Years after promise of a new integration strategy, Dublin City Council still doesn’t have one
There’s a desperate need for a roadmap to improve efforts to help people navigate immigrant life, and connect, say councillors and community workers.
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From audio tours to pop-up nightclubs, an artist teases out the pleasures of the city
“He’s telling you to look at where we live, to look at what is possible,” says artist and photographer Brian Teeling, about Bill Harris’s work.
Council Briefs: Coping with Peter McVerry Trust fallout, calling for changes to Artane Band, and allocating affordable homes
These were among the issues that Dublin city councillors discussed at the November monthly meeting on Monday.
In Rathmines, an artists’ collective reinterprets a 16th-century Korean woman’s botanical works
Members of Collective Gaji painted takes on artist Shin Saimdang’s works, using their own styles and techniques, for an exhibition now on in the library.
In arguing they shouldn’t be liable for a new tax, owners of Inchicore’s Black Horse Inn say it’s in use as a pub
The building’s been boarded up since at least 2018.
In Meakstown, a push for a public sculpture to give the area a bit more of an identity
“When you say ‘Meakstown’, a lot of people ask, ‘Where’s that?’” says Yvonne Gregg.
In the Liberties, a charity looks for council help to keep a community hub going
The Robert Emmet Community Development Project provides a range of services, from an afterschool to an integration programme to “a listening ear”.
More than 600 young people born in Ireland applied to the amnesty scheme for undocumented immigrants
In a referendum in 2004, Irish voters opted to deny children of immigrants the automatic right to citizenship by birth.
A quest to understand statistics published by the Road Safety Authority leads to a wild answer chase
That’s not good, says Fine Gael TD Ciarán Cannon. “There is no one central repository for all the data we need to make our roads safer.”
Loss of Donabate’s only 24-hour outdoor ATM leaves some residents short of cash at awkward moments
There are no rules now to prevent providers from stripping out ATMs and leaving communities without access to cash. But there might be soon.
As farmers and developers push back, and elections approach, government delays implementation of land tax meant to spur housing
“You’ve got to question the government’s resolve,” Social Democrats TD Cian O’Callaghan says. “They don’t seem to be showing much resolve.”
Vacancy Watch: Two Stoneybatter homes have been sitting vacant for years, despite council threats to CPO them
“With the housing crisis as it is – it seems insane that the council allows this,” says local resident Stuart Smith.
A Mexican couple re-designs the Dublin tortilleria of their dreams for a city where tortilla seekers are rarer
While unable to do daily deliveries, they’ve still a focus on freshness, they say.