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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As women’s families grieve, debate continues – through cloud of stigma – over how to make sex workers safer
Hirantha Pereira says he mostly tries to forget his sister Belinda’s murder in Dublin in 1996, but sometimes he daydreams about what it would be like if she was still alive.
Grangegorman bring centre looks set to close, making recycling harder for local residents
A council spokesperson says it’s trying to keep the centre open, but if it can’t, it will be “challenging” to find an immediate replacement.
Airlines have been refusing to let Bolivians board flights to Dublin
Fearing fines, KLM and Lufthansa have been enforcing stringent requirements, leading Bolivians to miss flights, and even leaving one man stranded.
After years of promises, council suggests it may be ready to clear massive illegal dump later this year
The next step is to apply for planning permission to build a wall to stop new debris and rubbish from being tipped onto the site, councillors were told earlier this week.
Market campaigner says the public has a right to access the city’s Victorian fruit and vegetable market
The public has a “market right” – a right to access the market – and that is a common-law property right protected by the constitution, says Toby Simmonds.
In Santry, a group has new ideas for how to connect the community and build an identity
A biodiversity superhighway, a village centre, feeder buses to run around housing estates and a new athletics museum are among the ideas pitched.
In just hours, with no guidelines, a Tusla social worker decided a young asylum seeker was an adult not a child
“There’s an adultification of Black and Brown children happening here,” said Jennifer O’Leary, a woman advocating for the young asylum seeker.
Plans for a new primary-care centre on Gulistan site in Rathmines face years of delay
Under terms agreed when the council transferred the land to the HSE, the HSE was supposed to submit a planning application by October 2022.
As Dublin Bus struggles with driver shortages, drivers say a voice in their ear makes them miserable
The “PressIt” system, meant to keep buses on schedule, has controllers reminding drivers if they are running ahead or behind as they drive.
Council plans to “replace” Markievicz sports centre near Tara Street by expanding facilities at Irishtown Stadium
Councillors said this would leave a gap in services for this part of the south inner-city. “Irishtown’s gain is Pearse Street’s loss.”
Demonized and unable to get accommodation, men seeking asylum grapple with homelessness
Several have been sleeping down a laneway near the International Protection Office on Mount Street Lower.
Councillors learn, with surprise, who’s behind the ugly tarmac blobs dotting the city’s streets
At two recent meetings of the council’s South East Area Committee, councillors dug into the issue.