The owners have a plan to redevelop the site, and wanted to demolish the two houses, but the council told them they couldn’t.
Dublin City Council held a plebiscite on the proposed name change, although there were only two qualified voters on the street.
These were among the issues that councillors discussed at recent meetings of their North Central Area Committee and North West Area Committee.
Dublin City Council says that problems raised by tenants come down to maintenance and repair. Councillors say they run much deeper.
“I feel nervous, it’s such a responsibility in a way and the area has experienced a lot,” says Muirne Bloomer.
Its target for new social homes in 2023 is 1,931. It currently has 362 new social homes due to be finished that year, shows a council report.
These were two of the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at their January monthly meeting on Monday.
“We all have to tackle this journey,” says Joe Donnelly. “Now is the time to get on board.”
The move is based on research predicting a falling share of one-person households in the Liberties and the north inner-city.
Councillors are divided about whether the council should have allowed a developer to close off most of the public square for up to two years, in a part of the city with few open spaces.
The council intends to carry out a wider culling of street clutter too, according to the new draft city development plan. But the last plan said that too.
There’s a plan to transform a large old council depot into an enterprise centre with mentoring and training for unemployed people and social entrepreneurs.
