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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Does the council's site at Camden Yard really have to be offices – and should it be?
As plans for the council to build it out progress, there remains something of a split among councillors as to what would be positive, and what would be possible.
An uilleann piper, with one eye on tradition, takes to the big stages
In the last year, Seán McKeon has appeared around the world with Christy Moore, Elvis Costello, and other famous faces.
Based in the north inner-city, Mums Hub supports parents to get back to paid, and more flexible, work
“For many mothers, the issue is not a lack of ambition, it is wanting to work without being absent from their children’s everyday lives,” says its founder Karla Dragić.
Youth workers look for new ways to fight grooming of children as young as six by drug gangs
With younger and younger children being targeted, organisations on the ground have to respond, they say.
Council approves plans for Mountjoy Square Park, but there's still confusion on future of playgrounds and sports there
“The play trail won’t work for us,” says Geraldine O’Driscoll, who runs an early years service on Mountjoy Square.
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Department of Foreign Affairs won’t release internal records on ICE deportation flights via Shannon
“If they need to redact security information, then by all means, redact it, but not releasing any documents at all doesn’t instil confidence in the system here.”
It's time for Fingal to take legal action to stop Manna drones flying from Coolmine base, councillor says
The council rejected a planning application for the base, but that hasn't stopped the company, which says it is still flying and "considering the next steps available to us".
Due to delays, council’s district heating project wasn’t ready to warm Irish Glass Bottle apartments
So instead of being kept cosy with waste heat from the Poolbeg incinerator, the apartments are using heat pumps, the council project manager said Monday.
Despite car-park fee increase, more people taking train from Clonsilla, Irish Rail says
The council increased fees at a car park near the station, and some councillors worried it'd push people to drive into town instead of commuting by train.
In Fingal, council raised rents weeks before telling its tenants what their new rates were
The council had problems with its IT system, which led to the delay, said Paul Carroll, the council’s director of housing.
Through her small Collins Avenue vineyard, a winemaker finds her family roots
It all started with a birthday gift from her son of two grape vines.