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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After seven years, experimental funk octet Tongue Bundle prepare to release unheard music
Their new LP “Second-Hand Banger” offers an overview of the band’s oeuvre, including live and previously unreleased tracks.
Through his work, a “paint eater” seeks connections – to strangers, to his father
“I spend a lot of time, whenever I take breaks from painting, going to town, and always finding myself having conversations with random people,” Michael Flavin says.
In Clonsilla, residents petition a developer to save the chimney stack of an old lodge
It was built for Captain Steeds, who lived nearby in Clonsilla House, and whose horses were the victims in the Clonsilla Poisoning of 1887.
Brushing Up: A sculpture of a woman awakening in Sandymount
When the sculptor asked Sorcha Duggan to pose for the work, she went home and told her boyfriend, who said “No you’re not” – cementing her resolve to do it, she says.
Vacancy Watch: A row of six buildings lying derelict on Main Street in Rush
A director of the company that owns them says he’s been trying for years to build homes and an Aldi there.
Developer says it doesn’t need to build new community facilities along with housing at big Donabate scheme, as there’s already plenty
Like the indoor swimming pool at the community centre, the developer’s report says. Only problem: there isn’t one.
In Dublin 8, residents send canvassers messages with political doormats
Artist Augustine O’Donoghue and author Conor McCabe made 50 of the mats and gave them away on Meath Street recently. From there, they spread out.
In Sandymount, a dream of reviving the old pier and baths
An architect’s drawn up plans, and a councillor has tabled a motion – but it’s unclear if the council is interested.
Fingal Briefs: Keeping tenants in-situ, affordable housing at St Ita’s, and battling coastal erosion
These were some of the issues councillors discussed at a recent meeting of the council’s Balbriggan/Rush-Lusk/Swords Area Committee.
Council Briefs: A new park for Portobello Harbour, pedestrianising South William Street, and arsons at Sean Moore Park
These were some of the issues Dublin city councillors on the South East Area Committee discussed on Monday.
In Skerries, flooding leaves much-needed GAA pitch unusable for much of the year
“And to watch a pitch like that lying idle is a travesty,” says Ronan Rasdale, an under-8s coach.
Despite all the dereliction, only five properties in Balbriggan are on the derelict sites register
But Fingal County Council says that in January it started a review of properties across the county.