Planning go-ahead for soccer pitches and much more at Alfie Byrne Road
“It started out as a football project and it's turned into a game changer for the area and surrounding areas,” says John Hayden, the chairman of Belvedere Football Club.
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More for housing, libraries, and events, in Fingal County Council’s budget for 2025
The new budget, approved by councillors at a meeting on 3 December, is up 7.5 percent from this year, to €389 million.
Council plans to green Dublin 8’s Golden Lane, to help it sop up rain better
Tree pits, rain gardens, and swales would help absorb rain, to reduce the flow into the sewers when it’s really tipping it down.
Time for measures to get drivers to slow down on the Porterstown Road, council says
The council is now looking to lower the speed limit and – eventually, maybe, install speed ramps.
Annual Sculpture In Context exhibition in the Botanic Gardens on hold until organisers can find funding
“We couldn’t continue. It’s become a full-time unpaid job,” says chairperson Jackie Ball.
An easy-going Nepalese restaurant opens on Moore Street
Momo, pani puri and chow mein all feature on the menu of this homely addition to the underground mall.
In Portrane, residents of HSE-owned cottages fear for their future
The HSE isn’t maintaining them well, or doing necessary upgrades – maybe it’s time it hands them over to the council, tenants and local councillors say.
For years, a developer has kept a stretch of road closed off, clogging up traffic
And there’s no prospect of Gannon Properties taking down the fences that block off a stretch of Glen Ellan Road anytime soon.
In the heart of Rathmines, councillors eye up “underused” site for plaza, housing, Swan centre expansion
On Thursday, they backed a motion asking council managers to look at using a compulsory purchase order to buy it.
In Fingal, the council plans to hike fees at recycling centres
At a meeting Thursday, councillors worried the fee increase would lead to an increase in illegal dumping.
Improving access to Barnageeragh Bay Beach could cost €1.35 million and take years, a consultant told councillors
It’ll mean upgrading bus stops, footpaths and crossings on the R127 to make it safe to get to the path to the beach, before upgrading that too, he said.
Council says no grounds to pursue developer over failure to replace Dirty Old Tower at Clongriffin train station
One councillor called the decision embarrassing. Another said it was “an utter failure to deliver for people”.
In Tyrrelstown, councillors push to give more land to Powerstown Educate Together National School, for a while
The school’s expanding, and wants the site so its kids will have space outside during the construction process.