A new plan envisions Dublin City Council helping to fill creche spaces with actual creches
And possibly setting up a council-owned, not-for-profit childcare delivery company.
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Lack of speed-limit data from Dublin City Council hampering “lifesaving” technology in cars
The council is now over 18 months late in meeting a legal deadline to publish a digital map of speed limits on city streets.
In a boxing club with ties to Conor McGregor, some non-white and immigrant athletes seek to connect and belong
Crumlin Boxing Club is run by Philip Sutcliffe Snr, McGregor’s boxing coach, a Dublin city councillor who – like McGregor – has voiced anti-immigrant views.
Brushing up: A monument to “Demolition” Dave Conway, who helped clear the way for the Luas’s Red Line
Conway, a crane operator, died in a motorcycle crash in 2001, at age 38.
Dublin’s cycling hotspot? The “Terenure A” electoral division, census data says
But what is it about this patch of the city – which many might think of as part of Harold’s Cross – that makes it so cycle-y?
Thump. Rattle. Scrape. Behind one fragment of the city’s soundscape
Nottingham-based Murphy & Son, which makes the cork bags widely used in keg deliveries in Dublin, says it sells more to Ireland than anywhere else in the world.
Secret rules and informal agreements raise questions of fairness and hamper effectiveness of parking enforcement in the city
With Dublin City Council’s current parking-enforcement contract with DSPS due to end before long, some councillors have called for a new approach.
As Dublin city’s new cycle network is built, wealthier areas are due to get a bit more, an analysis shows
In response, a spokesperson for the council said that “An area’s affluence in no way bears influence on the strategic routing.”
In Skerries, a circle gathers to share songs, one after another
“We just set up the kind of group that we wanted, informal, where you could come to sing or simply listen,” says Sara Dennedy, of the Skerries Folk Group.
The removal of a Baldoyle phone box dislodges a piece of pirate-radio history
In 1986, it was the hotline to reach the team behind Big Beat Radio, who didn’t want the government to find their transmitter.
Why is ESB building giant batteries in the city?
One of them, between Inchicore and Ballyfermot, is in the final stages of testing now. And there are more to come, in Poolbeg and South Wall.
In apartment complexes across the city, social tenants are segregated into separate blocks with barriers to access to amenities
“I think it’s wrong for the kids growing up,” says Dee Roche, who lives in Hamilton Gardens in Cabra. “It’s starting a divide among the kids.”
In the Liberties, a church unveils a pair of new stained-glass windows commemorating the time of Covid
One window remembers people the community lost, and the other remembers how the community came together to support each other through the difficult time.