In the north inner-city, tenants of 15 years evicted so council can buy their home
Dublin City Council is buying 40 homes in the Northbank apartments. It is not clear how many tenants have been evicted for the deal to proceed.
“For nearly a decade, conversations about the possible demolition of people’s homes have gone on in the background,” says Social Democrats Councillor Daniel Ennis.
Dublin City Council is employing artists to work with children to co-design improvements to the area.
The chair of the city-centre taskforce, David McRedmond, wrote recently that the developer Ballymore has plans to “completely rebuild the Sheriff Street area”.
“The video for ‘Up De Flats’ is a show of hometown pride in a corner of the city too often degraded and denigrated.”
Up De Flats is the first full EP by Gemma Dunleavy and is a love letter to the tight-knit community of Sheriff Street in the north inner-city.
You’ve probably seen John Coll’s work about town. His most famous? The canal-side sculptures of writers Brendan Behan and Patrick Kavanagh. At the moment, he’s working on a more contemporary subject.