Tusla inspectors found problems with the use of physical restraint in seven children’s homes
In two cases, inspectors found that staff were using restraint to try to manage children’s behaviour, and one of those children was restrained 78 times.
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More than 600 young people born in Ireland applied to the amnesty scheme for undocumented immigrants
In a referendum in 2004, Irish voters opted to deny children of immigrants the automatic right to citizenship by birth.
A quest to understand statistics published by the Road Safety Authority leads to a wild answer chase
That’s not good, says Fine Gael TD Ciarán Cannon. “There is no one central repository for all the data we need to make our roads safer.”
In the north inner-city, a proposal to fence in council flats to keep the world out
A council committee voted to start a process to close off the public right of way on Hardwicke Street, which would set the stage for putting up fences and gates.
New apartment complexes and estates in Dublin must be named in Irish, council says
“I think it’s a good idea,” says Darach Ó Séaghdha, an Irish language activist, podcaster and author. “It will stop the bad translations happening.”
Council Briefs: Progress on greening the Liberties, talk of Kilmainham Lane’s future, dereliction in Cherry Orchard, and more
Green space per person in the Liberties has nudged up from 0.68sqm in 2015 to 1.68sqm now, says Deirdre Prince, a Dublin City Council landscape architect.
Council Briefs: Next step in tackling illegal dump in Darndale, new Rutland Street community centre, update on Jamestown Masterplan, and more
These are some of what councillors for the northside of the city have discussed at recent meetings.
The council has been paying more than €2.3m a year for an Aungier Street hostel, which it says is empty
A council spokesperson says the building, which is meant to be a homeless hostel, is not in use because it needs remedial work and a new fire cert.
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.