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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Unable to keep her son safe in their home, a mother asked the council for a safer one – and it said no
Erika Dunne’s six-year-old son Ben has autism, a learning disability, and is nonverbal, and she needed a home she could adapt to keep him from hurting himself.
How is the council spending €32,000 a month on public toilets at St Stephen’s Green?
One reason why public toilets aren’t everywhere, council managers have said, is that they are so expensive.
At the Botanic Gardens, an invitation to take an hour to notice the onset of spring
A daily tour pauses on the delicate purple crocuses pushing up through the ground, and snowdrops dangling white blossoms.
More dumping and rubbish being burned at illegal dump on council land in Darndale
“The fires are constantly being lit,” says local resident Annette Flanagan, who forwarded a photo taken at night showing smoke and flames.
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.