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These are some of the things discussed in a meeting of the Central Area Committee recently.
Vandalism to playgrounds is a problem across the city. Ideas to tackle it include providing alternative spaces for teens, designed and built with them.
There hasn’t been a plan since council managers’ proposal for a whitewater-rafting facility there bellyflopped.
The committee’s chairperson, Fianna Fáil Councillor Deirdre Heney, says she wants to run more private workshops and organise site visits, instead.
“Five years is a long time to be looking at a stump,” says Phibsboro resident Jonathan Healy. The council says it’s working on updating its tree strategy.
Of 27 actions, seven have been completed. And the number of people aged 18–24 who are homeless rose 33 percent between 2022 and 2024.
“It’s an enormous problem, the entire basis of the zoning in the area was about the provision of a new train station access.”
The stairwells are dirty and graffitied, with broken vents and rusted handrails, damp patches from leaks, and wires hanging loose.
Here is some of what Dublin city councillors discussed at their Central Area Committee, North Central Area Committee, and Finance Committee.
The house is number 34, famously occupied by Take Back the City in 2018.
“If they can maintain a skatepark in Ballyfermot, why can’t they do it in Cabra?” asked Green Party Councillor Feljin Jose, who had proposed the motion.
Media reports suggesting a planned ban prompted a protest outside City Hall, and condemnations and denials from councillors inside during their monthly meeting Monday.