Ballymun and Finglas to get the least council investment in projects in the coming years
The area has been allocated just 2 percent of the pot of capital funding – not including housing – over the next three years.
Ballymun and Finglas to get the least council investment in projects in the coming years
The area has been allocated just 2 percent of the pot of capital funding – not including housing – over the next three years.
Council should look, again, at London-style system to force companies to use safer trucks in the city, councillors urge
The death of Johnny Santos Xavier De Abreu while cycling in the city recently was a reminder of the risk posed by heavy goods vehicles, a motion said.
A woman and her child signed up for “voluntary return” – a homeless shelter in Mauritius was their option
She and her young son sought asylum in Ireland. But besides a brief victory at the court, their case has passed through a carousel of rejections.
Fingal councillors vote to pause planned rent increase – but it’s unlikely to happen
“The setting of differential rents is an Executive Function,” said the council’s director of housing. Meaning it’s not the councillors’ job.
Luke: New film The Three Urns is “puzzling, haphazard, funny ha-ha, funny peculiar, and messy”
“The head struggles to make sense of it all, but the heart beats along with every haphazard second of it.”
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Councillors dig into plan for €3.88 billion in spending on projects in the city
Flagship projects include a new HQ for Dublin City Council, the redevelopment of Dalymount Park, and the refurbishment of the Fruit and Vegetable Market.
Fingal moves on plans to plug in play areas in Loughshinny and Portrane
A 2023 audit identified gaps where playgrounds were needed, and the council’s working to fill some of those in.
Council breaks promise, again, of new homes for Travellers at Labre Park
After 30 years, the finish line for the project was supposed to be close. The cost of the u-turn will be even greater homelessness, said the coordinator of Ballyfermot Traveller Action Project.
Dubliners get a bit more transparency around where some old clothes end up
Enable Ireland has the new contract to operate 56 clothes banks in the city.
What happened to the Dublin City Taskforce’s promise of 1,000 extra Gardaí and the total regeneration of dilapidated social homes?
“The implementation has fallen at the first hurdle, which was government funding,” says Social Democrats TD Gary Gannon.
Things To Do: Slow down, go to Gomorrah, contemplate a vanishing Dublin, move to Francis Street
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In radio in Ireland, the “accent ceiling” persists
On volunteer-run community radio, there’s room for people with all kinds of accents – but it’s rare to move beyond that.
Vacancy Watch: The site where Clontarf’s tragic Victorian mansion, Redcourt, once stood
Its story reads like a cheap pastiche of Edgar Allan Poe, a century-long streak of tragedy and misfortune, ending in a fire in 2007.
Works to begin in August to make pedestrianisation of Malahide’s New Street permanent, council engineer says
The expected timeline is the 18 months plus the breaks over the summer and winter months, said Shane McMorrow, at a recent council committee meeting.
In Howth, an artist looks to blur the lines between the gallery and the sights on its doorstep
Róise McGagh’s exhibition “sticks and mountains and huge lone birds” is on now at the College Lane Gallery.
Councillors “baffled” by lack of council plans to follow through on revamp of Clonsilla
A year ago, after much work, the council published a plan for how to revitalise the village. “I’m wondering why we all went to the bother, to be honest.”
Fearing effort to build social homes in Howth will stall, council prepares backup plan
Fingal has been working for years towards building a small number of apartments on a long-vacant site at Tuckett’s Lane.
A senior officer at housing charity Clúid said it wants to sell some social homes privately
But a spokesperson for the charity said the position articulated by its deputy chief operations officer at a council meeting recently is not its current policy.
A man wonders if somewhere in Dublin there are photos of his birth parents
In some parts of Ranelagh, his father was known as Tutty, in others as Pom Pom. She was simply Sheila.
Council pushes clampers to expand their hunt beyond the city centre, into the suburbs
A new contract, with new terms, should kick in from August.
Parents plead for traffic dangers around Harold’s Cross Educate Together National School to be addressed
Changes to improve safety are part of the planning permission, while a walkability audit five years back made recommendations, too.
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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.
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Brushing up: a misunderstood spiderweb sculpture
It’s nothing to do with Marvel’s Spider-Man, says artist Kathleen O’Brien. Its meaning is rooted in the history of its north inner-city neighbourhood.
With sea levels set to rise, should the council allow new homes and offices along the coast?
Dublin City Council is in the midst of writing its new development plan, for 2022–2028, which will include what kind of building should be allowed where.
In Rialto, a romance writer pens her 50th book
Romance writer Daisy Cummins works from her home office in Rialto, where she’s just completed her 50th book for the Mills & Boon publishing franchise.
In Deansgrange Cemetery, a historian excavates the stories of Irishmen who served the Raj
Shabnam Vasisht has sought out and researched the graves and stories of Irishmen buried in a corner of Dublin, who served in the British Army and administration while it governed India.