Dublin councils are to look at buying or building homeless hostels
“We have an over-reliance on the private sector, it is expensive, it is poor value for money,” says Mary Hayes, director of the Dublin Region Homeless Executive.
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Developer says it doesn’t need to build new community facilities along with housing at big Donabate scheme, as there’s already plenty
Like the indoor swimming pool at the community centre, the developer’s report says. Only problem: there isn’t one.
Fingal Briefs: Keeping tenants in-situ, affordable housing at St Ita’s, and battling coastal erosion
These were some of the issues councillors discussed at a recent meeting of the council’s Balbriggan/Rush-Lusk/Swords Area Committee.
In Skerries, flooding leaves much-needed GAA pitch unusable for much of the year
“And to watch a pitch like that lying idle is a travesty,” says Ronan Rasdale, an under-8s coach.
Despite all the dereliction, only five properties in Balbriggan are on the derelict sites register
But Fingal County Council says that in January it started a review of properties across the county.
As delivery drones whirr through the skies of Dublin 15, councillors consider further regulating them
Drones might get people faster fast-food, but they also create noise, and raise privacy concerns, councillors said.
A former asylum seeker teaches newcomers how to navigate parenthood under pressure
In a new country, with different norms, while coping with the extreme stresses of life in the asylum process.
South Dublin County Council launched no enforcement actions for poor standards in rentals last year
Fingal County Council did very few too.
In north Fingal, parents push for more school bus services to ease waiting lists
When choosing a school for her daughter, Ballyboughal mother Pamela Clarke says the deciding factor was which bus she could get a seat on. “It’s frustrating.”
In Lusk, parents struggle to find creche places for their children
One creche, Woodlands, has had to close its waiting list, because there were 280 names on it, says the facility manager, Karen McKernan.
Councillors brainstorm ideas for breaking bin company Panda’s dominance in Dublin 15
They worry that without more serious competition, or price regulation, the company will feel free to keep hiking prices.
In Balbriggan, a battle over build-to-rent housing stirred up a rumour weaponising asylum seekers and refugees
It’s unfair to make life harder for people by portraying the possibility of their mere presence as something scary that can be used as a threat, says Bryn Edwards.
In Mulhuddart, residents volunteering to pick litter in Tolka Valley Park frustrated at being left to empty the council’s bins too
“The more we do, the more is asked of us,” wrote Ruth Law.