A new council sports forum looks to press schools and such to share their facilities
Amid a serious shortage of pitches in Dublin 8, the OPW only allows one soccer club to use its pitch at the War Memorial Gardens.
“If I can get a bigger place, I would prefer to have fine dining proper, served in a proper way,” says Wali Seddiqi.
“My opinion is that healthcare and immigration should be separate,” says solicitor Stephen Kirwan.
It can contaminate water in an area the size of a tennis court, at a place like Sandymount Strand, says Wim Meijer, a professor of microbiology at UCD.
Leaving bare dirt around the bases of trees allows water to soak into the ground instead of running off into the city’s overloaded sewer system.
These were two of the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at their January monthly meeting on Monday.
“We all have to tackle this journey,” says Joe Donnelly. “Now is the time to get on board.”
The move is based on research predicting a falling share of one-person households in the Liberties and the north inner-city.
But it has fallen short in some areas, according to the scorecard by Lighthouse Reports, an investigative nonprofit newsroom.
Councillors are divided about whether the council should have allowed a developer to close off most of the public square for up to two years, in a part of the city with few open spaces.
Today, some workers there are treading the same floors as their fathers, grandfathers, and even great-grandfathers.
The 21-year-old Dublin singer, “the city’s best rising artist … crushed it”.
The council intends to carry out a wider culling of street clutter too, according to the new draft city development plan. But the last plan said that too.