More than 100 HAP tenants in Dublin lost their homes after poor conditions flagged
“An innocent tenant, through no fault of their own, ends up back homeless because a landlord doesn’t carry out the works,” says one councillor.
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Council Briefs: Cleaning up the city, installing gates at Robinson’s Court, and the North Irish Sea Array wind farm
These were among the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at their September monthly meeting on Monday.
Council Briefs: Call for urgent meeting with Housing Minister gets no response, and delays in processing applications for HAP
These were some of the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at their September monthly meeting on Monday.
Council investigating deterioration of Baggot Street Hospital
The owner, the HSE, has a legal obligation to take care of this Victorian-era building of “exceptional architectural merit”.
Dublin tech company appeals council’s refusal to let it install sleeping pods in its city-centre office building
Councillors say what’s needed in the city is more affordable housing, not sleeping pods in offices.
If you report a car parked illegally in the city, it’s unlikely to result in any enforcement action, records show
In about 70 percent of cases, the council’s parking-enforcement contractor didn’t go to the reported location at all – or didn’t get there before the vehicle left.
In Harold’s Cross, a locally famous bird is immortalised in a new kids’ book
Earlier this month, Commandant Adrian Watson published “Bertie”, a story for 9- to 11-year-olds inspired by a heron who lives in Mount Argus Park.
Councillors back plan to name Inchicore square after Christine Buckley
Her husband says he hopes when people walk through it they will be reminded of how “persistence and patience can deliver justice”.
In Drimnagh, a push to reopen a park that’s been locked up for years
“It’s a real waste of public space, we should get it open as quickly as possible,” a local councillor says.
In Coolock, a missed opportunity for a lower-cost, lower-carbon heating system for the area
Data centres in the Clonshaugh business park are producing extra heat, but it’s not being put to use warming homes and businesses nearby.
Two plans progressing to give Dubliners better bike storage at home
Dublin City Council is moving to provide public bike bunkers, and the government’s changing rules to make it easier to install private ones in front gardens.
As rosehips begin to blush, Dubliners dig out old recipes
Along the Grand Canal, and in parks across the city, people are quietly gathering them to dry to make into tea, flavour gin, or add to hedge ketchup.
Flying drones are delivering food in Dublin, so where are companies allowed to build drone bases?
Neither the Fingal development plan, nor the Dublin city one, set out where drone bases are allowed and where they aren’t.