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Council Briefs: Long-awaited regeneration of Croke Villas, campaign to save number 11 bus, expansion of Drumcondra library
These were some of the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at a meeting of their Central Area Committee on Tuesday.
In Rathmines, renters face eviction from a building contracted as homeless accommodation
“I consider this place home,” says Abdul Rahman Ali, who signed a lease for an apartment in the complex in 2010. “I’ve been here for 14 years.”
Bus drivers veer towards dispute with bosses
At issue: controllers’ efforts to make drivers running ahead of schedule slow down, or wait for a bit at a stop.
A company wants to hire an electrician, but the state is trying to deport him
Joseph Sesay says he can’t go back to Sierra Leone to apply for a work permit from there. It doesn’t feel safe, he says.
Will proposed reforms make coroners more independent from the Gardaí?
The guards are deeply involved in inquests, even when garda conduct is at issue in the death being investigated.
In Rathgar, councillors press for council to make good on promise to make park public
It’s built and open. But, the oasis in the Marianella apartment complex hasn’t yet been taken under council control.
Council Briefs: Failure to build Traveller housing, closing another laneway, and scrapping the Bull Island discovery centre
These were among the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at their November monthly meeting on Monday.
Plan for food market at St Andrew’s Church has fallen apart
Market operator Manifesto has walked away from the project, said its co-founder Martin Barry.
A change to the law means people deciding asylum appeals no longer have to be practising lawyers
Reducing the qualifications is meant to make it easier to recruit more International Protection Appeals Tribunal members, to process more appeals, faster.
Owners of Newmarket building ask for permission to drop market space
“It’s just not a market location,” says the leasing agent. But some market operators say they’re potentially interested in it.
For autistic children, overcrowding and homelessness can be even tougher
But mothers Danielle Barlow and Denise Carr say their applications to the council for “medical priority” to get into social housing faster, were refused.
Councillors asked council managers for a report in February 2022. They’re still waiting.
It’s not the only time elected members have felt ignored or brushed off council managers.