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Dublin City Council has long wanted to redevelop the properties that form the heart of Phibsborough village

Deal done on Phibsborough shopping centre and Dalymount sites

Settlement between Dublin City Council and developers will enable redevelopment

Impression of Liffey Street plaza. Courtesy of DHB Architects

Businesses dispute council’s plans for Liffey Street Plaza

Dublin City Centre Traders Alliance say plans must be sent to An Bord Pleanála

Cllr Ciaran Cuffe said it was ‘an extraordinary outage’. Photograph: Frank Miller

Thousands of objections disappear from Dublin planning portal

Dublin City Council says 29,000 third-party objections were ‘unpublished in error’

Schoolgirl Greta Thunberg (centre) during a demonstration calling for climate action in Stockholm last Friday. Photograph: Elisabeth Ubbe/New York Times

Adults have abdicated climate responsibility, says energy expert

Dublin seminar told failure of global response is forcing young people to protest

Colbinstown enclosure in Co Kildare. Photograph: Google Earth images

Google Earth images show 50 undiscovered ancient monuments

Photographs taken during summer drought highlight archaeological sites

A revised route for the Dublin MetroLink rail line will be published within weeks, the National Transport Authority has said.

MetroLink route to be published within weeks

Revised route of Swords to Sandyford rail line due in early March, NTA says

Two riders on lake trail. Image: Victor Lucas

More than 300km of mountain-biking trails planned

State to invest €13.6m to make sport an ‘international proposition’ in Ireland

Bees spend their entire lives feeding on nectar and pollen while helping to fertilise plants. In Ireland there are 100 species of bee; 50% are in decline, a third are threatened with extinction, Photograph: Getty Images

Species decline doesn’t just happen elsewhere. It’s a serious Irish problem

When was the last time you had to clean your windscreen during the summer months?

Why is there frogspawn in my garden already? Readers’ nature queries

Ethna Viney on starling murmurations, early-bird hedgehogs and cobalt crust fungus

Most pollination in Ireland is carried out by bees as they feed their young exclusively on pollen

Pollinator friendly: Six ways you can help bees and butterflies thrive

Here’s how to make your garden a haven for hungry pollinators

Ecologist Dr Tomás Murray, when asked if the threat of ‘catastrophic collapse of nature’s ecosystems’ was being detected in Ireland, said: ‘Sadly yes, across the 120 sites in our butterfly monitoring scheme our recorders have detected an average annual decline of 2.6 per cent over the past 10 years.’

Irish butterfly monitoring scheme detects decline above global average

Almost 20% of insects are in decline and 13% are threatened while 7% have conservation status

Friends of the Irish Environment director Tony Lowes (front) and colleagues pictured on Friday morning. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

Developers of Shannon gas processing terminal ordered not to begin construction

Case brought by Friends of Irish Environment referred to Europe by High Court judge

The report also finds that the build-to-rent sector tends to supply apartments to the premium end of the market “unsuitable for people on average incomes”. Photograph: iStock

Potential price-setting power of institutional landlords flagged

Department of Finance report warns about dangers of concentrations of ownership

A senior planning inspector said the provision of student accommodation accorded with the council’s policies and national policies. Photograph: Getty Images

Almost 300 more student beds for Grangegorman

Seven-storey development granted despite concerns of ‘over-concentration’ of students

James Gill and Ian Delacey of Dublin City Council Parks and Gardens Department working in Merrion Square this week.Photograph: Alan Betson

Spell of warm weather to continue into the weekend

This time last year country shivered ahead of big freeze

Irish Water managing director Eamon Gallen: ‘We want to avoid people paying these charges not to enforce them.’

Raw sewage from 86,000 people flows into Irish waterways daily – EPA

Environment agency criticises failure to tackle health threat problem quickly enough

A report by Cambridge Econometrics and Eurofound’s European Jobs Monitor concludes implementing the Paris Climate Change agreement will result in 1.1 per cent growth in GDP and 0.5 per cent growth in employment. Photograph: iStock

Implementing climate change agreement would boost jobs, EU report finds

Paris Agreement on climate change would also boost economic growth in the EU

Irish Cosmetics, Detergents and Allied Products Association director Siobhán Dean said use of synthetic, solid plastic particles in exfoliating and cleansing products that were non-biodegradable would be phased out by 2020. Photograph: Getty Images

Microbeads pervasive in Irish freshwater and marine areas, new research confirms

Minute plastics found in all samples and invertebrate species in River Slaney catchment

This week will be milder than normal for this stage in February, with temperatures of up to 14 degrees Photograph: The Irish Times

This week’s weather will be mild and windy with showers

Met Éireann says Ireland is set for mild few days with temperatures rising to 14 degrees

Paul Reid, chief executive of Fingal County Council Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times

Northside metro must not be held back by southside problems – Fingal chief

Paul Reid calls for Metrolink to Swords to go ahead independent of southern section

The number of days with heavy rainfall and the number of extreme flooding events has risen in the past decade. Photograph: Eric Luke Staff

Four Dublin councils unveil plans to fight climate change

Plans focus on energy, buildings, transport, flood resilience and resource management

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