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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Council Briefs: A battle over rezoning ALSAA lands, a call for more refuges in Fingal, and giving owner-occupiers a shot at apartments
These were a few of the issues Fingal county councillors discussed at their November monthly meeting on Monday.
In Donabate, residents want developers to finally finish building their estates, and hand them over to the council
Until then, the council won’t maintain and improve the public areas, fixing roads, cutting the grass on the greens, and all that.
In Rathgar, councillors press for council to make good on promise to make park public
It’s built and open. But, the oasis in the Marianella apartment complex hasn’t yet been taken under council control.
Timeline for Fingal section of Royal Canal Greenway drifts further again
The plan now is to apply for planning permission in the second quarter of 2025, councillors learnt recently.
Poet, painter and activist Michael O’Flanagan works to preserve old Kilmainham one piece at a time
To ensure the now vanished shop The Orchard is remembered, he painted it. To try to save the old library building, he ran for council.
As residents of Portrane and Donabate campaign for a cultural space, a beautiful hall nearby sits empty
The grand Victorian hall at St Ita’s used to host show bands, Christmas dances, and more, says Paschal Henchy, who worked at the hospital for 44 years.
Council Briefs: Setting the local property tax, access to Balbriggan Beach, and pressing for community childcare in Donabate
Here’s what Fingal councillors have been debating at their recent meetings.
A new album from Asa Nisi Masa evokes scrolling the internet at night
“God forgive me,” sang Jack Fanciulli recently, as his guitar made a wall of feedback and a sample of an indistinct voice played.
Near Portmarnock Dart Station, growth of footpath parking forces residents to walk on the road
Ciarán Ó Baoighealláin has tried to get Fingal County Council to intervene, he says. But to no effect.
Artist John Carpenter captures Dublin city with strokes of his pen
With a pen, “you can’t mess around. You can’t rub it out. You have to go for it,” he says. “I love that bit of danger.”
In Dublin 8, an experimental theatre production explores the many desires of its performers
“Global Desires”, the latest from Outlandish Theatre, is scheduled to run at Dublin Theatre Festival this month.
In Porterstown, a proposal to demolish a 19th-century cottage fuels worries about the erosion of the village’s character
Keane’s cottage isn’t listed, and a developer wants to knock it to build 100 new homes. But some residents say they’d mourn its loss.