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"June is deeply associated with Áine, the Irish goddess of summer, fertility, love, and sovereignty, whose presence is especially felt around the midsummer season."
This Traveller halting site, like others, was built on a historic landfill. “It seems to be a pattern across the state to build sites on dumps.”
As the rent increase kicks in, councillors were briefed at recent meetings on plans for some maintenance in flats across Dublin city. Some asked who’s doing the works.
Dublin City Council stopped using it in 2018, due to concerns that it was carcinogenic.
New gambling advertising rules are set to come into effect very soon, and are likely to curb on-street advertising.
“An innocent tenant, through no fault of their own, ends up back homeless because a landlord doesn’t carry out the works,” says one councillor.
During a cinema visit a few weeks back, Garry Mulhall noticed his son had his hands over his ears.
Also, 20 percent of the 95 samples had levels higher than 5μg/l, the threshold in the latest EU Drinking Water Directive.
The HSE has cut the group’s funding and is also looking to use the rooms in the building they’ve been operating from.
Some cities worldwide – from Los Angeles to Sydney – have switched pedestrian crossing buttons to automatic timers, so people don’t have to touch them to activate.
At Labre Park in Ballyfermot, some are calling for more caravans for those who may need them to self-isolate. But Dublin City Council said that overcrowding meant they planned instead to move people off-site.
We thought it might be useful to bring together in one directory the offers of help, support, errands, classes and odd jobs in the city. We’d love your help sharing it, and adding to it.
Among other things, Alan Carthy’s research uncovered how, in the 1940s, plans for a large-scale treatment facility in Santry fell through, costing the government time and money.