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.
These were among the issues that Dublin city councillors discussed at a meeting of their Central Area Committee on Tuesday.
The building, owned by Hammerson, provided shelter to the leaders of the 1916 rebellion and looks set to be added to the record of protected structures.
The menu, which changes weekly, now includes peanut soup, plates of beef, potatoes and boiled eggs, spicy chicken and roasted pork with plantain.
“Setting up a backdrop for taking portraits in the middle of Moore Street really gave me insight into how energetic and vibrant the street can be,” writes photographer Aarif Amod.
“I feel it’s going to happen now … Now, I think they mean it,” says Comfort Ibitoye, of plans for redevelopment of this corner of the city.
As the high-level Moore Street Advisory Group teases out issues around the future of the street, some traders say they feel abandoned.
Methods of serving periwinkles have changed over time. Traditionally, though, they are boiled in seawater and the fleshy meat is pulled out with a pin.
At their monthly meeting, Dublin city councillors approved plans to set up a new “cultural company”, discussed new rules for market-stall traders, and bade farewell to a senior council official.
Councillors didn’t get through all of their agenda at Monday’s full council meeting, so they’ll have to come back to finish it later this month. But here’s some of what they discussed.
In the debate around the latest, and earlier visions, for Moore Street, the voices of the small business owners in the neighbourhood – many of them immigrants – are missing.
“If you eat lunch in here you don’t need to have any dinner,” says owner Hamo Muhadzic.
Is the government going to have the Moore Street Commemorative Centre ready for the 1916 centenary? Some people aren’t too sure.
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