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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.
Annual Sculpture In Context exhibition in the Botanic Gardens on hold until organisers can find funding
“We couldn’t continue. It’s become a full-time unpaid job,” says chairperson Jackie Ball.
Council Briefs: Council considers legal action against HSE over funding for ambulance services, a motion to tackle youth homelessness, and more
These were a few of the issues Dublin City Councillors discussed at their December monthly meeting on Monday.
Dean: Rapper Kendino leads a triumphant night of Asian-Irish ingenuity
The three artists on the ticket “are forward-thinking superfly radicals that indulge in what you might call a romantic urban sound”.
In Crumlin, a new take on the spice bag
Debbie Akinbami began to adapt local dishes with Nigerian ingredients while she was in school. Now, her menu is full of them.
Tech companies in Dublin offer workers chance to donate to support Israeli soldiers
Charities supporting soldiers and veterans in Israel are on a list of causes to which employees can gift, and their employers will match the amount.