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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What's put the brakes on plug-in solar in Ireland?
There's resistance from companies that stand to lose out, but there are also some real, but solveable, safety issues to get a handle on, say experts.
New scheme to tempt parents to switch to re-usable nappies launches today
Dublin City Council is partnering with Voice Ireland on the project, which aims to help reduce the mountain of disposable nappies that are helping fill the country's bins.
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Pointing to process, council officials say they can't allocate bit of big masterplan lands for Traveller homes
"I think it's a slap in the face of inclusivity, of diversity of this city, if we can move to develop nearly 5,000 units and we can not even develop one new site of Traveller accommodation," said one councillor.
In Stoneybatter, an annual tour of local cats – from the gentle giant to the chicken thief
Those joining the cat crawl got a map marked with the cats' locations and names across nearly 20 households.
A debut album finds inspiration in an evocative object, the breakfast roll
“It’s an indulgent thing, a fry-up, rammed into a luxury baguette. It felt like such a symbol of contemporary Ireland, and the perfect identity for the project.”
In Donabate, locals complain that their library has shrunk
The town's library moved into Ballisk House earlier this year, but it's falling well short of what people expected, they say
Even as Ireland gets harsher with people seeking asylum, anti-immigrant groups rail against new asylum law
Academics and politicians say that’s because, for a small cohort, there’s an existential risk in admitting to their audience that the rules have hardened.
Council chief says his team gave wrong timeline, when they hurried councillors to vote on Mountjoy Square redesign
“I do believe in this project, but it is hard to stand over that when we were given unsound advice," said one councillor.
Councillors, after back and forth, vote to rezone lands in Finglas and Santry for housing
In both cases, councillors pushed changes to the planned variations that they said were meant to force the construction of not only housing, but other infrastructure there too.
Council should do urgent repairs for its tenants within five days. Why do logs show jobs taking more than six months?
It is not clear if the records are accurate, or whether a new system for tracking maintenance requests will allow tracking of how long it takes the council to fix things.
Council readies to apply for planning for new pitch at Donore Avenue
Councillors at the South Central Area got word that phase two of the big project in the south inner-city is ready to move forward.