“We have waited too long; we desperately need the department to fund this,” says Shay L’Estrange, coordinator with Ballyfermot Traveller Action Project.
Inner City Helping Homeless says the number of rough sleepers has increased lately, reaching 164 at the highest point, but the DRHE says the figure is around 50 or 60.
Trevor Keppel says that the most difficult task for volunteers currently is finding a home for the refugee families, due to the ongoing housing crisis.
The focus for now, says Dublin City Council Culture Company CEO Iseult Byrne, is getting people to connect with the stories and history of the barracks, rather than “trying to remember some facts”.
Currently face masks aren’t mandatory for passengers in taxis in Dublin and some say that older drivers may be under greater pressure to return to work due to financial strain.
A local residents’ group in Rialto are concerned about the influx of builders from all over the country since work on the new children’s hospital resumed on 13 July.
Next month, charity Frontline Make Change plans to open Frontline Bike, an upcycling bike shop aimed to bridge the gap between addiction recovery and employment.
So far the installation of bollards and plant boxes, known as filtered permeability, at Grangegorman Lower has divided the opinions of locals in the community.
