Nobody caught illegally dumping yet by new north inner-city CCTV
But the scheme is a success, said a council official's report, as that shows the cameras are a deterrent.
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Council Briefs: Failure to build Traveller housing, closing another laneway, and scrapping the Bull Island discovery centre
These were among the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at their November monthly meeting on Monday.
For autistic children, overcrowding and homelessness can be even tougher
But mothers Danielle Barlow and Denise Carr say their applications to the council for “medical priority” to get into social housing faster, were refused.
Is it time for a referendum on a right to housing? the Oireachtas housing committee debated last week
An inter-departmental group is going to have a think about it, and make recommendations in the first half of 2025, a Department of Housing spokesperson said.
In Cherry Orchard, a vacant council home is being used for a stables
The council should provide stables for horses and fix up the house, says People Before Profit Councillor Hazel de Nortúin.
Evaluation of north inner-city community safety partnership finds respondents unsure if it made the area safer
Respondents mostly felt that the partnership provided a forum for inter-agency collaboration but that it needed more resources and better staffing to work.
Twenty years ago, Dublin City Council CPO-ed a derelict building because it was derelict. It is still derelict.
“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.”
At a heated Central Area meeting, councillors clash over competing visions, and paths, for sports facilities
Social Democrats Councillor Daniel Ennis criticised independent Councillor Malachy Steenson.
Task force government set up “to rejuvenate” Dublin city centre didn’t talk to forum government set up to make the city centre safer
“No, no, no involvement whatsoever, which is a bit bizarre,” said Eddie Mullins, chair of the North Inner City Local Community Safety Partnership.
Council Briefs: Revamping Portobello Harbour park, building affordable housing in Ballymun, and protecting Moore Street
These were some of the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at their October monthly meeting.
In Ballymun, plans called for developers to build high-density private homes – but large swathes of land remain vacant
It’s time to shift strategies, some say, and ramp up lower-density affordable-purchase housing there instead.
Councillors vote to close laneway off Glasnevin Avenue due to anti-social behaviour
“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.
Vacancy Watch: The site in front of the National Centre for the Circular Economy in Ballymun
Surrounded by hoardings, “this site seriously detracts from the centre and from the main street of Ballymun”, says Fianna Fáil Councillor Keith Connolly.