Years after promise of a new integration strategy, Dublin City Council still doesn’t have one
There’s a desperate need for a roadmap to improve efforts to help people navigate immigrant life, and connect, say councillors and community workers.
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Council unveils plans for new library to serve Drimnagh and Crumlin
The 841sqm complex would sit between Crumlin Road and Rafters Lane, and include the old two-storey Ardscoil Éanna building – and a new building as well.
Maze of fences to stay months longer near Mount Street Lower
They were installed to keep people from camping there, while waiting for better shelter – or decisions on their asylum cases.
Artists cancel exhibition at the Central Bank over its approval of prospectus for Israeli bonds
It says it was required to do so under EU law. But genocide is just wrong, says artist Steven Doody.
Is it fair to have a fast-track and a slow-track for processing asylum claims?
Fast-trackers are rushed through in a bit less than three months, while other people are left in suspense for 18 months.
Council officials present plans to retrofit flat complexes in south inner-city
At a recent meeting, they detailed plans to modernise Glovers Court, and part of Pearse House, without tearing them down.
If Cork city can have community wardens with the power to enforce parking and littering laws, why can’t Dublin city?
“They’re extremely effective,” Fine Gael Councillor Shane O’Callaghan said of Cork city’s community wardens.
Tenants in poor conditions across the city complain about the same property manager
They’ve pleaded for Martin Property Consultants to deal properly with leaking sewage, mould, cracked walls, and dripping ceilings.
It’s time for a new strategy for how the council deals with trees, councillors say
Roots breaking footpaths create dangers, and leaves overshadowing roofs prevent solar panels installations, among other issues, they said at a recent meeting.
Councillors cool to idea of CCTV as solution to illegal dumping in city centre
They’ve waited for a code on how they can be used and, at a meeting on Tuesday, got the details – and didn’t like what they learned.
In Portmarnock, a call for the council to buy and open up an underused community hall
The Portmarnock Adventure Club Hall on the Strand Road is only used by the local boxing club, three days a week.
In Fingal, cycling lessons get kids with disabilities pedalling
“I want this one,” says Seoidín Hyland, spotting a hot pink bike. “It’s my favourite colour.”
Council Briefs: Letting media back into Fingal SPCs, removing parklets in Howth and Malahide, and swimming pool plans
These were some of the issues Fingal county councillors discussed at their September monthly meeting.