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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In Drimnagh, a push to reopen a park that’s been locked up for years
“It’s a real waste of public space, we should get it open as quickly as possible,” a local councillor says.
In Coolock, a missed opportunity for a lower-cost, lower-carbon heating system for the area
Data centres in the Clonshaugh business park are producing extra heat, but it’s not being put to use warming homes and businesses nearby.
Two plans progressing to give Dubliners better bike storage at home
Dublin City Council is moving to provide public bike bunkers, and the government’s changing rules to make it easier to install private ones in front gardens.
As rosehips begin to blush, Dubliners dig out old recipes
Along the Grand Canal, and in parks across the city, people are quietly gathering them to dry to make into tea, flavour gin, or add to hedge ketchup.
Flying drones are delivering food in Dublin, so where are companies allowed to build drone bases?
Neither the Fingal development plan, nor the Dublin city one, set out where drone bases are allowed and where they aren’t.
Four years ago, the national government promised stronger, more democratic local government. What’s happened since?
Interventions in the roll-out of Dublin’s city centre transport plan have spurred debate around who gets to determine the direction of the city.
Dublin Airport might breach its passenger cap this year, and the blame game has already begun
Airport operator DAA is pointing the finger at the Irish Aviation Authority, but the IAA says the company that runs the airport is ultimately responsible.
Council in talks with LDA on building housing on part of Ballymun Shopping Centre site
But it is still early days.
Years since Rathborne rose up, there are still poles with no traffic lights
Is this what can be expected as the council relies on private developers to build new neighbourhoods in the city? asks former Labour Councillor Declan Meenagh.
Vacancy Watch: Amid shiny new towers on St Luke’s Avenue, a vacant council-owned site grows weeds
Councillors blocked the site’s sale to a developer in 2018, and the council said recently it’s not suitable for use as a park. So what will become of it?
The NTA has chosen a company to bring in contactless fare payments on buses, trains and trams
It has given the job of installing a “next generation” ticketing system to Spanish defence and technology company Indra.
Efforts continue to take the job of regulating Dublin Airport noise away from Fingal County Council
The council is too entangled with the airport to be independent, critics say. Labour TD Duncan Smith has introduced a bill to give the EPA the job instead.