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In Fingal, the council raised rents weeks before telling its tenants what their new rates were. The council had problems with its IT system, which led to the delay, said Paul Carroll, the council’s director of housing.
The documentary "The Strike" follows the ripples of the 1981 hunger strike all the way to the California prison system. It is due to be screened in Dublin, Belfast and Cork this month.
The council is investigating chemical "attacks" on beach grass in Balbriggan. “It is not harmless behaviour – it is the premeditated, attempted destruction of a key environmental asset.”
Could a promised scheme for stylish shopfronts change O’Connell Street? To date, Dublin City Council’s shopfront improvement scheme has covered the Liberties, Ballymun and Finglas.
Due to delays, the council’s district heating project wasn’t ready to warm Irish Glass Bottle apartments. So instead of being kept cosy with waste heat from the Poolbeg incinerator, the apartments are using heat pumps, the council project manager said Monday.
The Department of Foreign Affairs won’t release internal records on ICE deportation flights via Shannon. “If they need to redact security information, then by all means, redact it, but not releasing any documents at all doesn’t instil confidence in the system here.”
Despite a car-park fee increase, more people are taking the train from Clonsilla station, Irish Rail says. The council increased fees at a car park near the station, and some councillors worried it'd push people to drive into town instead of commuting by train.
It's time for Fingal to take legal action to stop Manna drones flying from Coolmine base, a councillor says. The council rejected a planning application for the base, but that hasn't stopped Manna, which says it's still flying and "considering the next steps available to us".
The council has identified Clongriffin as potential site for a new cultural and artistic centre. A 2021 cultural infrastructure audit found that there was a big swathe of the northeast of the city that did not have any cultural buildings nearby.
While in Dublin, a journalist is offering a talk on using Instagram to document ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. “I try to make things easy for people to see,” says journalist Leila Warah, who focuses on one aspect of life under apartheid in each short video.
To date, Dublin City Council’s shopfront improvement scheme has covered the Liberties, Ballymun and Finglas.
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“If they need to redact security information, then by all means, redact it, but not releasing any documents at all doesn’t instil confidence in the system here.”
“It is not harmless behaviour – it is the premeditated, attempted destruction of a key environmental asset.”
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The council increased fees at a car park near the station, and some councillors worried it'd push people to drive into town instead of commuting by train.
The council rejected a planning application for the base, but that hasn't stopped the company, which says it is still flying and "considering the next steps available to us".
So instead of being kept cosy with waste heat from the Poolbeg incinerator, the apartments are using heat pumps, the council project manager said Monday.
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A 2021 cultural infrastructure audit found that there was a big swathe of the northeast of the city that did not have any cultural buildings nearby.
