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 some of the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at their May monthly meeting on Monday.
A council committee recently backed a motion to ask the Department of Defence to hand over a pitch at the Cathal Brugha Barracks.
The plans for the Gulistan Depot site must still be approved by the full council if they are to move forward.
A local councillor says she believes cuts are coming. The service says it’s going “to conduct a full review of all of its offices this year”, but no closures are planned just now.
As Covid restrictions continue, and charity shops remain closed, makeshift book exchanges on footpaths and in parks offer some literary give and take.
Councillors discussed the fate of allotment holders pushed out of Weaver Square, plans for developing Cherry Orchard, and results of a traffic-calming experiment.
She’s inviting people to her studio at the Mart Fire Station in Rathmines, which is crammed with things she hasn’t been able to part with. “It’s like a form of therapy.”
The founders of the Carrot’s Tail plan to offer plant-based versions of comfort food like meatball subs and mac and cheese from a café next to the old fire station.
While Mountpleasant Avenue Upper is now much calmer, Richmond Hill has suffered. “We’ve solved one problem and created another.”
Some cyclists say if prioritising buses, bikes, and those on foot is the aim, this should be on the table.
The little street, long a cluster of affordable homes hosting students, artists and hardworking families, seems to be in the process of a change that is transforming it into a different kind of neighbourhood.
Some councillors have long wanted the room in the old Rathmines Town Hall opened up for wider use.
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