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.
Local residents and councillors have grown concerned about delays. But the council’s head of planning, Richard Shakespeare, says work could start as soon as late October.
Irina Lapshina and Jurij Pučkov have been given notices to quit. They want greater assurance that, after the landlord refurbishes, they’ll be able to move back.
Sharing its vision so far for the Player Wills and Bailey Gibson sites was a welcome first step, said one councillor. “But the devil will be in the details.”
Councillors in the Central Area met on Tuesday and talked, among other things, about plans to ask those in Stoneybatter where they’d like more plants and greenery.
The Rediscovery Centre in Ballymun houses four social enterprises with reuse and repair at their hearts. The team wants to help others pursue the same goals.
Among other topics, councillors at Monday’s monthly meeting voted to set up a working group to plot a route to bringing waste services back under the council’s control.
Here’s some of what came up when talk turned to housing at July’s monthly meeting of Dublin City Council: affordable purchase, O’Devaney Gardens, and a new housing committee chair.
