As the government blocks funding for major social-housing projects, FF and FG councillors point fingers at ministers
As many as 1,325 social homes in Dublin city are at an advanced stage, with planning granted – but now with no clear funding.
As the government blocks funding for major social-housing projects, FF and FG councillors point fingers at ministers
As many as 1,325 social homes in Dublin city are at an advanced stage, with planning granted – but now with no clear funding.
In the Liberties, an Argentine bakery is multiplying with a new café they plan to keep open in the evenings
“The area does get quieter in the evening. But we hope the new place will draw people,” says Florencia Pugliese.
In Whitehall, a GAA car park is used to grow potatoes and mint
“People come in, take some spuds, some onions, whatever it is. It all keeps ticking along.”
No extra money yet for council to roll out actions put forward by Taoiseach’s Taskforce for Dublin
Councillors said that they feel the city was just used as the backdrop for a pre-election PR campaign.
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With think tank Progress Ireland, the yimby movement here is powering up
With help from a wider network overseas.
With an operator chosen, councillors wonder when the – next – launch of tearoom in Palmerston Park will be
It was already launched in November by Fine Gael’s James Geoghegan, who was then the Lord Mayor and is now a TD. But it hasn’t opened yet.
New book documents queer lives in newly independent Ireland
“Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same-Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922-1972” is by historian Averill Earls.
Glasnevin-area residents eye up “quiet area” status to stymie planned drone delivery service
“The IAA [Irish Aviation Authority] can tell drones not to go over ‘quiet areas’,” says Social Democrats Councillor Cat O’Driscoll.
For some workers, winning compensation at the Workplace Relations Commission is just the start of another legal journey
It’s not uncommon for companies to fail to pay – and it can be difficult to force the issue.
LDA says it's moving swiftly to improve access to Clongriffin Dart station via Dirty Old Tower
The Land Development Agency bought the 125-acre site on the eastern side of the Dart station from developer Richmond Homes back in March
Why has Fingal County Council issued so few fines for littering so far this year?
In 2017, the council issued 1,001 fines for littering. In 2022, the number was 443. So far this year? Well under 100.
A new academic paper looks for learnings in data gathered via collisiontracker.ie
Analysis found that issues clustered in the city centre, around tram tracks, roundabouts, blocked cycle lanes, close passes, left-turns, and heavy vehicles.
city folk
In Phibsboro, three boats sail alongside the North Circular Road
Big enough for small children to play pirates in, but filled instead with flowers, they sit in the front gardens of a terrace of brick houses. Here’s their story.
Behind an anonymous shop front on the Ballybough Road, an antiques restorer indulges his interests
Ten years ago Richard Adams took down his shopfront sign to retire. But, now 76, he has drifted back.
After 50 Years of Dry Cleaning Duvets and Tumble Drying Trousers, a Dublin Washeteria’s Cycle Ends
“It’s an old establishment, it’s part of Inchicore,” says Peter Keegan. “Another story, another chapter.”
On Aungier Street, Teenagers Line up to Buy Crystals
“It’s queues all the time now,” says Danieli Rangel, a shop assistant at Dervish Books and Holistic Centre. “I’ve never felt so overwhelmed.”
Community Safety
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.
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.”
The year-long gap in community-safety work in Fingal
The county’s joint policing committee was stood down last June, but the new local community safety partnerships aren’t up and running yet to replace it.
Council says it will facilitate community-safety forum meetings, following calls from councillors
“It’s important that we have a structure where people are held to account, can voice concerns and have questions answered.”
projects
Dublin Inquirer Summer School 2025 tickets are on sale now
On 28–29 June, we’re running five two-hour sessions aiming to offer skills and knowledge useful to journalists, and others trying to make the city a better place.
Waited for a bus in Dublin and it never showed up? Please tell us.
We’ve built a No-Show Bus Tracker to help document the scale and details of the problems of ghost buses and cancelled buses.
Here it is: our new cycle collision tracker
We hope you’ll use it to report hazards, near collisions, and collisions. Hopefully, over the long-term, this will help make cycling safer – and get more people out of cars and onto bikes.
Will You Draw Your Dublin Neighbourhood for Us?
This online tool lets you map your area’s boundaries, save your version, and see what others have drawn for the same area.
renting
With their funding halved, Fingal councillors join chorus begging for more money for tenant-in-situ scheme
“I just cannot get over that they didn’t maintain the same level of funding at a minimum, because it’s a bloody great scheme,” says Fine Gael Councillor Tom O’Leary, of the homelessness-prevention scheme.
Time and again, long-term tenants evicted and their homes turned into homeless accommodation
A spokesperson for the Dublin Region Homeless Executive said its priority was “to ensure there is an adequate provision of accommodation for people experiencing homelessness”.
RTB is working on a new IT system to process disputes between landlords and tenants
This comes a few years after it rolled out a previous IT system that was supposed to include this function, among others, and went millions over budget.
Vacancy Watch
Vacancy Watch: The former school of wrestling in Phibsborough
At the end of last year, the warehouse on the banks of the Royal Canal was added to the derelict sites register.
Vacancy Watch: The many plans for the St Andrew’s Court flats
The council’s current target is to knock and build new social homes on the site in the heart of the south-inner city by early 2028.
Vacancy Watch: Married Quarters at Cathal Brugha Barracks in Rathmines
“It’s usually disappointing for essentially a state organisation to be sitting on derelict properties. It’s a very bad look.”
Vacancy Watch: Amid shiny new towers on St Luke’s Avenue, a vacant council-owned site grows weeds
Councillors blocked the site’s sale to a developer in 2018, and the council said recently it’s not suitable for use as a park. So what will become of it?