Minister plans to make it much tougher for Ukrainian refugees to become Irish citizens
Andrii Stepanov says some people don’t want to return to what was once their home, and is now Russian territory. “Why are they pushing us to Russia?”
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People seeking asylum who say they are children are being housed alongside adults
But a statistics blackout means it’s unclear how many.
Despite parents’ pleas, council has no plans to make walking and cycling across the Chapelizod Bypass to get to school safer
“Someone’s going to be seriously hurt on that road. What are they waiting for?” says parent Adrienne Lee.
Part of Quaker burial grounds might be used to aid construction of social housing next door, council says
The burial ground on Cork Street near Marrowbone Lane dates back to the 17th century and hundreds of people are buried under its grassy surface.
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”.