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The €1.4 million sale of the old Manhattan Cafe has been blocked by Dublin city councillors. Photograph: Laura Hutton/ The Irish Times
Redevelopment of Manhattan Café site blocked despite budget warning

The redevelopment of the Manhattan Café site at Kelly’s Corner, Dublin, has been blocked by city councillors despite warnings from council management (...)

Housing under the scheme will be built on local authority land and be offered for sale at a discounted price. File photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
Dublin councillors approve affordable housing scheme

An affordable housing scheme which discriminates against Dubliners who have had to leave the capital because of high rents has been approved by counci(...)

Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Paschal Donohoe rejected advice from a senior civil servant about the broadband plan. Photo: Gareth Chaney Collins
Fast broadband, quick bucks and another PR bellyflop

The controversy surrounding the huge cost of the National Broadband Plan is growing nearly as quickly as the list of zeros at the end of bill. Ou(...)

Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald. Photograph: Collins
Dublin Central report: lowest turnout but among strongest support for repeal

If Dublin Central stood out as a constituency in the referendum it was for its low turnout but its high support for repeal of the Eighth Amendment. W(...)

People protest outside the Department of Health in Dublin at plans to grant ownership of the new National Maternity Hospital to the Sisters of Charity religious order. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
Hundreds protest over National Maternity Hospital ownership

Some 200 people protested at the Department of Health on Thursday afternoon against the Government’s plans to give the new National Maternity Hospital(...)

The council management wants to start the process of seeking a project group to develop all six sites this month. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
Councillors approve PPP plans for 500 homes

Plans to build 500 social homes in Dublin and its surrounding commuter counties using a public private partnership (PPP) deal, have been approved by D(...)

Dublin City Council chief executive Owen Keegan expects to have received €78.6 million in funding from the Department of Housing for homelessness by the end of this year. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Homeless aid spend in Dublin to rise by €30m

Almost €120 million is to be spent providing homeless services in Dublin city next year – nearly €30 million more than the council budgeted for this y(...)

Built in the 1950s, O’Devaney Gardens was to have been redeveloped under a public-private partnership between the council and developer Bernard McNamara, but the deal collapsed in 2008. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill
O’Devaney Gardens redevelopment faces major delay

The redevelopment of O’Devaney Gardens, one of Dublin’s bleakest flat complexes, is facing significant delays because of a decision to make it a publ(...)

Flats at O’Devaney Gardens, off the North Circular Road, Dublin. File photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
Demolition of O’Devaney Gardens to be completed

The demolition of the last remaining blocks of flats in O’Devaney Gardens, one of Dublin’s most troubled and dilapidated complexes, is to go ahead in (...)

President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, is greeted by well-wishers at College Green, Dublin in 2011. Photograph: Eric Luke
Barack Obama freedom of Dublin hangs in balance

A proposal to award US President Barack Obama with the Freedom of the City of Dublin has had to be postponed after councillors were unable to agree on(...)

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