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Redevelopment of Manhattan Café site blocked despite budget warning
- Environment
- May 16, 2019, 01:00
The redevelopment of the Manhattan Café site at Kelly’s Corner, Dublin, has been blocked by city councillors despite warnings from council management (...)

Dublin councillors approve affordable housing scheme
- Social Affairs
- May 13, 2019, 21:04
An affordable housing scheme which discriminates against Dubliners who have had to leave the capital because of high rents has been approved by counci(...)

Fast broadband, quick bucks and another PR bellyflop
- Politics
- May 9, 2019, 07:56
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(...)

Dublin Central report: lowest turnout but among strongest support for repeal
- Politics
- May 26, 2018, 17:03
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(...)

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

Councillors approve PPP plans for 500 homes
- Social Affairs
- April 3, 2017, 21:08
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(...)

Homeless aid spend in Dublin to rise by €30m
- Social Affairs
- November 15, 2016, 01:00
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(...)

O’Devaney Gardens redevelopment faces major delay
- Social Affairs
- August 1, 2016, 01:00
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(...)

Demolition of O’Devaney Gardens to be completed
- Social Affairs
- July 26, 2016, 01:00
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 (...)

Barack Obama freedom of Dublin hangs in balance
- Politics
- July 25, 2016, 20:10
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(...)