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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Renter quoted €2,850 a month for studio in Rathmines co-living
In January 2023, Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien said he’d look at bringing co-living under rent-pressure-zone rules.
Shared living in Rathmines, pitched as part of solution to housing crisis, is being used as hotel for tourists
“A planning enforcement file will be opened and investigations will be carried out,” a council spokesperson says.
Each year since it got powers to look into breaches of rental laws, the RTB has launched fewer and fewer formal investigations
The number of investigations isn’t in itself a measure of its success as a regulator, said its deputy director earlier this month.
In Ballymun, is there a problem with the sewage network?
Some residents in the Shangan Avenue area have reported issues, but Irish Water says all is well.
Cover image for Dublin Inquirer print edition #100
“This month’s cover is inspired by Dublin’s ‘Fortress Grand Canal’, perhaps the most striking example of hostile architecture, of designing against humanity, in the city in recent years.”
At Declan and Donal’s Deli, a breakfast roll especially for you
The names and the orders keep coming.
Council Briefs: More focus on inclusion, and more seizures of scramblers and the like
These were two of the issues discussed at Monday’s meeting of the Dublin City Joint Policing Committee.
We’ve decided to start selling advertising again
While our costs have been rising over the past couple of years, our number of subscribers hasn’t.
Several apartments flagged by council for bad conditions in recent years have landlords registered to the same Portobello address
One area being looked at in a current government review of the rental sector is whether the regime to enforce basic standards is working.
Government briefings include worry that lower-income renters could be priced out of “affordable” cost-rental homes
Rising costs of delivery pushed the government to open up schemes to higher-income renters – but with possible side effects.
Council moves to force Dublin Airport operator to hand over more data on “forever chemicals”
“They had done testing but didn’t give us the results … We intend to use our statutory powers to request the submission of this information.”
Despite what its CEO told an Oireachtas committee, Dublin Airport’s operator now says it has found “forever chemicals” in water
A local resident says he has asked for years about the results of testing. DAA says they’re not finalised yet.