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.
The difficulties they face being heard are part of a wider problem, says one councillor.
The new budget, approved by councillors at a meeting on 3 December, is up 7.5 percent from this year, to €389 million.
Tree pits, rain gardens, and swales would help absorb rain, to reduce the flow into the sewers when it’s really tipping it down.
It’s an option that is welcome for some, but that drips with meaning for others.
“Everyone one that started The7 I met here,” said Tharick Benck recently, during a shift in the Vintage Studio.
“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.
The council is now looking to lower the speed limit and – eventually, maybe, install speed ramps.
Of 740 reports of ghost buses since the tracker was launched on 16 November, 48 were about the S6.
The centre’s managers want, instead, to give residents vouchers for outside shops – but the nearest one’s a 30-minute walk.
“We couldn’t continue. It’s become a full-time unpaid job,” says chairperson Jackie Ball.
These were a few of the issues Dublin City Councillors discussed at their December monthly meeting on Monday.
The three artists on the ticket “are forward-thinking superfly radicals that indulge in what you might call a romantic urban sound”.