Against a backdrop of policy shifts, Ukrainian refugee children embrace their Irish lives
Ireland is the place they started school, joined sports clubs – yet their parents worry about how changes to citizenship eligibility may haunt their future.
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A meeting about anti-social behaviour discusses asylum seekers in East Wall – without giving them a chance to be heard
“It’s hard for us to prove ourselves because they’re making sure that we’re not in the meetings,” says a woman seeking asylum, living in East Wall while she waits.
New walking and cycling link in Knocklyon hits a big grey wall
It separates Two Oaks, a just-built 590-home apartment complex, from the council’s grassy Dargle Park, and older area housing estates.
Vacancy Watch: the Old Schoolhouse in Clonsilla, on the banks of the Royal Canal
It’s been in decline for about two decades. Now, the council is trying to buy it.
In the Liberties, St James Parochial Hall remains closed despite locals’ offers to help reopen it
It’s the third community centre the area has lost in recent years, after Carman’s Hall and the Donore Avenue Youth and Community Centre.
Help us report: a quick survey for non-EU immigrants who fly with Ryanair
Have you been asked for a transit visa, when you don’t need one?
Council not happy with proposals for building on old shopping-centre site in heart of Ballymun
“Responses received do not present an optimum solution for the site,” says a council report.
Groups giving out food to people on the streets would need to get permits under council plan
Meanwhile, those groups, like the Muslim Sisters of Éire, which runs a food table at the GPO, are “being inundated with demand”.
Vacancy Watch: The Lidl site on Ballybough Road
Locals want to know if Lidl is still going to build a promised supermarket there. In the meantime, it’s lying vacant and asbestos fell off a derelict building on the site into a neighbour’s garden.
Councillors dig further into idea of a new 500-seater venue in the city
A centre with a theatre, a black-box space, and rehearsal halls could cost €25 million to €35 million, a consultant told the council’s arts committee Monday.
A woman searches for space to offer yoga classes to minority women
With Superwomen Everywhere, she hopes to reach women who may avoid yoga because they feel out of place.
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.