Council forfeits €600,000 for Smithfield Square, as deadline for drawdown passes
The plaza needs help, says Sean Mullan, owner of the Third Space cafe. “Someone with the imagination that we could make this a vibrant space that belongs to the city.”
“It’s always the people you miss the most, about anything,” Liz Meldon says on a recent return to the place she built a community around, which is gone now.
Six of the city’s 21 libraries don’t have toilets for the public. “I just think it’s mental,” says one library-goer.
“Whose baby is this?” asked Lord Mayor Nial Ring, at the Central Area Committee on Tuesday.
As the high-level Moore Street Advisory Group teases out issues around the future of the street, some traders say they feel abandoned.
Here’s some of what councillors talked about at their first full meeting of the year at City Hall.
Businesses say they want more, tougher policing to deal with what they say has been a rise in crime. But others say a more health-focused response is what’s needed.
The interest in table tennis seems to have waned in recent years, say those who still turn out to play.
Some cyclists say if prioritising buses, bikes, and those on foot is the aim, this should be on the table.
Dublin City Council has removed rubbish bins from Dartry and Orwell parks, because they were often used to dispose of dog poo, and the parks department doesn’t deal with that – waste management does.
Hercules Club was something of an anomaly when it was born in 1934. Its spirit has endured.
Councillors in the north-west of the city met to talk about whether to agree to a land sale for affordable housing, and more.
At their December monthly meeting, councillors backed a draft climate change action plan, which proposes a series of changes meant to help the local authority achieve that goal.