Councillors back renewed focus on serious anti-social behaviour in council housing complexes
“We know there are issues,” said Dublin City Council Assistant Chief Executive Mick Mulhern, at a recent housing committee meeting.
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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.
Cover image for Dublin Inquirer print edition #66
“I am greatly inspired by the landscape of my childhood, Mill Lane in Palmerstown and head out to photograph it as often as possible.”
In Finglas, the Council Plans to Build a Welcoming Place for Teens to Hang Out
It’s starting by running a consultation to ask local teenagers, and their parents or guardians, what they need and want.
Rose Plays Julie, Reviewed
Intimate and distressing, this film sees a young woman search for identity. Her quest reopens the wounds of the past and brings danger to her doorstep.
Council Ending Its Boycott on Building New Social Housing in Ballymun
For years the council avoided building new social housing in the suburb, in a push to bring in more private homes and higher-income residents.
After Lobbying to Get Coolock Site Rezoned to Build Homes, Landowner Instead Looks to Sell It at a Steep Markup
“We chose to buy this site to try to create affordable housing for normal people,” wrote the developer in a letter to a local councillor in September 2017.