Dublin councils are to look at buying or building homeless hostels
“We have an over-reliance on the private sector, it is expensive, it is poor value for money,” says Mary Hayes, director of the Dublin Region Homeless Executive.
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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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We recently ran an article, “In Dublin, a Neighbourhood Boundary Is Sometimes More a Feeling Then a Line”, which made us wonder: could we draw the boundaries of our own areas – could our readers?
In this month’s print edition, we included maps and asked people to give it a try and send us their efforts, which we posted in a Twitter thread. Now, Emmet Ó Briain and CivicTech.ie have teamed up to bring the game properly online. Give it a try here!
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