Dean: For Those I Love’s righteous anger cannot be faked
Carving the Stone is a gritty, gripping piece of work forged in fury and frustration at a darkening in the Dublin atmosphere.
Respondents mostly felt that the partnership provided a forum for inter-agency collaboration but that it needed more resources and better staffing to work.
“Chances are, in Dublin, if it has buddleia growing on it, it’s owned by the local authority,” says Ciarán Cuffe, the Green Party former MEP. “And that is not the way it should be.”
Social Democrats Councillor Daniel Ennis criticised independent Councillor Malachy Steenson.
“No, no, no involvement whatsoever, which is a bit bizarre,” said Eddie Mullins, chair of the North Inner City Local Community Safety Partnership.
These were some of the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at their October monthly meeting.
It’s time to shift strategies, some say, and ramp up lower-density affordable-purchase housing there instead.
“Closure of laneways in the city are only considered as a last resort,” says a council spokesperson, although the council has closed at least five routes recently.
Surrounded by hoardings, “this site seriously detracts from the centre and from the main street of Ballymun”, says Fianna Fáil Councillor Keith Connolly.
Councillors say it’ll probably be used for something water-related – and that they haven’t ruled out a lido yet, despite what a council spokesperson said.
It says it was required to do so under EU law. But genocide is just wrong, says artist Steven Doody.
“Absolutely everything was above board,” says Mark O’Neill, the founder of Irish Soup Kitchen Centres. But it has now closed, he said.
“The private rental market is not a solution to the housing crisis, most particularly for Travellers. Councils are also failing to deliver.”