Across the city, parents snatch their kids out of the way of red-light-breaking drivers
Despite years of talk, a promised national strategy on red-light cameras is yet to be published – let alone implemented.
Housing
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Apprenticeship system is backlogged and underfunded, say unions
“In the midst of a housing crisis, it is unacceptable that the apprenticeships … are being under-resourced,” says Unite regional officer James McCabe.
Across rural Fingal, water treatment plants are at capacity
It holds villages back from growing. And, “it also has very serious consequences, not just for the environment, but for human health”.
Residents of Basin Street flats fear their long-promised redevelopment is now in limbo
Many of the social housing projects paused recently were on vacant sites but this one is different, says a local councillor.
Planning applications begin to file in for homes on industrial estate in Finglas
Two applications have gone in in recent months for plots on the edges of the big Jamestown Business Park.
As the government blocks funding for major social-housing projects, FF and FG councillors point fingers at ministers
As many as 1,325 social homes in Dublin city are at an advanced stage, with planning granted – but now with no clear funding.
With think tank Progress Ireland, the yimby movement here is powering up
With help from a wider network overseas.
In the Liberties, council tenants ask to feel a bit of benefit from nearby Land Development Agency scheme
Across the city, tenants in older flats confront the stark difference between their conditions and those likely in new cost-rental homes.
Some social-housing projects, with funding approved, have disappeared from the council’s pipeline
Dublin city councillors say they aren’t being kept up to date about continued fall-out from governance issues at the housing charity, Peter McVerry Trust.
In Rathmines, the remaining residents of the Defence Forces’ married quarters live in mouldy limbo
Grosvenor Lodge is so rundown that the council is looking at adding part of it to its derelict sites register.
A new book weighs up the history and impact of selling off Ireland’s social homes to tenants
“The difference that tenant purchase made to Irish society was enormous,” says Aideen Hayden. But its legacy and present is complex.
In Ballymun, council tenants with maintenance issues are standing up together
“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.”
Airbnb has targeted council employees with online adverts. Does that count as lobbying?
“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.