Central government is looking at whether councils should be allowed to borrow more, to build more
The current restrictions do need to change, said a spokesperson for the Department of Finance.
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Seeking a louder voice, Crumlin residents look to start a new community forum
It’s one of three actions on a to-do list that emerged from the People’s Transition Crumlin project.
Council briefs: A new plan for Flemington, pushing for orchards, and more
Here’s some of what Fingal councillors have been proposing at recent council meetings.
Men living at Kilbride Army Camp while they seek asylum find the little privacy they have is being eroded
They now have to show their papers to enter – despite a judge ruling that a similar measure was overly intrusive a decade ago.
On Talbot Street, residents want a bus stop moved from outside their front door
The difficulties they face being heard are part of a wider problem, says one councillor.
More for housing, libraries, and events, in Fingal County Council’s budget for 2025
The new budget, approved by councillors at a meeting on 3 December, is up 7.5 percent from this year, to €389 million.
Council plans to green Dublin 8’s Golden Lane, to help it sop up rain better
Tree pits, rain gardens, and swales would help absorb rain, to reduce the flow into the sewers when it’s really tipping it down.
In Dublin, many new Indian eateries say they are “pure veg”
It’s an option that is welcome for some, but that drips with meaning for others.
On Capel Street, encounters at a barbershop birth an independent record label
“Everyone one that started The7 I met here,” said Tharick Benck recently, during a shift in the Vintage Studio.
Council manager says this time it’s really going to build more Traveller accommodation in the city, honest
“I’m on the Local Traveller Accommodation Consultative Committee over 10 years and there has been zero delivery in that time,” says Sinn Féin Councillor Anthony Connaghan.
Time for measures to get drivers to slow down on the Porterstown Road, council says
The council is now looking to lower the speed limit and – eventually, maybe, install speed ramps.
The S6 is bus route most often reported to no-show bus tracker for ghosting passengers
Of 740 reports of ghost buses since the tracker was launched on 16 November, 48 were about the S6.
An effort to keep open a small shop in an asylum shelter, which makes residents’ lives that bit easier
The centre’s managers want, instead, to give residents vouchers for outside shops – but the nearest one’s a 30-minute walk.