As campaigns gear up in central Dublin, how sound is the voter register?
It isn’t hard to find people registered to the wrong addresses and zombie entries.
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Council plans to revamp streets around the Victorian Fruit and Veg Market
There’d be wider footpaths, more trees, more cycle routes, and new public spaces with seating.
Dublin’s cycling hotspot? The “Terenure A” electoral division, census data says
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?
Councillors call for more ambitious plan for housing on St Ita’s Hospital site in Portrane
The HSE is working with the Land Development Agency and Fingal County Council on a plan for how best to use extra land and buildings there.
Despite plan that Balbriggan swimming pool would come before surrounding housing, it looks unlikely
While the Land Development Agency is expected to start work on the site next year, Fingal County Council is trailing with the pool.
Help us report: Do you rent, or have you rented, in Clancy Quay in Islandbridge?
If so, we’d be grateful if you would fill out a brief survey. We’re trying to build a solid understanding of how rents have changed at the complex over time.
Will you tell us what you want out of a revived Cycle Collision Tracker?
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?
Years after suspending the north inner-city drug task force, the government is trying to reconstitute it and appoint a new chair
However, the remaining members of the original task force are still querying why it was ever shut down.
It’s time for community groups to start thinking about developing district-heating schemes, council official says
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.
For disabled immigrants, a choice between disability income or spending more time with loved ones overseas
Leaving Ireland for more than a couple weeks a year can lead to a loss of already meagre income.
Fingal County Council’s planning to roll out community grit boxes for winter, but Dublin City Council isn’t
“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.
In Howth, a pipe band with no place to rehearse hopes to build a new community hall
“We’re really stuck for community facilities here. Not just in Howth, but in Sutton and Baldoyle.”
Near Blanchardstown, a housing estate has made a neighbourhood green into a playspace for kids – but want council help to make it safe
They want to fence off part of it, they say, to keep football-playing kids and their ball on the green, safely separated from the speeding cars and scramblers.