“Save the Abbey Manor”

“Save the Abbey Manor Hotel” - a “cento” or patchwork poem by Monica Corish, taken from articles in the Observer relating to the Abbey Manor, Dromahair
August 2011:
Tables are set
In the dining room
Waiting
A pervading smell of damp
Extensive water damage
Mushrooms and moss
Grow out of the carpet
Lead removed from the roof
Copper stolen
Water tanks ripped out
The honeymoon suite
Has been vandalised
Faeces
Smeared
All over the bathroom
September 2011
Local woman Bernie Linnane McBride
Has set up a Facebook page.
Three hundred and fifty fans within three days.
We need the Abbey Manor.
Who exactly owns the business?
There will be no more secrets.
September 2014:
There is still no answer on ownership.
Registered letters were sent.
Returned.
The entire process has taken too long.
It is vital that all avenues be pursued.
Council must be proactive in bid to save.
April 2015:
No news.
Silence.
A dripping tap.
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