Council moves on plan for 5,000 homes on lands between Inchicore and Ballyfermot
The changes will be gradual, said a council planner. “It’s not an overnight, you know, deployment of four or five thousand units in an area.”
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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.
For autistic children, overcrowding and homelessness can be even tougher
But mothers Danielle Barlow and Denise Carr say their applications to the council for “medical priority” to get into social housing faster, were refused.
Councillors asked council managers for a report in February 2022. They’re still waiting.
It’s not the only time elected members have felt ignored or brushed off council managers.
In Cherry Orchard, a vacant council home is being used for a stables
The council should provide stables for horses and fix up the house, says People Before Profit Councillor Hazel de Nortúin.
A gathering celebrates MASI’s 10 years of advocacy for asylum seekers, by asylum seekers
“Amandla,” hollered Lucky Khambule when he reached the stage. “Ngawethu,” shouted the audience in reply.
Evaluation of north inner-city community safety partnership finds respondents unsure if it made the area safer
Respondents mostly felt that the partnership provided a forum for inter-agency collaboration but that it needed more resources and better staffing to work.
Two big reports recommend Dublin City Council get back control of bin collection
In response, the Department of Environment is planning a study of the pros and cons of councils contracting out the bin service in their area to a single company.
Council Briefs: Goodbye to Cearnóg Christine Buckley, expanding Richmond Park, improving Benmadigan green, and more
These were some of the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at a recent meeting of their South Central Area Committee.
Council Briefs: 106 social homes in Whitehall, and district heating in Coolock
These were two of the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at a recent meeting of their North Central Area Committee.
Just a handful have been prosecuted in recent years for illegally revealing identities of people seeking asylum
Yet anti-immigrant protestors often film asylum seekers outside their accommodation, just going about their business.
Waited for a bus in Dublin and it never showed up? Please tell us.
We’ve built a No-Show Bus Tracker to help document the scale and details of the problems of ghost buses and cancelled buses.