Vacancy Watch: a big site near Fatima Luas stop
Even as the government casts around for new land to zone for homes, it is unclear when this plot will be built out.
“It’s a truism that if you work too long in any large organisation, your understanding of reality gradually warps,” writes a former council planner.
Earlier this summer, Fianna Fáil released a set of proposals for supporting quality newspaper journalism. But if newspapers are going to survive, they’re going to have to save themselves, rather than counting on the government.
Incomes are growing but not as fast as rents – and not so much as to outweigh the advantages of inherited and other wealth, writes a UCD political economy lecturer.
How can seemingly similar planning applications get very different responses from the council? In part two of our insider’s guide, an ex-Dublin City Council planner explains.
For some of the food-related place names, the move from Irish to English has masked their resonance and origins, writes a DIT lecturer and chef.
During his Ireland tour, the author and former slave found “receptive audiences keen to link their own political aspirations to his”.
Advice on how to navigate the Planning Department of Dublin City Council, from someone in the know.
Right now, a blow to even a single large player could have serious consequences for a lot of real jobs, writes UCD political economy lecturer Andy Storey.
“I have been known to litter-pick toilet roll inserts and hot-drink holders to take them home for the compost heap,” writes our guerilla gardening columnist.
There is no shortage of examples of a rotten culture of illegality in the Irish banking sector, writes UCD lecturer Joe McGrath, our white-collar crime columnist.
A significant increase in military spending seems no more prudent a use of scarce resources than the hire of luxury limousines, writes UCD political economy lecturer Andy Storey.
“It was odd that we had to wait for two hours for corporations’ advertisements – that they were given priority,” writes asylum seeker Evgeny Shtorn.