As an anti-immigrant encampment dwindles on Basin View, its organisers try to rally
One man who’s been involved has been trying to organise a social event on a nearby council football pitch, something the council says it’s “monitoring”.
Michael Kelly wants to build two padel courts, with a café, toilets and bike parking near the Black Horse Inn, but Waterways Ireland says it owns part of the site.
“We want people cycling today. We want people to feel safe today," says Social Democrats Councillor Paddy Monahan.
"Can we stop, please, with commissioning more reports and actually just fix what we already know is broken?" says Mark Gleeson, of Rail Users Ireland.
The chains might be coming off the gate into the Victorian public toilet at the New Street South and Kevin Street Upper junction.
In a letter earlier this year, the director of the Residential Tenancies Board flagged issues with its current ability to enforce the law.
Among the proposals? A new community team with outreach workers, violence interrupters, and health professionals.
Eliminating bagged waste, installing CCTV, and finding and knocking on the doors of people who don’t have bin contracts are among the long-promised changes.
High buildings drive up construction costs and land values, some say, which means more expensive homes.
They plan to set up a “special purpose vehicle” to push forward the revamp. Councillors had questions about where they come in.
After the abuse he’s faced, Marin Glamuzina says he’s not doing well. Kayur Prajapati says he faces vitriol regularly.
"I have — to quote the U.S. poet Keith S. Wilson — become a repentant defender of pigeons."
Two major hotel developments are planned to rise beside St Catherine’s Church on Meath Street, high over this place of peace and prayer.