Council moves towards changes to Finglas village, with works due to start this summer
Dublin City Council this week published a tender, looking for contractors to install cycle lanes, upgrade footpaths and more.
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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.
Burdened by poverty, a father struggles to pay for journeys from Cork to Dublin to sign immigration paperwork
He faces arrest if he doesn’t turn up to sign his papers, to prove he hasn’t gone off grid while he appeals a deportation order. But he also can’t work to pay for a train ticket.
In the Liberties, a large group of kids has been hanging about and “messing”, making residents nervous – what’s the solution?
“Teenagers want to play too. They hang out in groups because there’s nothing else for them to do.”
Council Briefs: Revamping Portobello Harbour park, building affordable housing in Ballymun, and protecting Moore Street
These were some of the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at their October monthly meeting.
In Cabra, a brand-new footpath was dug up just weeks after being built
Neither Dublin City Council nor ESB have replied to queries about this apparent lack of coordination, and how much extra cost it added.
Non-EU partners of EU citizens can legally travel without visas, even on their own, but border guards and airline staff don’t always let them
When Arpita Chakraborty arrived at Amsterdam’s airport without her Spanish-citizen husband, “They’re like, ‘Okay, sorry, Madam, where is your husband?’”