Across the city, parents snatch their kids out of the way of red-light-breaking drivers
Despite years of talk, a promised national strategy on red-light cameras is yet to be published – let alone implemented.
Activist organization United Against Racism has launched a pledge inviting politicians to commit to rejecting racism in this year’s local and European elections.
Nearly 150 horses were put down last year in the city, an increase from 2017. Owners and equine-welfare organisations say it’s past time to look seriously at new approaches.
Neil Fox has been hearing from cyclists who commute through the intersection where his sister was killed more than two years ago. In her memory, he wants to make it safe.
At a meeting on Monday, councillors discussed a plan to build 107 new apartments in Rathgar, offering free wifi into one of the urban villages in the city’s south-east area, and more.
Frank Gleeson was at only one of the National Transport Authority board’s meetings in the first half of 2018, and a handful of the 12 in 2017.
“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.