Central government is looking at whether councils should be allowed to borrow more, to build more
The current restrictions do need to change, said a spokesperson for the Department of Finance.
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Things To Do: Meet the last Balkan cowboy, accept that Roy Keane has a cinematic universe, praise the basements of Parnell Street
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The gigantic umbrellas meant to shelter Meeting House Square are broken and their future unclear
They were damaged during routine maintenance in May 2023, a council spokesperson said on Thursday.
Council plans to apply in coming weeks for permission to build 153 homes at Gulistan Depot in Rathmines
The HSE has already put in a planning application to build a primary care centre on the site.
Apartment-dwellers in Fingal should be able to get resident parking permits for their area, councillor argues
During a debate Monday over new parking bye-laws, which raise the cost of parking in the county from 1 February.
Things To Do: Stay out late, admire a boxcar, hear an “agri-diesel” rock opera
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Even as Donabate’s population balloons, HSE cancels plan to build primary care centre
They’re going to build one in Swords, though, and Donabate residents can go there, a HSE executive suggested.
With glockenspiels and violin bows, KiiKO creates pop that is “dreamy and infinite in scale”
Hopefully it’ll create something like a musical bridge between Ireland and Japan in some way, says Emmy Shigeta, whose lyrics are sung almost entirely in Japanese.
Things To Do: Do a panto, lecture the kids on igloo building, view the Netherlands as a metaphor for life
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In Mulhuddart, 43 council-owned homes sitting vacant
Homes in Parnell Estate have pyrite and fire-safety problems – and for years, auditors and councillors have been pushing the council to sort them.
In Donabate, a closed pub may soon be revived
Cairn Homes bought Smyth’s Bridge House, along with the housing development Corballis East, and has applied for permission to fix it up.
Things To Do: Discuss the future of the arts, acquire merch, study the ethnographer’s gaze
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Under orders from government, Fingal plans to rezone even more land for housing
Council managers are on the hunt now for sites.