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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Who asked for the council’s anti-dumping CCTV to be removed from the Whitehall church car park?
Harry Murphy, whose back garden borders the car park, says he wishes the CCTV was still there. “There’s been carpets dumped there – a whole kitchen once.”
The council tried to turn dumb bins into smart ones, but it didn’t work very well
The sensors they tried installing didn’t always fit well, ran out of batteries, and had connectivity problems.
Living in poor conditions, a tenant in Rathmines has struggled to force fixes
Ciara Hill has lived without a working shower or toilet, with mould and a broken front door, and a lingering dread that she will end up back where she was a few years ago – homeless again.
You’re invited: Please come test our new cycle collision tracker
We’d love it if you could join us at the Teachers Club on Parnell Square on the evening of Thursday 22 February from 7.30pm.
Councillors and researchers question the effectiveness of clamping cars, as fines gain in popularity
“My understanding is that Dublin City Council is [the] only one currently using clamping as a parking enforcement method,” an NTA spokesperson said.
Arson attack on earmarked asylum shelter in Galway hurt government efforts to source more premises, documents show
More than 750 people seeking asylum didn’t have accommodation as of yesterday, official figures show.
Council Briefs: Seven projects approved for council-backed crowdfunding scheme, council’s rent collection increases, and more
These were some of the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at recent meetings of their finance and protocol committees.
The Whitehall College building has been sitting empty for a decade, as a legal battle drags on
Fianna Fáil TD Paul McAuliffe says that those living in the area really want answers about how this could happen.
A local history project in Drumcondra unearths an original record and imagines the first owner’s housewarming party
“It’s Chris Hall, ‘One Night in June’ and it’s from 1929,” says Chris Moran. “Someone is probably having a house party when they got their keys.”
After a string of thefts, students in a Docklands housing block say they’re struggling to get help from guards or management
Over six months last year, at least one PlayStation, three Nintendo Switches, a smoothie-maker, and about €500 cash went missing, by one resident’s accounting.
Council should take back Tailors’ Hall from heritage group An Taisce and put it to community use, council committee says
An Taisce has sub-leased part of the historic Liberties building to a publican. Some local councillors said there are more pressing needs in the area than a pub.
Department doubtful about council’s plan for a new interpretive centre on Bull Island
The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage has questioned “the viability of providing the proposed Discovery Centre”.