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: deathtoricky emerges from the underground
Embracing “Grimy aesthetics, edgy soundscapes, songs that are short for a scrolling economy, a general sense of living on the internet”.
Across rural Fingal, water treatment plants are at capacity
It holds villages back from growing. And, “it also has very serious consequences, not just for the environment, but for human health”.
Loss of buses from Bluebell and Inchicore would harm Liberties traders, say campaigners
“Thousands of people come every week to shop,” says Noel Fleming, owner of Noel’s Deli on Meath Street.
Fingal County Council is looking at upping its fees for parking
At the moment, they are the lowest of the four Dublin local authorities.
Dublin councils are to look at buying or building homeless hostels
“We have an over-reliance on the private sector, it is expensive, it is poor value for money,” says Mary Hayes, director of the Dublin Region Homeless Executive.
Council on track to deliver about 2,000 new social homes this year, says housing manager
“It was a slow start, but I think the ship is moving,” said council housing manager, Mick Mulhern, at a housing committee meeting.
Survivors excluded from planning of memorial centre on former Magdalene Laundry site, councillors warn
“I don't know how many times we have to ask to be included.”
Residents of Basin Street flats fear their long-promised redevelopment is now in limbo
Many of the social housing projects paused recently were on vacant sites but this one is different, says a local councillor.
Planning applications begin to file in for homes on industrial estate in Finglas
Two applications have gone in in recent months for plots on the edges of the big Jamestown Business Park.
Things to Do: Admire a 13th-century manuscript, reflect on the demolition of a church, and pub-quiz an exhibition into existence
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In an Inchicore industrial estate, a members’ club invites people to mingle and jam
“The biggest thing that happens here and the most fantastic thing to see is people feel they own it,” says organiser Kamil Che.