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Fingal Briefs: On Clongriffin Dart Station, handling weeds, and more
Here’s what Fingal County Councillors discussed at their recent monthly meeting.
Fingal Briefs: A playground for Hartstown Park, and community facilities for Avondale
These were a couple of the issues that councillors on the Blanchardstown-Mulhuddart area committee discussed recently.
Delays, mistakes and risk of data breaches at the RTB, according to Grant Thornton report
Some landlords and tenants who won tribunal cases were recorded as having lost, the report found.
Under new guidelines, there’ll be no more public consultations before trialling medium-sized traffic changes, council transport chief says
“The trial is the consultation,” Brendan O’Brian said, explaining the new Department of Transport guidelines for medium-sized projects.
Why are there so many boarded-up council houses in Cherry Orchard?
“I am dealing with serious cases, people screaming and crying for houses,” says People Before Profit Councillor Hazel de Nortúin.
Will the proposed new port at Bremore get Chinese backing again this time around – and does it matter?
There’s concern in Washington and Brussels about Chinese investment in ports around the world, and the strategic advantages this could provide Beijing.
What should the vacant upper-floor rooms in Balbriggan’s town hall be used for?
Council housing services? More space for Citizens Info? It’s wasted right now, say locals and councillors.
In Swords, an effort to help fish navigate the Ward River
A survey found that barriers including a waterfall were preventing the migration of fish up the river. The council wants to change that.
On Henrietta Street, memories of a Ghanaian family of anti-colonial lawyers
Two men from the Gwira family attended King’s Inns, one in 1915 and one in the 1950s.
Illegally dumped rubbish festers on streets the council says it cleans regularly in the north inner-city
Locals complain that it creates unsanitary conditions and attracts rats.
Could a hidden red-brick alleyway off D’Olier Street be reopened and put to use?
“You could have it like the Blackrock market, where it’s a hive of activity during the daytime,” says Brian Dempsey.
Congestion charges “not a suitable tool” for the city at the moment, council transport chief says
He suggested that a low-emissions zone for the city centre, and a pay-per-mile model for the Dublin region might be better.