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.
Local resident Tom Phillips recently presented to councillors his proposal for revitalising Milltown, which he says has been reduced to a thoroughfare.
That will help the buses run more smoothly, and open up space for nicer walking and cycling routes, said Dublin City Council transport head Brendan O’Brien.
“This is the first strategic plan to look at the provision of sport, physical activity and recreation in the city and to plan it out in a strategic way.”
“I see photos of greenways across the country and I’m horrified. You get this wide flat surface … and the nature is secondary, and I think, here, it’s worth saving.”
One window remembers people the community lost, and the other remembers how the community came together to support each other through the difficult time.
The area could be transformed if intense therapeutic services were rolled out for a small number of high-need families, says community planner Andrew Montague.
At the request of some residents, the council recently installed yet another fence in Finglas South, this one blocking a shortcut to the park and a bus stop.
