While councillors supported sprucing up a park and a square and adding a greenway, residents say there’s a need to address a growing divide between established and new residents.
At recent meetings, some Dublin councillors passed three motions opposing plans to move homeless families into “hubs”, and also looked at several other issues.
On the Kevin Street flats and another complex over the river on North Strand Road, the outside walls are wrapped in a band of mosaic. But who decided to do that?
He was called “A rabid republican cum architect cum town planner of definite convictions cum determined preservationist and exposer of shady planning applications.”
Local services like after-school programmes and creches that rely on workers from the community-employment scheme say changes are putting their futures in jeopardy.
When Íde Mhic Gabhann and Ciarán Smyth returned to Dublin from Colombia, they searched in vain for a package-free market. So they teamed up with a Drumcondra shop to start one.
Council officials, councillors, and local campaigners have different ideas for how to put a full-sized pitch on the funny-shaped site at St Teresa’s Gardens.
Ioan Irineu Craciun used to minister in an industrial estate out of town. Now, he and his congregation have done up an old building in the city, to serve a growing Romanian Orthodox Church.
