Tusla says it's an offence to run an unregistered children’s home, but it places children in them anyways
So how does it square the circle?
Transport
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Councillors ask for a working group to, finally, sort safer access to a lonely bit of Swords
A muddy path is the only pedestrian link from Swords to Knocksedan – aside from walking on roads with cars whizzing by.
After years of talk, councillors push for a refocus on traffic in East Wall
It’s been six years since the area was listed as a priority for improved traffic management.
In Fingal, councillors ponder expanding the Community Car scheme
Through it, volunteers give lifts – and company – to people who need to get to hospital appointments, mass, or wherever they're going.
Dublin city facing decade of disruption from construction of big – and long-awaited – transport projects
Work on two bus corridors – Liffey Valley to the city centre, and Ballymun and Finglas to the city centre – is due to kick off this year. And that’s just the start.
A requirement that cyclists wear helmets and hi-vis would be a challenge for bike-share companies
The government seems to be considering making helmets and hi-vis mandatory for people using some category of bikes, though it’s not totally clear which.
Live in Fingal and wish you could push your kids out to play on the street?
The council says it wants to hear from you.
Lack of speed-limit data from Dublin City Council hampering “lifesaving” technology in cars
The council is now over 18 months late in meeting a legal deadline to publish a digital map of speed limits on city streets.
The 238 bus in Tyrrelstown is “cancelled, cancelled, cancelled”, residents say
At a recent meeting, councillors backed a motion calling on the National Transport Authority to sort it out.
Despite repeated complaints, a stretch of James’s Street remains hazardous for cyclists
They are shunted into a bumpy sliver of gutter between the kerb and the Luas tracks.
Long-time campaigners bristle at politicians' back-patting over new lift at Clongriffin Dart Station
“They were actually trying to take credit for the extremely hard work that we have put in."
In Drimnagh, council rolls on with plans to remake Suir Road junction
The plan is to start construction next summer on work to make the junction safer for pedestrians and cyclists, and less congested for buses, Luases, and private-vehicle drivers.
Councillors fume over government delay of Dart line meant to serve thousands of homes planned for west Dublin
“If we keep taking money away from these projects and delaying them, we’re just going to condemn people to slowly losing the will to live in gridlock.”