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.
Housing
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Council cuts back efforts to turn vacant office and commercial buildings into social homes
Instead, it’s moving staff to focus on other housing projects that will deliver more homes, said Dublin City Council’s head of housing.
Advocates are pushing for survivors of industrial schools to get priority for social housing
Councillors face tough decisions as vulnerable and desperate groups make their cases for priority amid a shortage of social homes.
Should the Land Development Agency build some private housing on public land?
The government is reportedly looking into the idea.
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“Amid Ireland’s unending housing crisis, nearly 70 per cent of the country’s 25-year-olds are still living at home.”
Plans for almost 400 homes in Bluebell to go out to public consultation
The Land Development Agency is planning a mix of cost-rental and social homes at the Bluebell Waterways development.
Dublin City Council housing committee set to hold fewer public meetings
The committee’s chairperson, Fianna Fáil Councillor Deirdre Heney, says she wants to run more private workshops and organise site visits, instead.
Time for Trinity College Dublin to build student accommodation on land in Santry Demesne, councillor says
“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.
An Bord Pleanála approves plans for 170 apartments in Clonsilla
The planned new homes are to be spread across seven blocks to the front and rear of the Clonsilla Inn.
Judicial review launched over Dirty Old Tower that provides access to Clongriffin train station
“It’s an enormous problem, the entire basis of the zoning in the area was about the provision of a new train station access.”
Council lays out timeline for building flagship housing scheme at Emmet Road in Inchicore
Construction works to ready the site for 578 social and cost-rental apartments are now set to begin in March, according to a presentation to councillors.
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“Dublin is a ‘smart city’ – high tech, advanced, efficient, connected. Unless, maybe, you live in an apartment building or carved-up Georgian terrace.”
Housing Briefs: Auditor flags overspending on “rapid-build” homes, and the council plans to build 167 social homes in Grangegorman
At one site, on Bonham Street, 57 “rapid-build” homes took almost four years to build and cost 51 percent more than originally agreed, an auditor’s report says.