More than 100 HAP tenants in Dublin lost their homes after poor conditions flagged
“An innocent tenant, through no fault of their own, ends up back homeless because a landlord doesn’t carry out the works,” says one councillor.
Some decisions in Dublin City Council are discussed behind closed doors at meetings to which the public and the media are not invited.
For more than a year now, DCC Beta Projects has been on hold. “The council talks about citizen engagement, but this was actually doing it,” one councillor said.
Some called such sprinklers a “disgrace”, but the shop’s staff say after years of finding faeces and needles, “our priority is the well-being and safety of our staff”.
The postmortem says the seals’ injuries were consistent with an attack by a predator.
Some of Dublin’s graveyards are filling up and one Dublin City Councillor thinks he knows how to solve the problem.
Luas works mean no big Christmas market at St Stephen’s Green this year and some argue that if it, and others, come back, they should be done differently.
Bernie Walsh is planning an upcycling co-op and shop. It’ll be something like the men’s sheds, she says, but with sewing and selling.
There are parking spaces on pavements across the city, but there’s also some debate about whether it’s time to get rid of them.
The queue people once waited for hours in for the immigration office has been abolished, replaced with an online appointment system that requires weeks of waiting.
The idea underpinning the school is that there is no need to teach children. Given the right tools and supports, they will teach themselves and each other.
Many have dismissed calls by councillor Mannix Flynn for the band to break with its past. Others say it’s time to listen to survivors of childhood sexual abuse.
Each year, the government compares Dublin City Council’s performance with other local authorities’. Councillors are sharply critical of this rating system.