On the road: commuters may turn to cycling to economise, escape traffic jams or get in shape. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times

Teams of Lycra-clad cyclists haul themselves up the country’s mountains at weekends. Families take to parks, seaside promenades, canals and riversi(...)

Labour TD Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Fingal County Council will be putting the facility “beside the homes of residents in the Dublin City Council area who were not included in the consultation process”.    Photograph: Frank Miller

Plans for a wastewater treatment plant in Clonshaugh, north Dublin, have been criticised by local TDs who say the Fingal County Council facility will (...)

A sign erected near the site for the proposed new €500 million regional sewage treatment plant to be built at Clonshaugh, North Dublin. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish  Times

Dublin’s principal sewage treatment plant at Poolbeg stank to high heaven after it was upgraded several years ago to reduce pollution in the bay. Inde(...)

Residents in areas earmarked for large, infrastructure projects should receive compensation in the form of community projects, Fingal county councillo(...)

Dublin City Council, which Owen Keegan was this week appointed to head, is hugely overmanned, with 5,700 staff for a population of 577,000 in the city. Photograph: Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council

Twenty years ago when Owen Keegan was appointed as assistant city manager in charge of housing with Dublin Corporation (as it then was), you could alm(...)

A map showing the area of cycleway affected by the Blackrock Local Area Plan. Image: Irish Times Studio

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council has been accused of trying to scupper the Sutton to Sandycove (S2S) cycle and walkway project by proposing to re(...)

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland yesterday published details of 19 enforcement orders served in May for breaches of food safety legislation. Paci(...)

Computer-generated image of the student accommodation for Sir John Rogerson’s Quay

An Australian company involved in the provision of student accommodation has announced plans to spend €36 million on the development of a 313- bedroom(...)

Minister for Local Government Phil Hogan deserves credit for finally seeking to put in place a more rational relationship between the number of councillors in an area and the population there. Photograph: Eric Luke

The prospect of electoral boundary revisions inevitably causes a flutter among our politicians. The publication on Thursday of the Local Electoral Are(...)

The Dublin water supply system has operated below demand levels on a number of occasions in recent weeks as engineers battle an algal bloom problem at Roundwood, in Co Wicklow. Photograph: Cyril Byrne

Continuing problems with the Dublin regional water supply system have resulted in some homes being temporarily “uninhabitab(...)

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