The long-stalled Sandymount cycleway has been granted approval to proceed following a pivotal Court of Appeal ruling. However, how Dublin City Council plans to act on the judgement remains unclear. The High Court had originally ruled in favour of a local resident, Peter Carvill of the Serpentine Avenue,
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In 2002 a report by Barry and Partners noted that a flood warning system should be installed linking gages in the Dodder catchment and water level records in the river to a central control system. This contributed to the development of two tidal flood forecasting and warning systems
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Deputy James Geoghegan has been highlighting the need to extend the Luas Red Line from The Point through Ringsend and Irishtown, via a planned docklands bridge across the Liffey. Construction of the latter is expected to begin by 2027.
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Well-known Dublin 4 pub, Smyth’s of Haddington Road, is to be fully demolished and rebuilt following the granting of planning permission by Dublin City Council. The pub’s website describes it as “one of Dublin’s great pubs” and a “D4 Gem”. It has long been popular with an eclectic,
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Donnybrook, once a thriving village, has in recent years succumbed to the invasion of the dreaded high-rise. With the new monstrosity at the bottom of Eglinton Road, and a six-storey, 85-unit co-living complex where Kiely’s once stood already a fait accompli (adding to that the disappearance
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Sadly, this notice appeared recently in the post office in Ballsbridge. The post office – once the hub of the community, the place where people met to collect their pension, get stamps, or send parcels to loved ones in far off lands. Of course the real reason we went in was to catch up
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The East Link Bridge replaced the numerous ferries that carried traffic across the river. The bridge which is a bascule bridge or a moveable bridge (particularly common in Belgium) was opened to road traffic in 1984. RTÉ noted that, “in its first 12 hours of operation
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It’s no secret that Dublin is going through a big housing crisis. Dublin accounts for 70 per cent of all homeless people with 6,935 adults and 3,165 children without homes in the capital. This means that the number of homeless in Dublin city surpassed 10,000 for the first time in March of
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DCC Chief Executive, Owen Keegan presented a report to the July meeting of the South East Area Committee on the proposed works to convert the historic St Werburgh’s church for use principally as
an arts venue.
The chimneys are often referred to colloquially as the Pigeon House, the name of the original generation station that first generated electricity in July 1903. That station itself took its name from the caretakers lodge built to provide refreshments for workers building the Great South Wall,
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