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Jan 22, 2025 · Remembering Dolores Lynch and her dreams of safety and respect for Dublin’s “street girls” Lynch stood up to pimps and gardaí, fought stigma and campaigned, calling for respect, equality and safety for sex workers.
The council finally has a plan to do up Clonsilla village
Jan 22, 2025 · Clonsilla Road. Photo by Michael Lanigan. After almost 12 months of preparation, Fingal County Council unveiled its draft village framework plan for Clonsilla last week. The draft plan, which aims to revitalise the Dublin 15 village, includes several projects. Among them, traffic management on the ...
Housing Briefs: Auditor flags overspending on “rapid-build” …
Jan 7, 2025 · Four council “rapid-build” housing projects took longer than ordinary construction projects and costs over ran, in some cases by more than 50 per cent, according to an auditor’s report.. The council housing manager, Mick Mulhern, told Dublin city councillors at their monthly meeting on Monday that he will bring a report to the housing committee on the challenges faced on the sites in ...
As current system for restraining rent increases heads towards …
Jan 15, 2025 · He admires the Dutch system for setting reference rents and its slick online tool, says Redmond.. It draws in quite a few characteristics. The tool awards points for size of the house, energy rating, indoor amenities, outdoor amenities and so on – and then each point is awarded a euro price.
Despite councillors’ reservations after pilot in north inner-city ...
Apr 3, 2024 · The Department of Justice intends to set up local community safety partnerships throughout Ireland in the coming months, councillors were told last week.. These will aim to make communities safer by bringing together the guards, social services, drugs services, locals residents, and public representatives to brainstorm and oversee ways to tackle anti-social behaviour and crime more holistically.
Dublin City Council says it doesn’t plan to ban soup runs, just ...
Jan 7, 2025 · Volunteers with Muslim Sisters of Éire, outside the GPO on O'Connell Street on Friday. Credit: Laoise Neylon. Outside the GPO on O’Connell Street on Friday evening, around 90 people are lined up. The queue starts in front of the Cú Chulainn statue, and runs to the end of the building on Henry ...
Council Briefs: Failure to build Traveller housing, closing another ...
Nov 6, 2024 · Councillors defer plan for Traveller housing. At Monday’s meeting, councillors asked that Dublin City Council defer approval of the next five-year plan for Traveller accommodation.. Local Traveller organisations had asked for that, councillors said, so that they have time to review the final draft – and to meet with council CEO Richard Shakespeare.
In Rush, residents campaign to keep Postman Dave
Jan 22, 2025 · Postman Dave has picked up a nickname while working in Rush, Joseph Harkins said as he walked the village’s winding Harbour Road on Thursday afternoon. “The Pope.” It’s an odd one for a postman, he said, laughing. “It’s because everybody waves to him, right? And so, I imagine, Dave has a ...
Council briefs: Enthusiasm for a Valentine’s Quarter, permeable …
Jan 15, 2025 · The council should establish a Valentine Quarter in the Whitefriar Street area, independent Councillor Mannix Flynn proposed at the South East Area Committee meeting on Monday. Flynn had proposed the motion because the Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church has a shrine to – and relics of – the ...
Task force government set up “to rejuvenate” Dublin city centre …
Oct 9, 2024 · The “high-level” task force that the government launched last May to recommend how to rejuvenate Dublin city centre and make it safer failed to consult the main existing forum set up to address safety in the north inner-city.