Airbnb has targeted council employees with online adverts. Does that count as lobbying?
“Just because it’s digital, and not over coffee, doesn’t mean it’s not,” says Niamh Kirk, an associate professor at the University of Limerick.
A delay in a railway project means Iarnród Éireann won’t need it for a couple more years. “That was the only stumbling block, that it would be required back very shortly.”
Civil society groups have called for a new post within the council to progress its policies around urban farming and growing.
Tony Lowth and others worked the garden for years. A spokesperson for the college said it has new plans for the site, which include student research and public events.
They’ve tended to the plot not far from Thomas Street for nearly four years, and don’t know why they’re not allowed in, they said.
Kaethe Burt-O’Dea wants Dublin City Council to stop using a weedkiller she believes is carcinogenic. She’d rather see us learn to love our weeds, or spend time outside, pulling up weeds the old-fashioned way, and meeting each other.