Councillors back renewed focus on serious anti-social behaviour in council housing complexes
“We know there are issues,” said Dublin City Council Assistant Chief Executive Mick Mulhern, at a recent housing committee meeting.
Councillors back renewed focus on serious anti-social behaviour in council housing complexes
“We know there are issues,” said Dublin City Council Assistant Chief Executive Mick Mulhern, at a recent housing committee meeting.
When the council’s Markievicz leisure centre moves to Irishtown, it’ll leave a pool-sized hole in town
In a council survey, only 62 percent of centre members said they’d travel to its new location.
Fingal lays out latest plans to “hold the line” against coastal erosion in Portrane
Emergency works should start soon, said a council official on 19 March – followed, if permitted, by a more extensive intervention.
Trained teachers of in-demand subjects shut out of jobs because of where adverts are posted
Schools don’t advertise vacancies on platforms the Department of Employment requires for its work permit process for those from outside the EEA.
Looking ahead, Dublin City Council has been mapping where the next decade’s housing should go
One outstanding question, though, is whether any of the sites it identifies will be earmarked for Traveller accommodation.
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Works planned to upgrade Grand Canal Harbour, council report says
The area is in need of a lot of maintenance, says Michael Ingle of the Grand Canal Residents Association.
In Portobello, the Bollywood Bar offers karaoke and cricket
There’s DJ nights, comedy open-mic nights, musical performances. And plans for board games and movie nights.
As campaigns gear up in central Dublin, how sound is the voter register?
It isn’t hard to find people registered to the wrong addresses and zombie entries.
Council outlines plans to get moving again on 2,000 homes stalled by central government u-turn
The Department of Housing was reviewing whether it was good value to develop them under public private partnership. It isn’t, it decided.
Inmates still earn just 50 cents for a day’s work in Irish prisons
While costs of basic items have risen, including snacks bought from the prison shop to fill long gaps between meals.
Eight-year-old Cabra resident calls on council to provide a pump track in his local park
“Pump tracks are very fun,” says Oran Wood, who discovered the hilly tracks while visiting his cousins. Pump tracks can be traversed on bikes, skateboards, skates and scooters.
Cabra Intreo centre was closed with little planning, or evaluation of how it would impact its users
But there’s still no sign it’s going to reopen – and now the nearest one’s 3km away, on Parnell Street.
Council continues to push hotel bed tax for Dublin
A €2 per bed per night tax could raise more than €17.5 million a year, according to a council analysis.
Things To Do: Take a dive in Meeting House Square, go on an artistic walkabout, pick up an urban field guide, find poetry in plastic
Our latest recommendations, and community noticeboard listings.
In Ringsend, 176 new social homes sit empty due to funding paperwork delays
There are over 1,000 households on the council’s social housing lists for the area.
Gardaí likely knew Kurdish woman, whose body was returned to Turkey, wished to be buried in Ireland
Gardaí referred queries to the Department of Justice, which hasn’t addressed questions about details of the case.
In Howth, council plans to charge for parking on Harbour Road
Drivers would also be limited to leaving their cars in spots on the road for a maximum of three hours.
Council looks to trial moves to make Balrothery friendlier for cyclists and pedestrians
The new active travel plan for the village, which sits about 2.5km south of Balbriggan's town centre, includes a one-way system, among other measures.
Growing Women’s Sheds in Swords and Balbriggan are looking for permanent homes
There’s lots of demand for facilities but council doesn’t have any buildings or sites available right now, said a council official at a recent meeting.
Tusla says it's an offence to run an unregistered children’s home, but it places children in them anyways
So how does it square the circle?
An Israeli fund backs one of Ireland’s biggest landlords, but who else?
As the government courts more international money for Ireland’s rental sector, tenants say they want more transparency around who they are renting from.
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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.