Some homeless hostels are operating with just one staff member on duty
“That is madness,” says Louisa Santoro, CEO of the Mendicity Institution. “A single person is not a sufficient level of staff to run any homeless service.”
Rialto residents want more for their local green space, taken over by construction of the children’s hospital for years, than the council is now proposing.
These “refuge islands” are a symptom of wider issues around pedestrian infrastructure, walking tour guides say.
A team at University College Dublin has given sensors to households to track how much traffic goes past and how fast. The next step will be using that data to ask for changes.
Dimmers or shades or tweaking the angle could help, say some residents.
Work being done to hear more from children is great and needs to be built on, say some councillors and academics.
John Gunn misses the conversations with customers, he says. Those are why, in normal times, he still mans the counter, 26 years after he was meant to retire.