Heritage Council podcast
Episode 1: Dr Philip Crowe
In episode one, Alison Harvey, from the Heritage Council, speaks with Dr Philip Crowe, Assistant Professor at UCD’s School of Architecture and Centre for Irish Towns (CfIT).
Episode 9: Mark Dearey
In episode nine, Alison Harvey, from the Heritage Council, speaks with Mark Dearey who runs the Store bar and Music Centre in Dundalk, Co Louth.
Further information in relation to Episode nine
Mark Dearey runs the Spirit Store Bar and Music venue in Dundalk. His family have been in business on the heart of the town for three generations. He is a former Green Party Senator and County Councillor and as such, in 2008, proposed the plebiscite to establish the first Business Improvement District (BID) company in Ireland, outside of Dublin. He currently chairs Dundalk BID, which in tandem with Louth County Council and local and regional stakeholders has significantly strengthened the Town Centre’s appeal and commercial performance in recent years.
Mark is a founding member of the Heritage Council and Partners’ Dundalk CTCHC Project and he has worked closely with Ali Harvey and others on the creation of the first-ever CTCHC baseline report for Dundalk Town Centre, which had a ministerial launch in June 2019. The launch event in Dundalk Town Centre was organised around a study visit by a delegation of the Dutch Provinces, which focused on an exchange and sharing of key outcomes and outputs in relation to innovative town centre regeneration policy and programmes in Ireland and the Netherlands.
