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.
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Council Briefs: More focus on inclusion, and more seizures of scramblers and the like
These were two of the issues discussed at Monday’s meeting of the Dublin City Joint Policing Committee.
Local councillors push to close another route in the north inner-city due to anti-social behaviour
Former council planner Kieran Rose says the council has lost the plot. “It’s crazy,” he says. “If we do this we are giving up on the city.”
The anti-immigrant movement is getting more disruptive and dangerous, councillors tell Gardaí
“Temperatures seem to be heating up by the week,” said Social Democrats Councillor Tara Deacy at Monday’s meeting of the Dublin City Joint Policing Committee.
Swords residents not told that a text service to report issues directly to Gardaí was shut down more than a year ago
“So people are still using it, which is unfortunate,” says Sinn Féin Councillor Ann Graves.
Number of community gardaí in north inner-city has fallen by 80% in a decade
“On-the-ground management decisions and staff allocations do not reflect a commitment to community policing,” says Labour Senator Marie Sherlock.
In the aftermath of a violent attack in the city, Algerian Dubliners worry about a cloud of stigma
Mohamed Tienti says that the morning after it happened, he felt ashamed showing his face at work.
New chair of north inner-city community-safety partnership outlines holistic vision for reducing crime
“I laughed when I heard people say that they should put armed guards on the streets,” says Eddie Mullins. “What are they going to do? Shoot people?”
Council and Gardaí to launch another forum to tackle anti-social behaviour, crime and drugs in the inner-city
“This is a model of good practice that has worked really well in the past,” says Social Democrats Councillor Tara Deacy.
Six years on there’s still no timeline for the opening of the first supervised injecting facility in Dublin
And when it does happen, will it be matched with investment in detox beds? And should it now cater, also, to the growing number of crack cocaine users?
Off Abbey Street, councillors reluctantly agree to start moves to close laneway
“It is regularly used for intravenous drug use and is littered with needles and other drug paraphernalia,” says a council report.
Two years in, new approach to making the north inner-city safer still without plan of action
In 2021, Justice Minister Helen McEntee announced a “community-safety partnership” for the area. It hasn’t yet finished its plan for what to do.
A Garda superintendent hopes to build more trust between ethnic-minority communities and the Gardaí
Since February, Superintendent Seán Fallon has been supervisor of the Garda National Diversity and Integration Unit.