It has issued a tender for a feasibility study. The documents include few details, but they do confirm the likely future uses for the historic building.
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From 2019 to 2022, people who ran HGV registration plates through the council’s permit-checker app threw up 1,013 verified infringements and 277 permits.
“It’s a great business to do, but it just financially isn’t rewarding,” says Zoe Poynter, who ran the play café, Little Monkeys in Killester for four years, before closing down in 2017.
John O’Reilly started with graffiti in his teens, and then eventually moved into oils. His paintings of car parks are on show at Glovebox, a car-park gallery, until March.
Nicole Dunne, who runs a foraging business there, says the nettles are up early this year. “The winter wasn’t as cold, so they came up too early, thinking it was near the end of spring.”
Councillors on the Central Area Committee agreed a motion that the council should pilot two such wardens, in neighbourhoods north and south of the Liffey.
Last year, the Arts Council bought four performances by Suzanne Walsh, the first time it’s bought a piece of performance art that doesn’t bring with it props or an installation.
