Council to accommodate families at €100,000 a year each, as it took on a 20-year lease with no get-out clause
The council has committed to pay at least €40m over that 20 years to rent Avalon House, after taking over the lease from the Peter McVerry Trust in 2020.
THE DISH
A Mexican couple re-designs the Dublin tortilleria of their dreams for a city where tortilla seekers are rarer
While unable to do daily deliveries, they’ve still a focus on freshness, they say.
Thump. Rattle. Scrape. Behind one fragment of the city’s soundscape
Nottingham-based Murphy & Son, which makes the cork bags widely used in keg deliveries in Dublin, says it sells more to Ireland…
On Moore Street, a new restaurant offers Georgian delicacies
Khinkali dumplings, cheese-stuffed khachapuri bread, lobio bean stew and more from the Caucasus.
CITY DESK
Stallholders at a Glasnevin market are pushing to stay on past a January deadline to leave
But the Honest2Goodness traders may have been pushing at the wrong door, as the warehouse appears to have new owners.
Council outlines plans to prevent future flooding of Clontarf area damaged after August rains
Some residents of Castle Court still aren’t back in their homes. “It’s awful to think … overnight this can just happen,” says local resident Helen Rooney.
At meetings, Dublin City Council officials push to answer councillors’ questions away from public view
Some of the meetings to discuss the city’s housing delivery and services have moved to closed-door workshops too.
Even with an agreed top-up, it still looks as if there will be less money next year to refurbish council homes
Dublin city councillors at a budget meeting talked about funding to do up vacant social homes, and also for street cleaning.
After 17 years of bustle and hustle, a Ballymun supermarket closes its doors
“Today is the saddest day in Ballymun, when all the till dogs must go their merry way.”
A woman pleads with bureaucrats for a path out of Gaza for her husband
Gazans resident in Ireland who aren’t Irish citizens face high hurdles in getting their family members out of the war zone to join them.
UNREAL ESTATE
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“One particular facet of living in Dublin city centre that I’ve always found hard to stomach is the persistence of abandoned buildings, which could benefit their surrounding areas.”
the city through a lens
Photo of the Month: October 2023
“My photo shows a cleaner using spirits to clean the bronze [statue of Molly Malone] so that the tourists may gape and grope once more.”
CULTURE DESK
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