Vacancy Watch: a big site near Fatima Luas stop
Even as the government casts around for new land to zone for homes, it is unclear when this plot will be built out.
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Fingal councillors vote to increase local property tax
So the council will have more than a €1 million more to spend this year.
For some immigrant security guards, just doing their jobs brings harassment
After the abuse he’s faced, Marin Glamuzina says he’s not doing well. Kayur Prajapati says he faces vitriol regularly.
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"I have — to quote the U.S. poet Keith S. Wilson — become a repentant defender of pigeons."
Locals worry the Meath Street grotto is about to lose what makes it so special
Two major hotel developments are planned to rise beside St Catherine’s Church on Meath Street, high over this place of peace and prayer.
In Clonsilla, a plan comes together for the Old School House and surrounding lands
The council has published a draft master plan for the site, and is running a public consultation on it until 11 August.
This year, Fingal plans to actually spend the money the NTA has allocated it to improve bus stops
Last year, the council left €500,000 in National Transport Authority funding for bus stop improvements on the table.
Fingal agrees to look at ending mechanical raking on some beaches, and picking litter there by hand instead
Mechanical raking “is causing an issue for the thriving dune systems which we should have”, said Green Party Councillor David Healy.
Residents on Sheriff Street want to know if there are plans to raze and redevelop their area
The chair of the city-centre taskforce, David McRedmond, wrote recently that the developer Ballymore has plans to “completely rebuild the Sheriff Street area”.
A group seeks to push the case for abolishing prisons in Ireland
Along with a new understanding of what a just society looks like, say members of the Irish Penal Abolition Network.
Homeless hostels in Dublin are “chaotic and lacking basic dignity”, with patchy or no coordinated supports, finds review
Commissioned by Dublin Region Homeless Executive, the review was done to inform the agency’s latest action plan for homelessness.
Luke: Documentary “Beat the Lotto” is a nostalgia grab worth engaging with
“That there’s some acknowledgement of dark things on the edge of the frame, in the moments between the smiles, makes Ross Whitaker’s film” worth a watch.
A new cost-rental apartment in Vienna for €681 a month. Why’s it more than double that in Dublin?
Can more be done to bring down cost-rental rents in Dublin?