Vacancy Watch: a big site near Fatima Luas stop
Even as the government casts around for new land to zone for homes, it is unclear when this plot will be built out.
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A New Platform for Amateur Writers Who Want a Bigger Audience Than Just Their Mates and Their Mothers
Friends Eoin Lynam and Sam Moorhead, writers themselves, recently launched the Shorter Stories website.
Council Has Budgeted €1m for Pedestrian Crossings and Councillors Want to Know Where They’ll Be Installed
That amount of money might cover 12 crossings if they are simple ones, or up to just three or four if they are more complicated.
In Crumlin, Community Groups Are Seeking Spaces and 146 Sundrive Road Might Offer a Solution
Since 1934, the council has leased the property out for £20 a year, or the equivalent in euro, on the condition that it be put to “community use”.
In Dublin 7, Making a Map to Encourage People to Repair and Reuse
Local groups in Phibsboro, Cabra and Stoneybatter are asking residents of those areas to help them create a “circular economy” map.
Will Council’s Plans to Get More People Out of Cars and Onto Bikes and Buses Do Enough to Help Meet Climate Targets?
“It is important that we transition away from the private car and fossil fuel based mobility”, Dublin City Council’s draft development plan for 2022–28 says.
On Aungier Street, an Afghan Chef Dreams of Selling Fewer Quick Kebabs, More Traditional Sit-Down Family Meals
“If I can get a bigger place, I would prefer to have fine dining proper, served in a proper way,” says Wali Seddiqi.
Dog Owners Don’t Understand the Damage a Single Poo Can Do to a Bathing Beach, Researcher Says
It can contaminate water in an area the size of a tennis court, at a place like Sandymount Strand, says Wim Meijer, a professor of microbiology at UCD.
For 175 Years, keeping the trains running has been a family business at the Inchicore railway works
Today, some workers there are treading the same floors as their fathers, grandfathers, and even great-grandfathers.
Council Briefs: The First Water-Bottle Refill Station, an Update on Rathmines’ Gulistan Site, and Improving Playgrounds
These were among the issues that councillors discussed at a recent meeting of their South East Area Committee.
Cars Are Getting Bigger, But Dublin’s Streets and Parking Spaces Aren’t
Drivers say they buy bigger cars and SUVs to keep themselves safe, or to carry more people or stuff. Critics say they’re clogging up the city.
Will the St James’s Walk Linear Park Be Somewhere to Go, or Somewhere to Go Through?
Some residents who have been campaigning to make it a park, now worry that the plan is for much of it to be a cycle track, first and foremost.
In Finglas, New Version of Planned Luas Route Aims to Untangle Issues
Put out for public consultation 7 December to 20 January, the new proposed route includes some significant changes from the last version.