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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In Pelletstown, residents frustrated they can’t get their streets and footpaths improved as their estates are stuck in limbo
The developers have finished them, but years on the council has yet to take control of – and responsibility for – them. “It’s a major issue.”
Dublin 8 needs another secondary school, council committee writes to education minister
Residents have been campaigning for a new mixed, non-denominational school. The response so far? One’s just been built for area pupils – in Sandymount.
Ryanair staff required transit visas from Chinese residents of Ireland passing through the UK, even though they don’t need them
“I feel like they’re not familiar with visa policy,” says Huimin Ye, who missed her trip to Vienna to visit a friend as a result.
Council Briefs: Keeping Iveagh Markets closed, helping Botany Weaving stay in business, and battling weeds
These were some of the issues that councillors discussed at the latest meeting of their South Central Area Committee.
Photo of the Month: July 2023
“This image of the Pearse Lyons Distillery is certainly one of juxtaposition, old with new.”
Off Abbey Street, councillors reluctantly agree to start moves to close laneway
“It is regularly used for intravenous drug use and is littered with needles and other drug paraphernalia,” says a council report.
To get information out of council managers, councillor considers seldom-used “sledgehammer”-like power
Councillors have been asking for months why the council decided to put its plan to install 350 shared on-street secure bike-storage lockers under review.
On Francis Street, the council is testing a way to help the city sop up rain
It’s one of many measures Dublin City Council is working on to reduce run-off, and heading off flooding as the climate changes.
Scandal, vacancy, occupation – and now maybe regeneration – at a Phibsboro social-housing complex
A council committee on 11 July backed transferring the James McSweeney House site to the charity Cabhrú so it can knock and rebuild it – with more homes.
Two years in, new approach to making the north inner-city safer still without plan of action
In 2021, Justice Minister Helen McEntee announced a “community-safety partnership” for the area. It hasn’t yet finished its plan for what to do.
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Caught in deportation limbo for a year and a half so far, a woman waits, hopes and stresses
“I want to get my status and find a job to survive,” Wai Ling Chan said on a recent Monday, sitting at a table in the corner of a café in Smithfield.