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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In Gaza City, a father waited and hoped for a visa to see his kids in Ireland again. Then came the bombs.
“I applied for a visa but was rejected, and here I am, waiting. They’re all in Ireland,” said Abdullah Musleh to a news crew, weeping, and crouched on a sea of rubble.
Council plans to revamp streets around the Victorian Fruit and Veg Market
There’d be wider footpaths, more trees, more cycle routes, and new public spaces with seating.
Dublin’s cycling hotspot? The “Terenure A” electoral division, census data says
But what is it about this patch of the city – which many might think of as part of Harold’s Cross – that makes it so cycle-y?
Will you tell us what you want out of a revived Cycle Collision Tracker?
Should we expand it beyond cycle collisions, or keep it tightly focused? Should we try to collect images in addition to text, or are there pitfalls to doing that?
Years after suspending the north inner-city drug task force, the government is trying to reconstitute it and appoint a new chair
However, the remaining members of the original task force are still querying why it was ever shut down.
It’s time for community groups to start thinking about developing district-heating schemes, council official says
They could apply for operating licences, and grant funding, and help phase out fossil fuel boilers in homes in favour of a central, renewable-powered source of hot water.
For disabled immigrants, a choice between disability income or spending more time with loved ones overseas
Leaving Ireland for more than a couple weeks a year can lead to a loss of already meagre income.
Fingal County Council’s planning to roll out community grit boxes for winter, but Dublin City Council isn’t
“We would very much welcome Community grit boxes being made available, in the absence of the Councils undertaking the work themselves,” says Jason Cullen, of the Dublin Commuter Coalition.
New artwork for Temple Bar Square, a call for an audit of the Dublin Region Homeless Executive, and more
These were among the issues discussed by members of Dublin City Council’s South East Area Committee.
In the Donore Avenue area, kids are left to their own devices among derelict council-owned buildings and vacant lots
The sports pitches are long gone. The playground too. The community centre burned in 2021 and the council has left it a charred husk. “It’s so disheartening.”
Dublin City Council rejects a proposal to try to open up restaurant toilets to the wider public throughout the city
With the council’s Stephen’s Green toilet costing €390,000 a year to manage, a Fine Gael councillor says his alternative deserves more of a hearing.
Council Briefs: A reprieve for the Grangegorman bring centre, pushing back against the planning bill, and planning a meeting as Gaeilge
Those were some of the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at their October monthly meeting on Monday.