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.
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Parsing the Debate around BusConnects in Kimmage
Shopowners worry about losing cars and customers. Those who back BusConnects say research elsewhere has shown changes such as these are generally good for business.
Sleeping in Homeless Hostels Makes It Hard to Keep a Job, Some Say
Phil Menton was offered jobs as a baker. But he couldn’t take them because of the night-time-only hours of many of the city’s homeless hostels.
Phibsborough Residents Worry BusConnects Will Dash Their Hopes of Calming Traffic
Some locals have been asking for things like lower speed limits and wider footpaths, but now they say they’re bracing for the impact of three core bus corridors instead.
Neighbours in Inchicore Make a Start on an Urban Orchard
Four of the trees in the public walled garden are Irish heritage apples – ones that almost died out, twice. There are plum and pear trees, too.
A Local Historian’s Latest Work: a History of Goldenbridge Cemetery
Liam O’Meara walks to a curved spot in the stone wall nearby. This is his favourite find from his research. A bench used to be here for mourners, called the seat of melancholia.
Here’s What Our Readers Want Local Election Candidates to Talk About Most
We asked them and got about 200 suggestions, some very brief and some very detailed. Now we’ve sorted them all to see which were the top-10 most-mentioned issues. Here they are.
How LE19 Candidates Say They’ll Tackle Dereliction and Vacancy in the City
When we asked readers what they wanted candidates running for Dublin City Council to talk about, dereliction and vacancy were among the top-10 most-mentioned issues.
Cyclists Have Put in 24 Legal Claims After Incidents on Luas Tracks
Transport Infrastructure Ireland is looking at putting in “sharrows”, which are road markings meant to guide cyclists across Luas tracks, it says.
Practice of “Respite” Beds Puts Question Mark Over Quality of Homeless Services
Feelings of immense relief when Gail Kelly and Brian Bolger got access to a “respite” room were replaced by feelings of total hopelessness when they had to leave it.
Is Homeless Mental-Health Team Still Not Accepting Patients? It’s Unclear.
The ACCES team, which provides care to homeless people with severe mental illness, stopped taking referrals in July last year. It’s not clear whether it’s started again.
Vacancy Watch: In Ballybough, a Derelict Site Rockets in Value
An advert for the site, vacant for years, says a feasibility study displays “the potential for a student accommodation scheme comprising 285 bed spaces”.
Donal: The Irish Vigilance Association and the War on “Evil Literature”
“There are only two alternatives in stamping out an evil: law or terrorism, and we had to fall back on terrorism,” recalled Fr R.S. Devane.