Start of construction at Guinness Quarter is near, says developer – as it seeks tweaks to planning permission
Proposed changes include dropping three-bedroom homes, in favour of more smaller ones in the block of future social housing.
Start of construction at Guinness Quarter is near, says developer – as it seeks tweaks to planning permission
Proposed changes include dropping three-bedroom homes, in favour of more smaller ones in the block of future social housing.
Some locals push for beach-side bypass at Sutton – but it would cut through a Special Preservation Area
It would be a bypass to the Station Road, and consist of a road, cycleway and footpath, according to a petition that was launched by the campaign on 27 July.
Councillors question whether new Fingal gas plant would serve households, or data centres
Peaking plants such as these are needed to replace dirtier coal, gas and peat – and balance out the fluctuating supply from renewables on the grid, says Ireland's climate action plan.
A new network seeks to encourage Black and immigrant workers to join trade unions
One of the most pressing issues continues to be the impact of Ireland's work-permit regime, which make it risky for employees to speak out if exploited.
Council gives nod to new apart-hotel in Blackpitts, to add to the 9,600 hotel beds within walking distance
"There is just a ridiculous overconcentration of short-term accommodation," in the Blackpitts and Newmarket Square area, says Sinn Féin Councillor Ciaran Ó Meachair.
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Council tenants struggle with poor conditions, while watching modern social housing built next door
“They’ve no money for windows, but they’ve how much to fill this field with even more apartments and houses?” says Charlene Paget, in Darndale.
Delay to Finglas improvement scheme, as officials scratch around for top-up funding
Changes to the timeline are particularly sensitive because of wider concerns about a lack of council investment in the north-west of the city.
In the west of the city, pushes for small traffic changes are stymied by hazy timeline for BusConnects works
"If you ask, you'll be told this is part of the BusConnects project, we can't touch it until then," says Ray Cunningham, a Green Party councillor.
With new city bikeshare scheme on the horizon, attention turns to the future of the associated big billboards
Will they be gone? Should they be kept?
Council contemplates demolition of largely vacant homeless hostel, a decade after activists tried to rescue it
Once known as "Bolton House", and later the "Bolt Hostel", the building has a troubled history.
After a lifetime of scribbling on scraps of paper destined for the bin, poet Debbie Byrne went viral
She didn’t expect to become "Facebook famous" at 61. “It's gas. I don’t like front-of-house,” she says, “keep the head down.”
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Residents near D15's "Chemical Hill" want better information about emergency alerts
A false alarm from the Barclay Crop Protection plant near Mulhuddart in July confused some locals, who didn't know what it was, what it meant, or how to get more information.
The government wants to add “integration” conditions to the citizenship process. Will it up its own game, too?
People on low incomes, with unstable housing, are bound to be most affected by more stringent policies for citizenship, says Lucky Khambule of the Movement of Asylum Seekers Ireland (MASI).
No on-street parking permits for city apartment-dwellers, council managers say
On the contrary, apartments have limited parking to nudge people away from cars – and the council should hold the line on that, and introduce other nudges too, some transport committee members suggested.
Fingal councillors say they want a stronger role in setting how the council's money is spent
This is something the government's local democracy taskforce recommended in its report, published in March.
Fingal councillors approve €9 million infrastructure plan for new employment zone
Two townlands west of Balbriggan – Stephenstown and Folsktown Little – could provide up to 1,200 jobs in the future, according to the council's plans for them.
Dublin City Council, again, bans poster to spare US president's feelings
Even a version which made no direct reference to Trump and removed his image, and simply read: “No welcome for warmongers” was turned down.
Despite angry row at City Hall, local councillors all back proposed Finglas boxing club move
Councillors traded insults at their monthly meeting Monday. The reason is rooted in council procedures, which most councillors want changed.
Council's effort to install bike bunkers is facing pushback from car owners
"As you can imagine, you've got 20 parking spaces, and we come along and say we're going to take out two of them or something like that to give spaces for people on bikes, it doesn't go down particularly well."
It's time to commemorate the 14th-century Bruce campaign in Castleknock, councillor says
But exactly how significant the events at Castleknock were in this curious interlude in medieval history is debatable, said Christine Baker, Fingal's heritage officer.
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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.