Through her small Collins Avenue vineyard, a winemaker finds her family roots
It all started with a birthday gift from her son of two grape vines.
“I try to make things easy for people to see,” says journalist Leila Warah, who focuses on one aspect of life under apartheid in each short video.
To date, Dublin City Council’s shopfront improvement scheme has covered the Liberties, Ballymun and Finglas.
For years, homelessness was a standing item on the agenda at most housing committee meetings. But, recently it hasn’t featured as often.
The full council is set to vote in June on the plan to rejuvenate the square in line with its Georgian heritage, following 196 submissions to a public consultation.
“If you read any research with care-experienced voices – every piece of research talks about the importance of continuity of care.”
“It's basically impossible to buy a house and start a family.”
Officials point to money, government grant rules – and GDPR.
“I think this is a bit drastic and a bit disproportionate,” says Martin Collins of Pavee Point, who called on the council to reallocate the homes to other families.
The Department of Housing says it plans to issue new guidance. But a solicitor says that for progress, the law has to change.
But even if its appeal to An Coimisiún Pleanála is successful, one of its owners has other, bigger problems: Cathal O’Connor has been sentenced to prison.
Archaeologist Patrick Wallace, who led the 1970s excavation of the site, said he would love to see the area fully excavated – but he doesn’t support the demolition plans.
“People are going ballistic,” says Gayle Cullen Doyle, on Tuesday on the phone. “It's really after rattling them.”