Does Irish Water even know how much water data centres are using?
Much of the debate around data centres has focused on electricity, but the gap in figures for their water use has started to draw more attention – and breed mistrust.
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In East Wall, a long-vacant site is looking more likely to become a community garden
A delay in a railway project means Iarnród Éireann won’t need it for a couple more years. “That was the only stumbling block, that it would be required back very shortly.”
The names of some new developments are too boring, councillors say
Church Mews, Church View or Church Place? Not good enough, said independent Councillor Cieran Perry.
No clear road to lower insurance, or reopening, for Dublin’s motorcycle sports clubs
There’s a massive stigma around motocross and that it impacts insurance, and government support, says one councillor.
Companies should be required to get planning permission for drone bases, Fingal councillors say
“It’s important for residents to know, for the business, and for the credibility of the planning system, so we’re clear a loophole is not developing in terms of planning.”
In Dublin 15, the council is pushing ahead to develop a new business park at Cherryhound
But at a recent meeting, Fine Gael Councillor Kieran Dennison said he was concerned the council was moving too slowly.
A grassroots movement to reimagine Clontarf pier is gaining momentum
“You stand on the pier and it’s different every day. The sky is changing, the water, the clouds. It’s the most wonderful facility. The whole prom is.”
Street Feast, Ireland’s biggest street party, is back on 24 and 25 May
The mission is to connect people, and “get people to realise that they have a lot more in common than they have differences”, says CEO Sam Bishop.
There are problems with scramblers in parks – but all legal motocross tracks are shut down
“These motocross bikes are going up and down the streets outside their houses because normally they'd have somewhere to go, now they've nowhere to go.”
There’s been a lot of funding for new cycle lanes – but not so much for maintaining them
"People aren't going to use cycle infrastructure and cycle unless they feel safe.”
In Priorswood, the council has finally begun clearing an industrial-scale illegal dump in a residential neighbourhood
“I was lying in my hospital bed and I just kept thinking, ‘God, please don’t let me die. I want to live to see the dump gone,’” says resident Annette Flanagan.
The year-long gap in community-safety work in Fingal
The county’s joint policing committee was stood down last June, but the new local community safety partnerships aren’t up and running yet to replace it.
Fingal residents need better access to pools and pitches, new sports facilities audit says
The 200-page document recommends what facilities should be put in what areas of the county.