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Dublin City Council housing committee set to hold fewer public …
1 day ago · Dublin City Hall. File photo. Dublin City Council’s new housing committee is scheduled to sit for fewer public meetings, down from as many as 11 in recent years, to a planned six this year. After the local elections in June, the newly elected 63-member council began its five-year term, organising ...
Residents call on council to move more quickly to replace trees it …
1 day ago · A tree stump on Geraldine Street. Photo by Laoise Neylon. Jonathan Healy says he was shocked when he woke up on 16 January to find workers cutting down two trees on his street in Phibsborough. He ran outside to ask them what they were doing, he says. A council staff member said they needed to cut ...
As strategy to end youth homelessness reaches end, many of its …
Jan 29, 2025 · Last June, a young woman leaving state care applied to Dublin City Council for social housing – but she has yet to get any response, Sinn Féin Councillor Daithí Doolan says. He raised her case with council managers and found out that other care-leavers who applied for social housing also hadn ...
Judicial review launched over Dirty Old Tower that provides access …
Jan 29, 2025 · The Dirty Old Tower, and behind that, lands with planning permission for hundreds of homes. Photo by Michael Lanigan. Friends of the Irish Environment has started proceedings for a judicial review of a decision by Fingal County Council allowing a developer to build more homes in Baldoyle before it ...
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 ...
Government plans new system to “detain” some people who come …
Jan 29, 2025 · The new government’s draft programme, published earlier this month, says it will ensure people applying for asylum “are provided with accommodation with restrictions on their movement”.. At the moment, when a person arrives in Ireland seeking sanctuary here, they can apply for asylum and then, as they await their decision, most live in accommodation provided through the state’s direct ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...