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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Dean: John Blek’s aching folk music is comfortingly familiar
“I’ve found myself drawn to The Midnight Ache during the recent rainy days.”
Things To Do: Listen to the land, study the goddess’ waiting room, sing a song for Brigid
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Who gets paid €270m to home children in Tusla’s care – and how do they perform?
Three quarters of the children placed in residential care in Ireland live in commercial accommodation. Investors have entered this growing industry, where inspections of the largest owners’ children’s homes show a mixed record.
Lack of speed-limit data from Dublin City Council hampering “lifesaving” technology in cars
The council is now over 18 months late in meeting a legal deadline to publish a digital map of speed limits on city streets.
Required to be open, pedestrian route via Cork Street co-living complex is frequently closed
Councillors say the council has opened a planning enforcement investigation.
Why are 200 homes in Crumlin and Inchicore taking so long to build?
They’re the kinds of sites that recent government measures have been intended to accelerate.
Chatbots considered for providing legal counselling to people seeking asylum, documents suggest
The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission doesn’t believe chatbots are suitable “in provision of legal counselling”, a spokesperson said.
In Swords, a network for autistic people and their parents grows
“I can't sit around crying about what I don't have ... looking for someone else to solve my problems,” Caroline St Leger says. “I need to be part of the solution.”
For 50 years, Meals on Wheels has been delivering in Balbriggan
And 100-year-old Eoghan Ó Ceallacháin has been there for the whole journey.
Dublin-based social club is For the Girlies
The inspiration? "I was like, Oh my God, what's happening with my life?” says founder Sarah Ó Tuama. “Like, is this what being an adult is? It's so boring.”
A new council sports forum looks to press schools and such to share their facilities
Amid a serious shortage of pitches in Dublin 8, the OPW only allows one soccer club to use its pitch at the War Memorial Gardens.
Council’s plans for Mountjoy Square contested by those who want more sports facilities added
In 2019, the council abandoned a previous planning permission application amid similar tensions between Georgian restoration, and sports uses.