“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.
Tree Protection Orders can be issued be local authorities under the Planning and Development Act 1963 – but they rarely opt to do so.
With South Dublin County Council and Dublin City Council, Codema is rolling out a number of pilot projects to prove the benefits of “district heating”.
At a recent meeting of Dublin City Council’s South East Area Committee, these were among the issues that councillors for the local area discussed.
For heritage reasons, and also environmental ones, Dublin City Council is working on a plan to improve rather than discard Ballybough House, designed by Herbert Simms, and built in 1938.
A documentary maker’s memoir explores his relationship with the aquatic world, with tales of shallow dives and far-flung adventures that break on gentle waves of poetry and images of coast and wildlife.
Jeffrey Roe is running a workshop at the TOG Hackerspace next month for those interested in making their own sensors, to track air pollution in their neighbourhoods.
A low-emissions zone is an area from which vehicles with high emissions, or major polluting vehicles, are banned – or which they are charged a fee to enter.
They say they’re concerned current plans might just push problems downstream. A spokesperson for South Dublin County Council says they’ve taken that into account.
“We’re growing about 15–20 different varieties of crops and we’re on about a quarter of an acre here,” says Martin Matthews, the farm founder.
Whether parking is the best use for a council-owned site in Beggars Bush was also among the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at meetings recently.
Celia Somlai keeps “hundreds or thousands” of the wiggly fellas in a wooden wormery in her living room, and feeds most of her food waste to them.
The Food Smart Dublin project aims not only to reintroduce forgotten seafood recipes to the Dublin diet, but also to show why its smart to use some seafoods more than others.