The old three-storey corner building at 19 Buckingham Street Lower in the north inner-city, is boarded up, the brickwork stained and faded. It’s owned these days by the council. And, in December, a ...

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The numbers spiked after a new cohort of councillors was elected in June 2024, and have eased somewhat since then – while ...

CCTV cameras put up in the north inner-city in August to combat illegal dumping haven’t caught anyone yet. So said a report from Barry Woods, Dublin City Council’s head of waste management, that was ...

A landmark somewhere in Dublin 15 should be renamed after celebrated cyclist Bertie Donnelly, says Labour Party Councillor Mary McCamley. A park or maybe a road, she said, at a meeting of the ...

Doug Finnegan walked out of the water in a swimsuit and sea shoes to protect his feet from the stings of weever fish. He has swum in the sea every day at 6am for decades, he says. Although not always ...

In 2019, the stretch of Griffith Avenue between Ballymun Road and Ballygall Road East was a four-lane carriageway with a 60kph speed limit. By 2023, cycle lanes had been put in on either side, ...

At Lincoln Place, a road that forks northwards from the National Gallery in the heart of town, an illuminated billboard flashes above a cafe. The council granted permission in 2024 to replace an ...

People living in private rentals who are reliant on subsidies such as the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) could be particularly hard-hit by proposed rent increases for social tenants, say councillors ...

Sinn Féin TD Paul Donnelly says residents at a new housing development near Hollystown, Wilkinsons Brook, started to contact him within months of moving in. It was “in relation to issues of water ...

In the run-up to the 1916 Rising, police were closely watching the four-storey red-brick Georgian building at 41 Parnell Square West, says historian Liz Gillis. It was the headquarters of the ...