What would become of the Civic Offices on Wood Quay if the council relocates?
After The Currency reported the idea of the council moving its HQ, councillors were talking about and thinking through the pros and cons and implications.
Should we expand it beyond cycle collisions, or keep it tightly focused? Should we try to collect images in addition to text, or are there pitfalls to doing that?
They could apply for operating licences, and grant funding, and help phase out fossil fuel boilers in homes in favour of a central, renewable-powered source of hot water.
“We would very much welcome Community grit boxes being made available, in the absence of the Councils undertaking the work themselves,” says Jason Cullen, of the Dublin Commuter Coalition.
The sports pitches are long gone. The playground too. The community centre burned in 2021 and the council has left it a charred husk. “It’s so disheartening.”
Nottingham-based Murphy & Son, which makes the cork bags widely used in keg deliveries in Dublin, says it sells more to Ireland than anywhere else in the world.
Grotto House, on Tyrconnell Road, is now owned by Pathway Homes. A director said the company has plans for the site, but didn’t say what they are.
“If you put up a goal post kids could use it. Or just open it and people would sit there at lunch,” says Phil Bustard, who works in the area.
With Dublin City Council’s current parking-enforcement contract with DSPS due to end before long, some councillors have called for a new approach.
These were some of the issues discussed at a recent meeting of Dublin City Council’s transport committee, and on the agenda of its South Central Area Committee.
In response, a spokesperson for the council said that “An area’s affluence in no way bears influence on the strategic routing.”
John’s Lane East is now hemmed in between the back of the cathedral and a high retaining wall at the edge of an underused greenspace behind the Civic Offices.
A seat in the north inner-city has been vacant for nearly two years, since former councillor Anthony Flynn died in August 2021.