In Kathryn Milligan’s “Painting Dublin”, the artists are from different backgrounds, religions, and social classes. “What connects them is that they are painting the same city.”
Last week, at the North Central Area Committee, councillors got sight of plans for a development of 853 homes at the Oscar Traynor Road site in Coolock.
Today, the organisation is expanding to tackle environmental injustice by recruiting a solicitor to take legal cases on behalf of disadvantaged people and communities.
The theme of the exhibition is that no matter what is going on, if you have enough agency, or personal conviction, you still have control over your situation, she says.
Under a proposal between Dublin City Council and Hines, the Liberties could get a full-sized sports pitch, but some councillors are concerned with the trade-off of public land with the developer.
In April, the developers behind luxury apartments One Springfield Park went into receivership. In recent weeks the funder for the project, Cullaun Capital, closed up too.
ESB, the EPA and environmental consultants continue to disagree over the severity of the impact on the environment, and even on whether or not the fluid leaked in 48 different spots is hazardous.
A seven-storey co-living development has already been granted planning permission to be built in plots that originally formed part of the protected properties.
Turfing out two residents – and allegedly locking others inside – marks the latest round of conflict between tenants and those letting 131C Slaney Road.
