has had NO City Centre manager for several years and yet the office (based in Hill Street) continues to be funded from several sources, the main one being Newry & Mourne District Council and you the ratepayer."

Hyland continued "No one can deny the fact that Newry City has problems on several fronts- The Hill St area is a ghost town after 6pm, footpaths and streets in the city centre continue to deteriorate, the river and canal are in a shocking state of neglect band disrepair whilst in the Drumalane Rd and Dominic St areas local residents are up in arms over the loss of car parking facilities outside their own homes.

"These issues and many others would be in the domain of a City Centre manager and yet such a person does not exist. "

Hyland concluded "It is high time for the issue to be resolved and a full time accountable City centre manager appointed ASAP."