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.
Church Mews, Church View or Church Place? Not good enough, said independent Councillor Cieran Perry.
“You stand on the pier and it’s different every day. The sky is changing, the water, the clouds. It’s the most wonderful facility. The whole prom is.”
The mission is to connect people, and “get people to realise that they have a lot more in common than they have differences”, says CEO Sam Bishop.
“I was lying in my hospital bed and I just kept thinking, ‘God, please don’t let me die. I want to live to see the dump gone,’” says resident Annette Flanagan.
The county’s joint policing committee was stood down last June, but the new local community safety partnerships aren’t up and running yet to replace it.
The 200-page document recommends what facilities should be put in what areas of the county.
Dublin City Council says it’s not, but other councils have managed it elsewhere.
“The work isn't fully satisfying. There's a kind of contingent element, or an element that you know is only going to exist in a certain way at a certain time.”
“When you see Songkran in Thailand, it’s like a big water fight,” Chanthima Ostijn says. Not so much here in Ireland, though. “It’s just too cold.”
“We’re held to ransom Monday to Friday, from early morning to night,” says Dolores Kinsella. “I tell people all the time, I live in a car park.”
Storm Darragh damaged the roof in December. The council has said the “closure will be lengthy” – and pointed to plans for a new pool nearby.
Some local residents want to see the old St Donagh’s holy well in Donaghmede memorialised in some way. Damien Dempsey is one of them.