Tusla inspectors found problems with the use of physical restraint in seven children’s homes
In two cases, inspectors found that staff were using restraint to try to manage children’s behaviour, and one of those children was restrained 78 times.
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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.
Twenty years ago, Dublin City Council CPO-ed a derelict building because it was derelict. It is still derelict.
“Chances are, in Dublin, if it has buddleia growing on it, it’s owned by the local authority,” says Ciarán Cuffe, the Green Party former MEP. “And that is not the way it should be.”
Is that a hotel entrance or a public park? ask councillors
On Monday, they saw new designs for a spot at the corner of Dame Street and South Great George’s Street.
At a heated Central Area meeting, councillors clash over competing visions, and paths, for sports facilities
Social Democrats Councillor Daniel Ennis criticised independent Councillor Malachy Steenson.
Council Briefs: Rat-running in Kimmage, preserving Kenilworth Square, and holding on to the Rathmines Post Office
Here’s some of what Dublin city councillors for the south-east area talked about at their recent meeting.
Task force government set up “to rejuvenate” Dublin city centre didn’t talk to forum government set up to make the city centre safer
“No, no, no involvement whatsoever, which is a bit bizarre,” said Eddie Mullins, chair of the North Inner City Local Community Safety Partnership.