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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.
Brendan O’Connor was resting his elbows on the brick wall around his front yard on Montpelier Gardens. He was looking out over the road, and up into the sky, at the yellow cranes and scaffolded blocks ...
Ireland, the 1980s. A miserable place to be. Even if on the daily, Facebook scroll-fodder would have me believe otherwise: We rose with the sun and didn’t come home ’til dark; Who remembers the ice ...
Draft bye-laws, due soon to go out to public consultation, suggest adding some new market areas and shrinking some oldies.
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, ...
Dublin City Council is on track to meet its social housing target for this year, said Mick Mulhern, the council’s housing manager on Tuesday. The council was tasked, under “Housing for All”, the ...
Councils in the Dublin region are looking at whether they should change tack, and buy or build facilities for homeless accommodation rather than rent them as they often do at the moment. “This is not ...
The red-brick building at 180 to 187 Townsend Street has silver metal shutters, painted with white hearts. It’s been vacant for years – since 2011. The Peter McVerry Trust got funding approval to ...
The Minister for Housing, Fianna Fáil TD James Browne, and the Taoiseach, Fianna Fáil TD Micheál Martin, both said recently that councils need to rezone more land so developers can build more homes.
The Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) is working on a new online portal, through which landlords and tenants should be able to apply and pay for dispute resolution, submit evidence, and see the ...