Now that the council has stopped taking horse manure, it's piling up in the Liberties
“So the council is allowing horses in Dublin City,” says horse owner David Mulraney. “But they’re not allowing them to put their horse manure anywhere.”
“The difference that tenant purchase made to Irish society was enormous,” says Aideen Hayden. But its legacy and present is complex.
“Before I get out of my car outside the house, I get the smell of sewage. When people call over, I have to warn them. It’s embarrassing.”
“Just because it’s digital, and not over coffee, doesn’t mean it’s not,” says Niamh Kirk, an associate professor at the University of Limerick.
Instead, it’s moving staff to focus on other housing projects that will deliver more homes, said Dublin City Council’s head of housing.
Councillors face tough decisions as vulnerable and desperate groups make their cases for priority amid a shortage of social homes.
The government is reportedly looking into the idea.
“Amid Ireland’s unending housing crisis, nearly 70 per cent of the country’s 25-year-olds are still living at home.”
The Land Development Agency is planning a mix of cost-rental and social homes at the Bluebell Waterways development.
The committee’s chairperson, Fianna Fáil Councillor Deirdre Heney, says she wants to run more private workshops and organise site visits, instead.
“It’s effectively sitting on residentially zoned land, it just isn’t right.” A spokesperson for the college says it’s considering its options for this parcel.
The planned new homes are to be spread across seven blocks to the front and rear of the Clonsilla Inn.
“It’s an enormous problem, the entire basis of the zoning in the area was about the provision of a new train station access.”