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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Parents plead for traffic dangers around Harold’s Cross Educate Together National School to be addressed
Changes to improve safety are part of the planning permission, while a walkability audit five years back made recommendations, too.
With no plan for Kilmainham Mill, council’s restoration of it is “in abeyance”
The council bought the mill in 2018, and spent €2 million on stabilisation works. Lately, locals have noticed the project seems to have stalled.
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Documents say asylum law centre was in “unprecedented crisis”. The Legal Aid Board tried to hide this with redactions.
A spokesperson for the board said it redacted accounts that weren’t “evidence-based” and had not tried to “hide or trivialise the scale of any crisis”.
Fingal councillors rezone enough land for 5,000 homes, eating into greenbelt
“I feel like, if I don’t vote [for it], I’m voting against housing. If I do vote, I’m voting against greenbelt.”
Reconsider increase in parking charges at Clonsilla train station, councillors ask
Fingal County Council's "Operations Department has no plans to review or amend the recently adopted Parking Control Bye-Laws", was the response.
Portmarnock pool closed indefinitely due to problems with its roof
“Obviously swimming is a life-saving skill, so unless it is reopened, I don’t know where all those schools are gonna go.”
A new night in Portobello focuses on experimental musicians
Four bands cycled through the stage at the underground candle-lit Bello Bar last Thursday for the first outing of the monthly Off Grid Fusion.
Across the city, parents snatch their kids out of the way of red-light-breaking drivers
Despite years of talk, a promised national strategy on red-light cameras is yet to be published – let alone implemented.
Draft Kylemore masterplan disrespects the city’s oldest Traveller site, say reps
For a start, it shouldn’t allow for up to 15 storeys over the road from the bungalows of Labre Park, says the coordinator of Ballyfermot Travellers Action Project.
What’s the plan for the roll-out of Spencer Dock’s new Dart line and station?
Some residents in the north inner-city are worried about how the new line will impact them, as their homes are very close to the tracks.
For people who miss a letter and lose their place on the social housing list, there may be an appeals process at last
In 2024, 29 percent of housing applications to councils across the country – for 5,626 households – were closed due to the applicant’s failure to communicate.