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3 days ago · 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
3 days ago · 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 ...
As they await a regeneration, residents at Cromcastle Court call on ...
3 days ago · 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
3 days ago · 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 ...
Fingal’s “flip-flop” on passenger-cap increase was in line with ...
3 days ago · 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.
Some lawyers who judge asylum appeals have gone on strike
3 days ago · Several solicitors and barristers who sit part-time on the International Protection Appeals Tribunal (IPAT) stopped doing that work this month, over low pay.. A spokesperson for the Department of Justice confirmed the strike, saying that a number of lawyers at IPAT had asked for a pay rise for deciding appeals.
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 ...
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.
What is the council looking to change about transport in Dublin …
Dec 11, 2024 · Reviewing speed limits, and imposing more conditions on construction vehicles that want to enter the city, are among the things Dublin City Council’s transport chief says the council plans to work on in early 2025.