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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“My four-year-old son in Merrion Square Park’s playground at 9.30am.”
Secret rules and informal agreements raise questions of fairness and hamper effectiveness of parking enforcement in the city
With Dublin City Council’s current parking-enforcement contract with DSPS due to end before long, some councillors have called for a new approach.
Landlord behind Swords evictions has issued a steady drip of similar notices across its properties
Between October 2022 and June 2023, 89 households renting from subsidiaries of LRC RE-1 got similar notices, Residential Tenancies Board figures show.
We’ve expanded to provide some coverage of Fingal now, in addition to Dublin city
If you have suggestions and tips for things we should look into, we’d be grateful if you sent them to our editor, at lois@dublininquirer.com.
Why did so many of Dublin’s trees topple during Storm Betty?
Dublin City Council is now assessing 4,000 trees and will cut down any that pose a danger, says Fergus O’Carroll, a parks superintendent.
Director of DRHE apologises to homeless woman who was assaulted by a staff member in a hostel
The woman, who was punched, said Friday she is sleeping on the streets now, and hasn’t been consulted about any investigation into the incident.
Families fear becoming homeless again as government fails to pay its part of their rent
“If I lose this place there is nowhere else to go,” says Patrycja Pawlak. “It’s so worrying.”
When far out to sea, in shark-infested waters, ask for help, a new show at the Tallaght Theatre emphasises
Eoin Ryan’s one-man show, “Trawled”, is based on his harrowing experience working on a fishing boat in the Coral Sea, off Australia.
Council shopping for vacant commercial buildings in the city, to turn into social homes
It has funding and plans in place for an old bank on North Circular Road and a former antiques showroom on Capel Street.
Council outlines further details of proposed major upgrades to Ward Valley Park in Swords
A performance space, upgraded playing fields, changing facilities, restoration of the old canal, a destination play area, and more.
Councillors look for strategies to avoid overzealous hedge cutting in Howth
An August effort to trim back vegetation to clear the tramway trail went way too far, locals say – and the council admits.
Would getting rid of Gardai’s role in registering immigration statuses get rid of one point of friction with immigrants?
The Department of Justice has a plan to transfer the task from the Gardaí to a civilian Immigration Service Delivery team – but hasn’t done it yet.