Does Irish Water even know how much water data centres are using?
Much of the debate around data centres has focused on electricity, but the gap in figures for their water use has started to draw more attention – and breed mistrust.
Does Irish Water even know how much water data centres are using?
Much of the debate around data centres has focused on electricity, but the gap in figures for their water use has started to draw more attention – and breed mistrust.
Make-up of new board to guide city-centre regeneration suggests focus on business and property development
“Thousands of people live in the city, and it appears they have been overlooked,” says Noel Wardick, CEO of the Dublin City Community Co-op.
What's put the brakes on plug-in solar in Ireland?
There's resistance from companies that stand to lose out, but there are also some real, but solveable, safety issues to get a handle on, say experts.
New scheme to tempt parents to switch to re-usable nappies launches today
Dublin City Council is partnering with Voice Ireland on the project, which aims to help reduce the mountain of disposable nappies that are helping fill the country's bins.
Things To Do: Leave the office, hit the quays for a hooley, study the kitchen table
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Pointing to process, council officials say they can't allocate bit of big masterplan lands for Traveller homes
"I think it's a slap in the face of inclusivity, of diversity of this city, if we can move to develop nearly 5,000 units and we can not even develop one new site of Traveller accommodation," said one councillor.
In Stoneybatter, an annual tour of local cats – from the gentle giant to the chicken thief
Those joining the cat crawl got a map marked with the cats' locations and names across nearly 20 households.
A debut album finds inspiration in an evocative object, the breakfast roll
“It’s an indulgent thing, a fry-up, rammed into a luxury baguette. It felt like such a symbol of contemporary Ireland, and the perfect identity for the project.”
In Donabate, locals complain that their library has shrunk
The town's library moved into Ballisk House earlier this year, but it's falling well short of what people expected, they say
Even as Ireland gets harsher with people seeking asylum, anti-immigrant groups rail against new asylum law
Academics and politicians say that’s because, for a small cohort, there’s an existential risk in admitting to their audience that the rules have hardened.
Council chief says his team gave wrong timeline, when they hurried councillors to vote on Mountjoy Square redesign
“I do believe in this project, but it is hard to stand over that when we were given unsound advice," said one councillor.
Councillors, after back and forth, vote to rezone lands in Finglas and Santry for housing
In both cases, councillors pushed changes to the planned variations that they said were meant to force the construction of not only housing, but other infrastructure there too.
Council should do urgent repairs for its tenants within five days. Why do logs show jobs taking more than six months?
It is not clear if the records are accurate, or whether a new system for tracking maintenance requests will allow tracking of how long it takes the council to fix things.
Council readies to apply for planning for new pitch at Donore Avenue
Councillors at the South Central Area got word that phase two of the big project in the south inner-city is ready to move forward.
Kilmore West is still clogged with overflow parking from Beaumont Hospital, but is a solution in sight?
The roads are so blocked that a fire trick, headed to an emergency, couldn't get through a few weeks ago, said a councilllor at a recent meeting.
In Cherry Orchard, a park makeover moves closer – with a 400 metre running track, 500 trees, and more
It's desperately needed, said councillors, pointing to the hundreds of new homes planned for the area.
The RTB told a woman who is homeless that it will close her case because she can’t provide an address
Irina Artemjeva, who filed a dispute for alleged unlawful termination of tenancy, says, she has to move around a lot. “It's a very unstable situation.”
For two years, North Central is the only council area without a boxing development officer
It's needed to keep kids busy who aren't interested in the usual team sports, says a councillor.
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Barred by EU sanctions from exporting hi-tech chips to Russia, Ireland is sending them in heaps to Israel
Intel has a plant in Leixlip, and another in Israel. It's a major employer and taxpayer in Ireland, where its executives meet pretty regularly with senior government figures.
Gardaí’s budget for PR and communications has boomed. Is that good?
It depends on how its used, say academics who study policing – on what kinds of interventions and stories are pushed.
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AI is not just coming to newsrooms in Ireland, it’s already here
“I'd be amazed if it’s not used in some form everywhere now,” says Michael Marsh, the editor in chief for Reach Plc in Ireland.
Exhibition showcases works by Liberties painter Valerie Gannon
Portraits, self-portraits, highly abstract renderings of cityscapes, recollections of sights at Dublin Airport, and much more.
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.
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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.
Introducing: A Tracker Where You Can Check How Your Councillors Have Voted
We’re very pleased to be launching Counciltracker.ie today, which will let you quickly and easily see what issues your local councillors have been voting on, and how.