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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At the Egyptian embassy in Dublin, Sudanese immigrants plead for a chance to visit their loved ones in Egypt
Arwa Ahmed, a paediatric registrar at Temple Street Children’s Hospital, says she just wants to go visit her mum, who has heart disease.
Dublin should set up swap centres all over the city, councillors say
It’s been done in Copenhagen, where city officials have built a whole network of re-use points for neighbourhoods.
Two months after an alleged assault on an asylum seeker, IPAS has left the accuser and accused to share shelter
“I saw him today at the canteen, at breakfast time.”
Council plans campaign to urge cyclists to be more careful when sharing spaces with pedestrians
Both the Dublin Cycling Campaign and advocates for people with disabilities say they don’t think this is the right approach.
In the north inner-city, two local election candidates tempt voters with food to come listen to their pitches
What are local election candidates allowed to give voters, while trying to win their votes – and are the rules clear enough?
Dublin City Council tenders for as many as 2,000 more beds for future homeless
It’s an indicator that those running homeless services expect the problem to get worse.
In Drimnagh, a walk with the “evening chorus”
A group of about a dozen bird listeners spent an hour or so in Lansdowne Valley Park Thursday evening, listening to songs and identifying birds.
Danger for cyclists: Drivers turning left across your path
Of the nearly 1,000 reports of hazards, near misses and collisions, 10 percent mention a driver doing a “left hook”.
When arguing Algeria is a “safe” country, did Department of Justice officials downplay human rights violations?
When the government designates a country as officially “safe”, it’s harder for someone from there to get asylum in Ireland.
In Dublin 8, residents send canvassers messages with political doormats
Artist Augustine O’Donoghue and author Conor McCabe made 50 of the mats and gave them away on Meath Street recently. From there, they spread out.
Council Briefs: More focus on inclusion, and more seizures of scramblers and the like
These were two of the issues discussed at Monday’s meeting of the Dublin City Joint Policing Committee.
In Drumcondra, parents and children protest the planned closure of their afterschool
There needs to be a better system to try to avert creche and afterschool closures, Early Childhood Ireland, which represents creches and afterschools, has said.