Locals in Santry count 16 big developments coming down the line. They’re worried, if they get no input, about what the neighbourhood will look like after.
After reviewing thousands of’ suggestions and complaints, the NTA has been meeting with residents’ groups in some areas to show them updated designs.
More than a factual account of the early years of Dublin’s police, this book is a tour of the foggy streets and dangerous laneways of Ireland’s capital.
The film is “a tribute to experience, those things in our past and present that made us and shape our future selves”, writes our reviewer.
While one residents’ group pushes to have the park restored to its Georgian-era state, others like it better the way it is today, football pitch and all.
“I thought, what a cool place to do a song. It was cluttered with all little nice antiques and paintings,” says Pearse McGloughlin.
The two young artists collaborate in an uncompromising strand of Irish hip-hop mostly being popularised by teenagers drawn to its short, punchy bars and murky beats.
Miscategorisations in accounts and a lack of transparency make it hard to work out what services, exactly, the council is getting for its money.
Mel Roddy opted for a supper club over a food stall because he wanted to stay true to the ethos of eating together with friends, he says.
“Tonight is a celebration of what we are in the Liberties, and they honour us by inviting us,” says Joyce Reid.
Councillors weren’t impressed by that idea – or the plan for all the social homes to be clustered at one end of one apartment block.
In years past, the edges of verges and greens were often left untrimmed because the council didn’t want to pay contractors to do it. It’s a different story now, though.
