New film documents Dubliners’ resistance to subordination of social life to profit
“The market is a monster,” says filmmaker James Redmond. “It turns living spaces into dead space.”
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More for housing, libraries, and events, in Fingal County Council’s budget for 2025
The new budget, approved by councillors at a meeting on 3 December, is up 7.5 percent from this year, to €389 million.
Time for measures to get drivers to slow down on the Porterstown Road, council says
The council is now looking to lower the speed limit and – eventually, maybe, install speed ramps.
In Portrane, residents of HSE-owned cottages fear for their future
The HSE isn’t maintaining them well, or doing necessary upgrades – maybe it’s time it hands them over to the council, tenants and local councillors say.
For years, a developer has kept a stretch of road closed off, clogging up traffic
And there’s no prospect of Gannon Properties taking down the fences that block off a stretch of Glen Ellan Road anytime soon.
Ryanair announces plans to fly tourists into occupied country against government in exile’s wishes
The move supports Morocco’s claim to Western Sahara, and will help finance its “illegal occupation”, a Polisario Front representative says.
In Fingal, the council plans to hike fees at recycling centres
At a meeting Thursday, councillors worried the fee increase would lead to an increase in illegal dumping.
Improving access to Barnageeragh Bay Beach could cost €1.35 million and take years, a consultant told councillors
It’ll mean upgrading bus stops, footpaths and crossings on the R127 to make it safe to get to the path to the beach, before upgrading that too, he said.
In Swords, protestors target company that’s helped ship US military gear to Israeli air force base
After digging by The Ditch, and pressure from protestors, ASL Ireland issued a statement Friday meant to appease. Protestors say it’s not good enough.
Council says no grounds to pursue developer over failure to replace Dirty Old Tower at Clongriffin train station
One councillor called the decision embarrassing. Another said it was “an utter failure to deliver for people”.
In Tyrrelstown, councillors push to give more land to Powerstown Educate Together National School, for a while
The school’s expanding, and wants the site so its kids will have space outside during the construction process.
Council Briefs: A battle over rezoning ALSAA lands, a call for more refuges in Fingal, and giving owner-occupiers a shot at apartments
These were a few of the issues Fingal county councillors discussed at their November monthly meeting on Monday.
In Donabate, residents want developers to finally finish building their estates, and hand them over to the council
Until then, the council won’t maintain and improve the public areas, fixing roads, cutting the grass on the greens, and all that.