More than 100 HAP tenants in Dublin lost their homes after poor conditions flagged
“An innocent tenant, through no fault of their own, ends up back homeless because a landlord doesn’t carry out the works,” says one councillor.
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Maze of fences to stay months longer near Mount Street Lower
They were installed to keep people from camping there, while waiting for better shelter – or decisions on their asylum cases.
Council officials present plans to retrofit flat complexes in south inner-city
At a recent meeting, they detailed plans to modernise Glovers Court, and part of Pearse House, without tearing them down.
In Portmarnock, a call for the council to buy and open up an underused community hall
The Portmarnock Adventure Club Hall on the Strand Road is only used by the local boxing club, three days a week.
Council Briefs: Letting media back into Fingal SPCs, removing parklets in Howth and Malahide, and swimming pool plans
These were some of the issues Fingal county councillors discussed at their September monthly meeting.
Path forward for renovating former Inchicore library and opening it up for community use
The council closed the building for renovations in 2020, and since then it’s just sat vacant, deteriorating.
In Donabate, council okays more homes despite concerns about lack of accompanying services and amenities
“They just seem to be very much housing at all costs, and everything else later.”
On Grand Canal Street, a new food truck offers Polish street-food classics
The menu includes zapiekanka – an open toasted baguette, topped with sauteed mushrooms, fried onions and melted cheese – and a Polish “hot dog”.
In Hartstown, a writer and musician imagines the eeriness of the Dublin suburbs of the near future
“Hub”, his latest album of stories told over ambient music, “casts a jaundiced eye on Ireland as a tech and financial services node”.
In Fingal, councillors call for more transparency in how council is tackling coastal erosion
No record of a Fingal Coastal Liaison Group meeting has been published publicly since 11 September 2019 – although there have been meetings since then.
In Dublin 8, a new group aims to represent the interests of local football clubs
The Liberties Football Alliance plans to push for existing pitches to be fixed up, and new ones to be built.
In Fingal, a trio of councillors proposes reopening strategic policy committee meetings to media and the public
The county’s councillors voted through rules late last year that ended access.
In the Docklands, a new art exhibition based around water, movement and journeys
“It’s all things that link to the port, like transport and logistics, but also centuries of migration.”