“A force bigger than life itself,” said a eulogy by O’Neill’s friend Carmel Jennings. “Working-class warrior,” said Rita Fagan, another friend of O’Neill’s.
Luas works mean no big Christmas market at St Stephen’s Green this year and some argue that if it, and others, come back, they should be done differently.
The sculptor behind the now-armless St Andrew was also behind the statues of Hibernia, Commerce, and Fidelity that sit atop the Bank of Ireland on College Green.
Each year, the government compares Dublin City Council’s performance with other local authorities’. Councillors are sharply critical of this rating system.
For years, Mary Gleeson has been pushing the council to make her daughters’ route to school safer. But there’s one thing she hasn’t tried: starting an organisation to advocate for pedestrians in the city.
At Dublin City Council’s arts committee on Monday, councillors discussed an early vision for a new interpretive centre for Bull Island, and several other issues.
“We’ve met with one or two people just to chat about the feasibility,” says Richard Guiney of DublinTown. “We would hope to be piloting this next year.”
