“We have waited too long; we desperately need the department to fund this,” says Shay L’Estrange, coordinator with Ballyfermot Traveller Action Project.
The government plans in future to offer intensive English courses to people who come here seeking asylum. Until then, community groups are filling the gap.
Before the pandemic, there was a bustling schedule for older people in the community. Starting with new yoga classes, organisers are trying to bring it back.
“If they’re not in the right place, they may as well not be there,” says Bernard Mulvany, a campaigner with Access for All, whose daughter uses a wheelchair.
Peter Kavanagh is watching plans progress for a new biodiversity centre further down river, he says, and thinking now’s the moment to resurrect his pitch for a walking trail too.
It would make financial sense for after-school clubs to turn away children of non-working parents, says Austin Campbell of the Robert Emmet CDP. But “we don’t want to leave them behind. So we lose money.”
It’s for a free online tool that “uses data to help fight climate change”. But some critics say Google is helping to create the problem it’s helping to fight.
The “shared mobility unit” will encourage people to stop driving private cars so much, and opt instead for car-sharing, bike-sharing, e-bike-sharing or e-scooter-sharing services.
