As the government blocks funding for major social-housing projects, FF and FG councillors point fingers at ministers
As many as 1,325 social homes in Dublin city are at an advanced stage, with planning granted – but now with no clear funding.
Community Safety
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No extra money yet for council to roll out actions put forward by Taoiseach’s Taskforce for Dublin
Councillors said that they feel the city was just used as the backdrop for a pre-election PR campaign.
The mystery of the falling windows on Bishop Street
This week the roadway was again covered in shattered glass fallen from the Boat House office block there.
There are problems with scramblers in parks – but all legal motocross tracks are shut down
“These motocross bikes are going up and down the streets outside their houses because normally they'd have somewhere to go, now they've nowhere to go.”
The year-long gap in community-safety work in Fingal
The county’s joint policing committee was stood down last June, but the new local community safety partnerships aren’t up and running yet to replace it.
Council says it will facilitate community-safety forum meetings, following calls from councillors
“It’s important that we have a structure where people are held to account, can voice concerns and have questions answered.”
In Finglas, an effort to make a park safe for kids to run in
Pockets of the park have become meeting points for drug users and dealers, says junior parkrun organiser Stephen Keeler.
A short animated film tells the story of a Dublin child trafficked for criminal exploitation
Forced criminality has been happening in the north inner-city for years but, lately, it is happening more openly, says Belinda Nugent, of ICON.
What have the city’s “community safety wardens” been up to?
Schemes to post wardens around O’Connell Street and Wolfe Tone Square are part of a pilot aimed at improving feelings of safety in the north inner-city.
Will proposed reforms make coroners more independent from the Gardaí?
The guards are deeply involved in inquests, even when garda conduct is at issue in the death being investigated.
Evaluation of north inner-city community safety partnership finds respondents unsure if it made the area safer
Respondents mostly felt that the partnership provided a forum for inter-agency collaboration but that it needed more resources and better staffing to work.
In Summerhill, residents call for Garda action against guys roaring around on dangerous scramblers
An Garda Síochána’s Dublin Metropolitan Region “emphasizes their commitment to arresting individuals using scramblers illegally”, a spokesperson says.
Should the new local community safety partnerships meet in public?
They’re being set up with the aim of getting more people and agencies working together to make neighbourhoods safer.