Some say they welcome the planned redevelopment of the square, but that it would be a loss to the city if existing businesses did not form part of its future.
Councillors backed a plan for a play park commemorating the children who died in 1916, and one for housing in Ballyfermot, and heard about plans for Bridgefoot Street Park.
Two groups of councillors recently voted on the current design for the track which runs from Clontarf to the city centre. One okayed it, the others said it wasn’t good enough.
At a meeting Monday, councillors clashed with managers over whether to close the laneway, and were denied information about plans to build housing on the Oscar Traynor Road site.
The government promised €5 million a year for three years to address the area’s troubles, based on the Mulvey report’s recommendations. Community groups say this doesn’t go far enough.
Heffo’s Army was a youth-culture phenomenon of the 1970s, when Dublin youngsters, especially from working-class areas of the city, got into GAA overnight.
“If you got a nickname that was sort of funny or self-demeaning it stuck in the foreman’s head,” says John Walsh, who worked down the docks between 1962 and 2009.
A bill that would have allowed Dubliners to decide whether they wanted to vote for their mayor has come off the rails, in another blow for its backers.
“Sleeping bags are provided to clients as a humanitarian response when there is no accommodation available,” says the DRHE. But rough-sleepers say that doesn’t always happen.
Gardaí can take minor offenders to court, and they have quite a bit of discretion, which leaves room for possible bias based on race, class or ethnicity.
