Airbnb has targeted council employees with online adverts. Does that count as lobbying?
“Just because it’s digital, and not over coffee, doesn’t mean it’s not,” says Niamh Kirk, an associate professor at the University of Limerick.
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Airbnb has targeted council employees with online adverts. Does that count as lobbying?
“Just because it’s digital, and not over coffee, doesn’t mean it’s not,” says Niamh Kirk, an associate professor at the University of Limerick.
In East Wall, a long-vacant site is looking more likely to become a community garden
A delay in a railway project means Iarnród Éireann won’t need it for a couple more years. “That was the only stumbling block, that it would be required back very shortly.”
The names of some new developments are too boring, councillors say
Church Mews, Church View or Church Place? Not good enough, said independent Councillor Cieran Perry.
Remembering Cathleen O'Neill, who beat down a path for other women
“A force bigger than life itself,” said a eulogy by O’Neill’s friend Carmel Jennings. “Working-class warrior,” said Rita Fagan, another friend of O’Neill’s.
No clear road to lower insurance, or reopening, for Dublin’s motorcyle sports clubs
There’s a massive stigma around motocross and that it impacts insurance, and government support, says one councillor.
Tusla has failed to deliver on its plan to reduce the proportion of children’s homes run by private companies
“Having private, for-profit care goes against all you are trying to achieve for children in care,” says Terry Dignan, a spokesperson for charities that run children’s homes.
The mystery of the falling windows on Bishop Street
This week the roadway was again covered in shattered glass fallen from the Boat House office block there.
A grassroots movement to reimagine Clontarf pier is gaining momentum
“You stand on the pier and it’s different every day. The sky is changing, the water, the clouds. It’s the most wonderful facility. The whole prom is.”
Council shares vision for upgrades to Liffey Valley Park and nearby GAA pitches
Changes would bring more routes into the green spaces, as well as natural play areas, added amenities and upgraded pitches.
There are problems with scramblers in parks – but all legal motocross tracks are shut down
“These motocross bikes are going up and down the streets outside their houses because normally they'd have somewhere to go, now they've nowhere to go.”
Fifty years after the Vietnam War, Vietnamese Dubliners peer back into the past – as they understand it
For some, life is an inherited ache to leave Vietnam and half-remembered stories and unprocessed feelings embodied in what their grandparents said, or didn’t say, about the past.
There’s been a lot of funding for new cycle lanes – but not so much for maintaining them
"People aren't going to use cycle infrastructure and cycle unless they feel safe.”