Too many people are kept in their cells between 19 and 24 hours a day, says chief prison inspector
"It really is an absolutely critical issue," says Mark Kelly.
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Community testing in Dublin finds almost half of homes with some level of lead in tap water
Also, 20 percent of the 95 samples had levels higher than 5μg/l, the threshold in the latest EU Drinking Water Directive.
To offer legal support in a much faster asylum system next year, Legal Aid Board fights for more funding, documents show
It’s a year until the EU’s Migration and Asylum Pact comes into force, and with it, big changes with implications for legal support.
Every weekday in Dublin, there’s a walk to bear witness for Gaza
“Most people I know, they don’t know what to do.”
Surya: A beginner’s guide to the trope of the “odorous” Indian
An essay for the two women on the Dublin Bus.
Time to crack down on illegal parking in disabled spots, councillors say
Increase fines for the offence, and boost parking enforcement so people begin to fear getting caught, they say.
To get an Irish passport for a baby girl born here, they thought they had done everything right
But the passport office wouldn’t budge.
There are changes on the way for the Bushy Park market
The council is planning to put the job of operating it out to tender, and also move its location.
Airbnb has targeted council employees with online adverts. Does that count as lobbying?
“Just because it’s digital, and not over coffee, doesn’t mean it’s not,” says Niamh Kirk, an associate professor at the University of Limerick.
In East Wall, a long-vacant site is looking more likely to become a community garden
A delay in a railway project means Iarnród Éireann won’t need it for a couple more years. “That was the only stumbling block, that it would be required back very shortly.”
The names of some new developments are too boring, councillors say
Church Mews, Church View or Church Place? Not good enough, said independent Councillor Cieran Perry.
Remembering Cathleen O'Neill, who beat down a path for other women
“A force bigger than life itself,” said a eulogy by O’Neill’s friend Carmel Jennings. “Working-class warrior,” said Rita Fagan, another friend of O’Neill’s.
No clear road to lower insurance, or reopening, for Dublin’s motorcycle sports clubs
There’s a massive stigma around motocross and that it impacts insurance, and government support, says one councillor.