What’s the best way to tell area residents about plans for a new asylum shelter nearby?
The government should tell communities directly about plans for new asylum shelters, some activists and politicians say.
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Historian puts out call for kids to join monthly history book club
On Saturday, Amelia McCarthy said she liked the current pick to read but wanted to know why there are no seagulls in it, since it’s based in Dublin city centre.
Pub in Tailors’ Hall closed and beer gardens dismantled – for now
The 300-year-old council-owned building in the Liberties, which is leased to An Taisce, has been at the centre of a dispute over planning.
South Dublin County Council launched no enforcement actions for poor standards in rentals last year
Fingal County Council did very few too.
It’s time to get moving on building an arts venue in the northern suburbs, area councillors say
“The potential for a venue for the arts should be looked at,” City Arts Officer Ray Yeates said. But it could take a decade to get it off the ground, he warned.
Time to consult with groups led by disabled people on plans to make Mansion House more accessible, councillor says
“We are more than capable of speaking for ourselves,” says Leo Kavanagh, national secretary of Physical Impairment Ireland.
Local councillors push to close another route in the north inner-city due to anti-social behaviour
Former council planner Kieran Rose says the council has lost the plot. “It’s crazy,” he says. “If we do this we are giving up on the city.”
Councillors look for more consultation with disabled people on city-centre traffic plan
“If it’s stopping us from going into the city centre, it infringes our basic human rights,” says Robert Sinnott, of Voice of Vision Impairment.
Report into vacant above-the-shop units finds that they are too expensive to be widely used for social homes
“Financially it worked out two to three times the cost of delivering a new unit,” said researcher Michelle Connolly, of Dublin Simon Community.
It can be a lose-lose scenario for some tenants who ask the council to push their landlords to fix up substandard apartments
It can anger the landlord, and alert the council that it shouldn’t be paying to subsidise rent for such a place – and risk leaving the tenant homeless.
Council delays plans to unveil joint plaque for boys who died in Artane Industrial School and Christian Brothers who ran it
It’s not acceptable for boys who died while detained in the institution to be remembered with the men who ran it, says independent Councillor Mannix Flynn.
Why are brent geese moving inland, scuppering plans for homes and all-weather pitches?
The answer is food. “There is a lot of marine algae in Dublin Bay but not enough … As that runs out they start to come onto the football pitches.”
Despite councillors’ reservations after pilot in north inner-city, government rolling out local community safety partnerships
“I do think there is huge potential there for something like this, but I do have some very, very serious concerns about how this model is working.”