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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 ...
Five months on, council yet to rule on legality of short-term lets in ...
Jan 22, 2025 · Five months on, Dublin City Council is yet to decide whether planning laws and conditions allow for short-term letting in Bartra Property’s co-living complex in Rathmines. On 14 August, the council posted a warning letter to Bartra Property (Rathmines) Limited after evidence that the company was ...
Fingal’s “flip-flop” on airport passenger-cap increase was in line …
Jan 22, 2025 · Fingal councillors have defended the council’s Planning Department after DAA Chief Executive Kenny Jacobs called it “inconsistent” in its approach.. An email shows that the council did tell DAA the airport operator’s application to raise the passenger cap was valid – before it publicly declared that same application invalid.
As they await a regeneration, residents at Cromcastle Court call on ...
Jan 22, 2025 · Jesslyn Henry, Cat Ingles, Fran Lindon, and Alison Dowling. Photo by Laoise Neylon. At Cromcastle Court in Kilmore West, several of the housing blocks are boarded up with rusted metal shutters. Others are partly shuttered. The grass is uncut and strewn with rubbish. Outside the stairs to several ...
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 ...
On North Frederick Street, landlord has packed more bedrooms …
Jan 15, 2025 · At 34 North Frederick Street – the building occupied by Take Back the City in 2018 – the landlord has packed in more bedrooms than the planning permission allows.. In 2020, Dublin City Council granted permission to owner Gracanica Ltd to put six bedrooms in the building, in what looks like a shared-house arrangement.. It’s not clear if Gracanica made the decision to add more rooms to the ...
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.
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: 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 ...