Off St Stephen’s Green, RCSI puts forward big vision for future of York Street
At a meeting on Monday, councillors were surprised, they said, that it was the first they had heard of the plan, part of which is being rolled out.
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Although council once pushed to “terminate” it, scheme letting clampers knock off early if they met quotas remained
Dublin Street Parking Services, the company the council pays to fine, clamp and tow illegally parked cars in the city,
Those with disabilities face fewer, but still some, hurdles to voting this election
Padhraic Dormer votes in every election. “If you don’t vote, you can’t give out,” he said on Friday,
Council Briefs: Long-awaited regeneration of Croke Villas, campaign to save number 11 bus, expansion of Drumcondra library
These were some of the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at a meeting of their Central Area Committee on Tuesday.
In Rathmines, renters face eviction from a building contracted as homeless accommodation
“I consider this place home,” says Abdul Rahman Ali, who signed a lease for an apartment in the complex in 2010. “I’ve been here for 14 years.”
Bus drivers veer towards dispute with bosses
At issue: controllers’ efforts to make drivers running ahead of schedule slow down, or wait for a bit at a stop.
A company wants to hire an electrician, but the state is trying to deport him
Joseph Sesay says he can’t go back to Sierra Leone to apply for a work permit from there. It doesn’t feel safe, he says.
Will proposed reforms make coroners more independent from the Gardaí?
The guards are deeply involved in inquests, even when garda conduct is at issue in the death being investigated.
In Rathgar, councillors press for council to make good on promise to make park public
It’s built and open. But, the oasis in the Marianella apartment complex hasn’t yet been taken under council control.
Council Briefs: Failure to build Traveller housing, closing another laneway, and scrapping the Bull Island discovery centre
These were among the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at their November monthly meeting on Monday.
Plan for food market at St Andrew’s Church has fallen apart
Market operator Manifesto has walked away from the project, said its co-founder Martin Barry.
A change to the law means people deciding asylum appeals no longer have to be practising lawyers
Reducing the qualifications is meant to make it easier to recruit more International Protection Appeals Tribunal members, to process more appeals, faster.
Owners of Newmarket building ask for permission to drop market space
“It’s just not a market location,” says the leasing agent. But some market operators say they’re potentially interested in it.