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.
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“Raging” at Landowner, Councillors Look to CPO or Re-Rezone Coolock Site
They rezoned the site from industrial to residential for an affordable housing proposal. Now, the land’s more valuable and the landowner is looking to sell it.
Councillors to Consider Proposal to Use the Council’s Spending Power to Help Residents and Small Businesses More
At a recent meeting they heard about how cities in the US and UK have used “community wealth building” strategies, with a view to emulating that here.
Council Briefs: Adding Flood Defences in Sandymount, Transforming Trees in the Dublin Mountains, and More
These were some of the issues Dublin City Councillors discussed at recent meetings of their South East Area committee and arts and leisure committee.
In the Liberties, a remnant of a motorway that never was
If Bridgefoot Street seems strangely wide for such a short city-centre road, that’s because it was once destined to be part of something much larger.
Vacancy Watch: Matt’s of Cabra on Faussagh Avenue
The appearance of the building and surrounding site are bringing down the area, some councillors say. A representative of the owners says they’ve tried to maintain it.
Providers of Purpose-Built Student Accommodation Have Been Saying There’s a Lack of Demand for It
Instead of reducing rents to tempt more students, they’ve been going to the council and getting permission to use it for short-term lets and co-living.
We’re Looking for People in the Rotunda and North City Areas to Tell Us What You Want from Your Local Media
We hope you’ll tell us, through focus groups and surveys in the coming weeks. And then we’ll try to work together with you to do it.
The System for Providing Free Legal Aid to People Seeking Asylum Is Broken, Some Say
Asylum seekers say some solicitors they are assigned seem uninterested in fighting their cases. Solicitors say the fees the state pays them are inadequate.
In Drumcondra, a shop holds a trove of old-school cash registers
Members of the Bolger family have been running Botanic Office Equipment since 1970. “It’s what you know,” says Padraic Bolger.
Council Briefs: More Bike Parking and Deliveries, and Increasing the Cost of Car Parking and Tolls
These were some of the issues that Dublin city councillors discussed at a recent meeting of their transport committee.
Council Briefs: Consultants to Create New “Vision” for City, and Councillors Oppose Privatisation of Employment Services
These were some of the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at Tuesday’s meeting of their economic development committee.
New Compromise on Council-Owned Land at Oscar Traynor Road Could Mean Hundreds of Social and Affordable Homes
But the homes would still be built by a private developer, instead of by Dublin City Council, as councillors had wanted when they rejected the last plan for the site.