In the north inner-city, tenants of 15 years evicted so council can buy their home
Dublin City Council is buying 40 homes in the Northbank apartments. It is not clear how many tenants have been evicted for the deal to proceed.
That’s not good, says Fine Gael TD Ciarán Cannon. “There is no one central repository for all the data we need to make our roads safer.”
“You’ve got to question the government’s resolve,” Social Democrats TD Cian O’Callaghan says. “They don’t seem to be showing much resolve.”
It’ll be 16 November from 8pm at Doyle’s Corner in Phibsboro. Teams of four, with prizes for the winner and a mid-quiz raffle.
A council committee voted to start a process to close off the public right of way on Hardwicke Street, which would set the stage for putting up fences and gates.
Green space per person in the Liberties has nudged up from 0.68sqm in 2015 to 1.68sqm now, says Deirdre Prince, a Dublin City Council landscape architect.
But what is it about this patch of the city – which many might think of as part of Harold’s Cross – that makes it so cycle-y?
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.