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What have the city’s “community safety wardens” been up to?
Schemes to post wardens around O’Connell Street and Wolfe Tone Square are part of a pilot aimed at improving feelings of safety in the north inner-city.
An easy-going Nepalese restaurant opens on Moore Street
Momo, pani puri and chow mein all feature on the menu of this homely addition to the underground mall.
Who’s behind a website and social media accounts ratcheting up support for anti-immigration candidates standing in Ireland?
Set up in response to events in “the fall of 2022”, they’ve been seeking “digital canvassers” to back candidates listed on the website.
In Portrane, residents of HSE-owned cottages fear for their future
The HSE isn’t maintaining them well, or doing necessary upgrades – maybe it’s time it hands them over to the council, tenants and local councillors say.
For years, a developer has kept a stretch of road closed off, clogging up traffic
And there’s no prospect of Gannon Properties taking down the fences that block off a stretch of Glen Ellan Road anytime soon.
Ryanair announces plans to fly tourists into occupied country against government in exile’s wishes
The move supports Morocco’s claim to Western Sahara, and will help finance its “illegal occupation”, a Polisario Front representative says.
In Inchicore, a plan to build two padel courts and a cafe next to the Grand Canal
Former publican Michael Kelly previously tried to get permission to build 10 homes on the site behind the Black Horse Inn, but the council said no.
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Demands for better services are legit, but council can’t do it with current funding, says council CEO
The Department of Housing has told the council it has to divert €58 million from local property taxes next year to cover what used to be paid for by central government grants.
In the heart of Rathmines, councillors eye up “underused” site for plaza, housing, Swan centre expansion
On Thursday, they backed a motion asking council managers to look at using a compulsory purchase order to buy it.
As more people face a shorter window to appeal asylum claims, hasty deportation orders cause undue stress
The number of deportation orders has shot up since 2022. But that doesn’t mean they’re all sound and will stand up to scrutiny.
With a gig on the North Bull Wall, an experimental punk band reclaims the city
“A lot of avenues are restricted to us because someone else owns it,” says John Ryan of Vsevolod Plotkin. “But no one owns this. It’s public, we can use it.”