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In Donabate, council okays more homes despite concerns about lack of accompanying services and amenities
“They just seem to be very much housing at all costs, and everything else later.”
Irish Soup Kitchen Centres refused charity status due to uncertainty over counting cash
“Absolutely everything was above board,” says Mark O’Neill, the founder of Irish Soup Kitchen Centres. But it has now closed, he said.
In Hartstown, a writer and musician imagines the eeriness of the Dublin suburbs of the near future
“Hub”, his latest album of stories told over ambient music, “casts a jaundiced eye on Ireland as a tech and financial services node”.
In Fingal, councillors call for more transparency in how council is tackling coastal erosion
No record of a Fingal Coastal Liaison Group meeting has been published publicly since 11 September 2019 – although there have been meetings since then.
In Fingal, a trio of councillors proposes reopening strategic policy committee meetings to media and the public
The county’s councillors voted through rules late last year that ended access.
Local residents raise concerns about health impacts on asylum seekers of living under a busy airport flight path in tents at Thornton Hall
For some locals suffering in houses because of the noise, it’s a genuine concern. For others, is it a cover?
In Porterstown, a public garden offers a template for residents who want to attract more critters to the area
The Riverwood Biodiversity Group has shaped the patch to tempt solitary bees, hedgehogs, and others. They hope neighbours will take inspiration from it.
Council orders Clonsilla drone delivery service base removed
It issued the owner of the Clonsilla Inn with a planning enforcement notice on 19 June, giving two months to remove the landing pads.
In Clonsilla, residents say council should finish plan for the village before further development is okayed
Fingal County Council hasn’t said when it expects the vision it is working on to be done.
Flying drones are delivering food in Dublin, so where are companies allowed to build drone bases?
Neither the Fingal development plan, nor the Dublin city one, set out where drone bases are allowed and where they aren’t.
In Balbriggan, a weekly meet-up for artists that’s “like a warm hug”
Artist Alison O’Grady has been running Sketchbound on and off for 12 years now.
Dublin Airport might breach its passenger cap this year, and the blame game has already begun
Airport operator DAA is pointing the finger at the Irish Aviation Authority, but the IAA says the company that runs the airport is ultimately responsible.