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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A documentary follows the ripples of the 1981 hunger strike to the California prison system
"The Strike" is due to be screened in Dublin, Belfast and Cork this month.
While in Dublin, a journalist offers a talk on using Instagram to document ethnic cleansing in the West Bank
“I try to make things easy for people to see,” says journalist Leila Warah, who focuses on one aspect of life under apartheid in each short video.
Could a promised scheme for stylish shopfronts change O’Connell Street?
To date, Dublin City Council’s shopfront improvement scheme has covered the Liberties, Ballymun and Finglas.
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Risk that more survivors of torture will be denied asylum in Ireland, as a vital service is frozen
While the pace of the asylum process has picked up for many applicants, the services helping them to make their cases have lacked the resourcing to keep up.
Council investigates chemical "attacks" on beach grass in Balbriggan
“It is not harmless behaviour – it is the premeditated, attempted destruction of a key environmental asset.”
Council identifies Clongriffin as potential site for a new cultural and artistic centre
A 2021 cultural infrastructure audit found that there was a big swathe of the northeast of the city that did not have any cultural buildings nearby.
Council looking into causes of small landslide in Strawberry Beds earlier this year
“The residents living there and people that use that road need to know that it’s safe,” says Fine Gael Councillor Ted Leddy.
Frustrated by longer wait for green man at Blackhorse junction, people dash across in front of moving cars
“I know the cycle of the lights and I’m like, ‘I should have gone already,’” said Niamh Stephens on Tuesday.
Why don't councillors talk as much about homelessness at meetings anymore?
For years, homelessness was a standing item on the agenda at most housing committee meetings. But, recently it hasn’t featured as often.
Council looks set to agree plans to revamp Mountjoy Square despite pushback from local sports clubs
The full council is set to vote in June on the plan to rejuvenate the square in line with its Georgian heritage, following 196 submissions to a public consultation.
Some Drimnagh residents want the council to buy the old, frequently arsoned, G4S site
It has planning permission for 113 apartments, and community facilities.