Olivia Kelly

Olivia Kelly

Olivia Kelly is a staff reporter with The Irish Times. Her main area of responsibility is the coverage and analysis of Dublin city news. Her writing also focuses on environmental and social issues with an emphasis on housing, water, and waste provision for the wider Dublin area and nationally.

Dublin City Council receives about 50,000 requests each year from existing tenants seeking repairs to their homes. Photograph: Frank Miller
€18 million to be spent on Dublin City Council housing repairs

External contractors to be used for the work over a three-year period

Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan: has urged those who have still not paid the household charge, to do so before July 1st. Photograph: Dylan Vaughan
€1m in withheld household charge tax to be repaid

Amount held back from local authorities in penalties to be reimbursed by Minister

A homeless women in one of the rooms in the Camden Hall hostel in Dublin.
Ireland’s biggest homeless hostel to close

New facilities to be provided for 90 homeless people

New rules, approved by Dublin City Councillors this week, require all householders and businesses to have their waste collected by “an approved collector” or disposed of at a proper waste facility
Dubliners will have to prove how they dispose of waste

Restrictions will also be placed on waste collectors

From January 1st next year all statutory responsibilities for water services, together with all water and sewage infrastructure currently controlled by local authorities, will transfer to Irish Water.
Dublin businesses may have to pay more for water

No agreement on Irish Water principles ahead of June deadline

Approval for some 950 new bicycles and 58 additional hire points has been given.
Councillors approve €35m plan for Dublin bikes expansion

Work to provide 950 new bikes to start in October

THE flats complex at Crampton Buildings, Temple Bar, Dublin. Photograph: Eric Luke
One of Dublin’s oldest flat complexes to be redeveloped

Work on Crampton buildings to start in autumn

Sandycove, Co Dublin. Once complete, the Sutton to Sandycove cycleway will provide a 22km continuous off-road cycle route around Dublin bay. Photograph: Eric Luke
Work to start on Dublin Bay cycle path

Sutton to Sandycove cycleway will provide a 22km off-road cycle route

Minister of State for Tourism and Sport Michael Ring: “Fáilte Ireland is working closely with the golf sector to build further on our success rate.” Photograph: Cyril Byrne
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