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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 ...
Council lays out timeline for building flagship housing scheme at …
Jan 29, 2025 · A rendering of Emmet Road after the development is built. From planning documents. Construction works to ready lands at Emmet Road in Inchicore for 578 social and cost-rental apartments are set to begin in March, according to a presentation to councillors this week. Builders should then start on ...
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 ...
In Balbriggan, council plans revival of boat house and bath house …
Jan 29, 2025 · Enormous foamy waves crashed against the lighthouse at the end of the harbour wall in Balbriggan on Tuesday morning. Below the viaduct that carries the railroad along the coast, construction workers were busily redeveloping the Quay Street parking area. They were fencing off portions of the street ...
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 ...
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: 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.
As Dublin city’s new cycle network is built, wealthier areas are due …
Sep 13, 2023 · Another area that looks a bit left-out on the map is Ballyfermot. Left behind. A lot of the parts of Dublin that are getting – and are due to get more – active travel infrastructure “already are within walking distance of the city, so they can walk in”, says Dempsey, the Labour representative in Ballyfermot-Drimnagh.