As the government blocks funding for major social-housing projects, FF and FG councillors point fingers at ministers
As many as 1,325 social homes in Dublin city are at an advanced stage, with planning granted – but now with no clear funding.
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Majority of council moves to force Fingal to get on with moving Donabate library to Ballisk House
A council plan to run a survey to see if that’s what area residents really want the building used for appears to have fallen apart.
There are changes on the way for the Bushy Park market
The council is planning to put the job of operating it out to tender, and also move its location.
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In "Terratoma", director Liadán Roche explores artistic authenticity and obsession
The short film is an eerie, sometimes frantic psychological drama about Alice, an artist who is haunted by a toxic former relationship.
Council pauses plans for social housing on Howth site, after price tag rises to €750,000 each
This isn’t viable, so another use for the site will have to be found, a council official said.
Councillors push council to fix up Howth railway station forecourt
The redesign has proven to be more complex than originally considered due to the matter of land ownership, a council official told them.
Council drops plan for new playground in Clonsilla
“There was a fear, I think amongst people, that if you provide additional playgrounds in the area that they act as magnets to anti-social behaviour.”
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A Dublin electronic artist moves on from frogs and Celtic futurism, to DIY bagpipes
Mel Keane took the stage Saturday as part of Dublin Digital Radio’s annual festival, Alternating Current, at The Complex.
A city-centre gallery hosts the subconscious of Richard Proffitt
Sculpting through assemblies of objects is the main aspect of his practice, he says. A scarecrow-like figure wearing a Mickey Mouse t-shirt, with cigarette butts, and a Madonna cassette, for example.
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With their funding halved, Fingal councillors join chorus begging for more money for tenant-in-situ scheme
“I just cannot get over that they didn’t maintain the same level of funding at a minimum, because it’s a bloody great scheme,” says Fine Gael Councillor Tom O’Leary, of the homelessness-prevention scheme.