A number of politicians have weighed in on the situation.
PEOPLE HAVE REACTED angrily online and a number of politicians have come out against the installation of a bike rack outside the popular LGBTQ bar Street 66 on Parliament Street in Dublin.
This is frustratingly antagonistic from DCC. Councillor @CllrCat is going to follow up with management, as indeed will my office but how this was permitted in the first instance requires an explanation. Roll on a time when the executive of DCC can be held accountable. https://t.co/EwcTQr5e2TAlso on Twitter, some well-known figures in the LGBTQ nightlife scene weighed in and questioned the circumstances around the installation. Among them were Buzz O’Neil-Maxwell and Panty Bliss.
“There doesn’t seem to be any coherent plan when it comes to granting street furniture licenses,” she told the meeting.