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How Dublin city councillors have agreed to spend the city’s €1.69bn budget in the coming year
Fierce debate over the rate of social housing rents dominated the meeting, while funding for changes in the city centre, and spending on homeless services, also featured.
Luke: This Saturday, a film festival in the Liberties is showcasing comedies by and for kids
“These films, short as they are, show a lot of imagination and talent.”
Dean: Just Mustard still defy categorisation
On their new LP, “it is fascinating to witness how the band interpret what they see as more sunny and melodic into their established brutalism”.
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Council pushes forward plan for 20 new artist studios and a revived theatre on Merchant’s Quay
If it gets planning permission for the €9.5 million project on schedule, construction could start next September, according to a council official.
Appeal seeks to block plan for supermarket in long-vacant space near Fatima Luas stop
As of April, only nine of the 23 ground-floor units across the Herberton Complex were occupied.
Fingal councillors raise rents for tenants in social housing
The council’s draft 2026 budget proposed increasing rents from 12 percent of a tenant’s income to 17 percent – in the end, councillors went with 14.5 percent.
Who will offer early-stage legal help to people seeking asylum in future, speedier process? It might not be lawyers
The new EU Migration and Asylum Pact allows for “legal counselling”. Those who give it won’t have to be “qualified lawyers”, says the Department of Justice.
Would Blanchardstown benefit from having a town council?
The current programme for government says it will “establish town councils in large towns to provide a focal-point for raising concerns of towns”.
Council nudges ahead with plans for playground in Portrane
Despite objections from some local residents, in an informal consultation, that it could attract anti-social behaviour.
Council moves on plan for 5,000 homes on lands between Inchicore and Ballyfermot
The changes will be gradual, said a council planner. “It’s not an overnight, you know, deployment of four or five thousand units in an area.”
Government to look at the idea of merging cost-rental and social housing in future
“That is really, I think, what Nirvana is for the future,” says Fiona O’Driscoll, of the Irish Council for Social Housing. “It's the dream.”