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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.
In Fingal, the journey to the top of the social-housing list is painfully slow
Homeless since 2021, Michael Conway was granted medical priority last September and shot up the list. But nine months later he still hasn’t reached the top.
Council Briefs: Boycotting HP-branded products, quietening the M50, and pushing for more social housing
These were among the issues Fingal county councillors discussed at their July monthly meeting.
An artist coaxes music out of stone and metal in Balbriggan, building lithophones and metallophones
Darren Rogers “has an engineering mind, an architectural mind”, says local filmmaker Aidan Whelan.
With journalists and the public shut out of some Fingal council committee meetings, they’re left to rely on terse minutes
In the official record, 20 minutes of presentation and discussion can be reduced to just two short sentences.
Efforts continue to take the job of regulating Dublin Airport noise away from Fingal County Council
The council is too entangled with the airport to be independent, critics say. Labour TD Duncan Smith has introduced a bill to give the EPA the job instead.
In Fingal, a teenage aviation journalist leads the national media
But 17-year-old Shaun Dunne says he’s aiming for a career as a pilot, not in the media.
Post-election, a group of Fingal county councillors have formed a ruling alliance – but what are their policy goals?
Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, Labour and the Green Party voted together to choose the lord mayor and divvy up committee chairs.
Time to reopen Balbriggan’s council help desk, councillors say
Now, residents must travel 18km to Swords, or 37km to Blanchardstown if they need to sign forms or speak with a council official face to face.