After a break, the three-carriage road-train is back to doing its loop connecting the castle and the beach via the Dart station.
“It’s effectively sitting on residentially zoned land, it just isn’t right.” A spokesperson for the college says it’s considering its options for this parcel.
The planned new homes are to be spread across seven blocks to the front and rear of the Clonsilla Inn.
“It’s an enormous problem, the entire basis of the zoning in the area was about the provision of a new train station access.”
A design team is in place to oversee their refurbishment, with a completion date set for March 2026, a council official’s report says.
They’ve gathered 787 signatures so far on a petition to keep David Kelly from being moved to a new route after a decade in their community.
A letter to the airport operator explained that an initial declaration that the application was valid was contingent on further examination by council planners.
“We haven’t abandoned the north county bike share,” said Stephen McGinn, the council’s walking and cycling officer.
With a new community centre, playground, traffic plan, bike lanes, and more.
Why can’t a litter warden also give a parking fine? This, and other questions, were raised at Fingal County Council’s monthly meeting on Monday.
They’ll mostly be up and down the coastal side of the county, with just four planned for spots inland.
But in the face of stiff resistance from council managers, they backed down – for now, at least.
Here’s some of what Fingal councillors have been proposing at recent council meetings.
The new budget, approved by councillors at a meeting on 3 December, is up 7.5 percent from this year, to €389 million.
The council is now looking to lower the speed limit and – eventually, maybe, install speed ramps.
The HSE isn’t maintaining them well, or doing necessary upgrades – maybe it’s time it hands them over to the council, tenants and local councillors say.
And there’s no prospect of Gannon Properties taking down the fences that block off a stretch of Glen Ellan Road anytime soon.
The move supports Morocco’s claim to Western Sahara, and will help finance its “illegal occupation”, a Polisario Front representative says.
At a meeting Thursday, councillors worried the fee increase would lead to an increase in illegal dumping.
It’ll mean upgrading bus stops, footpaths and crossings on the R127 to make it safe to get to the path to the beach, before upgrading that too, he said.
After digging by The Ditch, and pressure from protestors, ASL Ireland issued a statement Friday meant to appease. Protestors say it’s not good enough.
One councillor called the decision embarrassing. Another said it was “an utter failure to deliver for people”.
The school’s expanding, and wants the site so its kids will have space outside during the construction process.
These were a few of the issues Fingal county councillors discussed at their November monthly meeting on Monday.
Until then, the council won’t maintain and improve the public areas, fixing roads, cutting the grass on the greens, and all that.
They bring a relaxed vibe, and sing-a-long-able renditions of “Country Roads”, “Sunny Afternoon” and more.
The plan now is to apply for planning permission in the second quarter of 2025, councillors learnt recently.
The grand Victorian hall at St Ita’s used to host show bands, Christmas dances, and more, says Paschal Henchy, who worked at the hospital for 44 years.
Aidan Whelan plans to put out orange bins, ask people to put in bottles and cans, return them, and use the money to buy defibrillators and train first responders.
Here’s what Fingal councillors have been debating at their recent meetings.
Ciarán Ó Baoighealláin has tried to get Fingal County Council to intervene, he says. But to no effect.
Figures suggest that Luxembourg fund LRC RE-1 has been issuing eviction notices at a much higher rate than peers – and at a greater rate than in the sector overall.
“It’s totally unacceptable. Can you see that it’s unacceptable?”
Keane’s cottage isn’t listed, and a developer wants to knock it to build 100 new homes. But some residents say they’d mourn its loss.
The Portmarnock Adventure Club Hall on the Strand Road is only used by the local boxing club, three days a week.
“I want this one,” says Seoidín Hyland, spotting a hot pink bike. “It’s my favourite colour.”
These were some of the issues Fingal county councillors discussed at their September monthly meeting.
Here’s a sample of what came up at a recent council meeting for the Blanchardstown-Mulhuddart, Castleknock and Ongar areas.
“They just seem to be very much housing at all costs, and everything else later.”
“Absolutely everything was above board,” says Mark O’Neill, the founder of Irish Soup Kitchen Centres. But it has now closed, he said.
“Hub”, his latest album of stories told over ambient music, “casts a jaundiced eye on Ireland as a tech and financial services node”.
No record of a Fingal Coastal Liaison Group meeting has been published publicly since 11 September 2019 – although there have been meetings since then.
The county’s councillors voted through rules late last year that ended access.
For some locals suffering in houses because of the noise, it’s a genuine concern. For others, is it a cover?
The Riverwood Biodiversity Group has shaped the patch to tempt solitary bees, hedgehogs, and others. They hope neighbours will take inspiration from it.
It issued the owner of the Clonsilla Inn with a planning enforcement notice on 19 June, giving two months to remove the landing pads.
Fingal County Council hasn’t said when it expects the vision it is working on to be done.
Neither the Fingal development plan, nor the Dublin city one, set out where drone bases are allowed and where they aren’t.
Artist Alison O’Grady has been running Sketchbound on and off for 12 years now.
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.
Homeless since 2021, Michael Conway was granted medical priority last September and shot up the list. But nine months later he still hasn’t reached the top.
These were among the issues Fingal county councillors discussed at their July monthly meeting.
Darren Rogers “has an engineering mind, an architectural mind”, says local filmmaker Aidan Whelan.
In the official record, 20 minutes of presentation and discussion can be reduced to just two short sentences.
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.
But 17-year-old Shaun Dunne says he’s aiming for a career as a pilot, not in the media.
Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, Labour and the Green Party voted together to choose the lord mayor and divvy up committee chairs.
Now, residents must travel 18km to Swords, or 37km to Blanchardstown if they need to sign forms or speak with a council official face to face.
Of 18 recent social infrastructure audits, 13 concluded no more was needed in areas such as Howth, Donabate, and Swords.
Aidan Whelan’s 68-minute film “A Destination for the Arts” is due to premiere this Friday, 21 June.
It was built for Captain Steeds, who lived nearby in Clonsilla House, and whose horses were the victims in the Clonsilla Poisoning of 1887.
A director of the company that owns them says he’s been trying for years to build homes and an Aldi there.
Like the indoor swimming pool at the community centre, the developer’s report says. Only problem: there isn’t one.
These were some of the issues councillors discussed at a recent meeting of the council’s Balbriggan/Rush-Lusk/Swords Area Committee.
“And to watch a pitch like that lying idle is a travesty,” says Ronan Rasdale, an under-8s coach.
