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Two councillors have lodged complaints with the council against independent Councillor Gavin Pepper. But there’s been no conclusion yet to those processes.
Councillors Voted to Sell Properties, Only for Them to Sit Derelict Dublin City Councillors sometimes agree to sell off a property with the proviso that the buyer must start redeveloping it within ...
Dublin City Council has decided to sell 25 properties it owns in the west end of Temple Bar. Affected businesses seem largely unruffled, but residents are worried their quiet enclave could turn into ...
The Land-Hoarder Challenge Imagine you’ve invested in land in Dublin. How might government policies affect whether you hoard it or not? Play our game to see. Illustrations by Aidan Harte. Lois Kapila ...
Last October, People Before Profit Councillor Conor Reddy filed complaints with Dublin City Council about another councillor. He alleged that his constituency colleague in the North West Area, ...
Draft bye-laws, due soon to go out to public consultation, suggest adding some new market areas and shrinking some oldies.
“Members emphasised the importance of differentiating this scheme from other co-living schemes which have received negative media attention,” say meeting minutes from June 2019. The idea was dropped, ...
Luke Maxwell is the host of the film review show, Viewfinder on 103.2 Dublin City FM. He also hosts The Movie Express Podcast, which you can find at www.movieexpress.org. Culture Desk, Feb 22nd, 2017 ...
The council plans to pilot “pollarding” 250 hornbeams across the city, said the city tree officer at a recent meeting.
Embracing “Grimy aesthetics, edgy soundscapes, songs that are short for a scrolling economy, a general sense of living on the internet”.
Ties between the Liberties and suburbs like Inchicore go back to the mass relocation of working-class Dubliners from the city centre during mid-20th-century “slum clearances”, says Joseph Brady, ...
Most journalists would agree that the default position should be to name those we quote in our articles. But government spokespeople resist this, insisting on anonymity. Unreal Estate ...