There is a bill moving through the Oireachtas to loosen which rank of Garda can apply to the courts for “anti-social behaviour orders” – also known as ASBOs.
Work on two bus corridors – Liffey Valley to the city centre, and Ballymun and Finglas to the city centre – is due to kick off this year. And that’s just the start.
Shabnam Vasisht has sought out and researched the graves and stories of Irishmen buried in a corner of Dublin, who served in the British Army and administration while it governed India.
Councillors will continue with the business they usually conduct in their committee meetings, but they’ll do it over email – rather then at public meetings.
Dublin City Council plans to hire an independent auditor to spot check conditions for workers on its building sites, councillors learnt at a meeting this week.
Some of the issues that councillors raised were site-specific, while others were much broader, focused on fears around the quality of developments that might follow.
At a special meeting of Dublin City Council on Monday, councillors filled the seats at City Hall vacated by those who earlier this month had moved on to Leinster House.
We’re looking to spin off this tool for collecting data on cycling safety in the city. Anyone interested in getting involved is invited to a workshop on 18 March.
Rather than creating 75 permanent social homes, there’s a chance developers will instead lease them to the council for 15 years, according to planning documents.
The state has long been criticised for its use of these notices, and the lack of oversight in how they are issued – particularly in a climate of poor housing and site provision for Travellers.
This phase, which includes 600 metres of segregated cycle track, runs from Sheriff Street Upper, along the banks of the canal, up over the railway lines, and joins up to Newcomen Bridge.
Jeffrey Roe is running a workshop at the TOG Hackerspace next month for those interested in making their own sensors, to track air pollution in their neighbourhoods.
