“It’s giving colonialism”: Ireland still owes rent to dukes and earls
Although, even though the OPW lists these rents as payable, some of the named beneficiaries say they haven't been getting them.
Seagulls “grow up to be terrorists, but they’re lovely when they are babies”, says Robert Keogh.
Despite council pledges of “support” for the development of community gardens, there’s still far more demand for them than supply.
Alex Konieczka says she would love to build and plant things with others all around the neighbourhood, but she knows she’ll need the council to approve initiatives and locals with enthusiasm to work on them.
The council is planning to heat thousands of homes in the city with hot water from the Poolbeg waste-to-energy incinerator.
“Look there are layers of plastic,” says John Drinane, dressed in jeans and a green baseball cap. “It is built up for years.”
Currently, most of the pollution in the water body comes from dirty water that gushes in through a storm pipe when it rains heavily.
Giving more support to community groups to tidy streets, and finding ways to encourage that, is one way to help, they say.
Here’s a primer on some of the debate and developments around the plan for a plant to the north of the city.
An ambitious plan that Pádraic Fogarty, an ecologist with the Irish Wildlife Trust, says he would like to see is a “green corridor” running through the city for animals to move around.
Today, the organisation is expanding to tackle environmental injustice by recruiting a solicitor to take legal cases on behalf of disadvantaged people and communities.
ESB, the EPA and environmental consultants continue to disagree over the severity of the impact on the environment, and even on whether or not the fluid leaked in 48 different spots is hazardous.
Dublin City Council plans to install new secure storage for rubbish bins at five locations within the Oliver Bond House complex, to discourage illegal dumping,