In the north inner-city, tenants of 15 years evicted so council can buy their home
Dublin City Council is buying 40 homes in the Northbank apartments. It is not clear how many tenants have been evicted for the deal to proceed.
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.”
The Department of Finance, with Revenue and the Department of Housing, is looking at a new definition, said a spokesperson.
Nine of those are in unregistered facilities.
“You’re building the next generation of long-term homeless,” says one charity official.
The Department of Transport says it’s working on a home-charging solution for those who don’t have driveways.
“The implementation has fallen at the first hurdle, which was government funding,” says Social Democrats TD Gary Gannon.
But a spokesperson for the charity said the position articulated by its deputy chief operations officer at a council meeting recently is not its current policy.
The council bought the mill in 2018, and spent €2 million on stabilisation works. Lately, locals have noticed the project seems to have stalled.
Some residents in the north inner-city are worried about how the new line will impact them, as their homes are very close to the tracks.
In 2024, 29 percent of housing applications to councils across the country – for 5,626 households – were closed due to the applicant’s failure to communicate.