Affordable housing will never be delivered in Dublin City unless there is a change in Government policy and the State invests in its provision. O’Devaney Gardens is a 14 acre prime state-owned site in the heart of our capital city with enormous potential to deliver social and affordable homes. De-tenanting of the former local authority…
Category: Stoneybatter
Stoneybatter Greening
Dublin City Council propose developing a plan to increase greening in Stoneybatter. Dublin City Council are inviting local residents and businesses to get involved in designing the plan by participating in a number of workshops. For more information about the Greening project please click HERE and to register for the workshops please email: greeningstoneybatter@dublincity.ie
O’Devaney Gardens
It is more than three years since the Government proudly announced its intention to develop O’Devaney Gardens as its flagship housing development under Rebuilding Ireland. Today, following the absence of funding, government commitment and most of all, political will, O’Devaney remains a vacant, abandoned site and wasted opportunity to use public land to deliver desperately…
Fruit & Veg Market
Mary’s motion to re-develop the Fruit and Vegetable Market in Smithfield was unanimously supported at the September 2019 meeting of the Central Area Committee. The motion was as follows: The Central Area Committee support the expeditious re-opening of the former wholesale Fruit and Vegetable Market, Dublin 7 as a municipal fresh food and produce market…
O’Devaney Gardens
After more than ten years, on October 7th 2019, Dublin City Councillors will vote to accept or reject a proposal for the redevelopment of O’Devaney Gardens as detailed in the City Managers Proposal HERE. Mary believes public land such as O’Devaney Gardens should be used to provide affordable public housing. Unfortunately despite Government identifying O’Devaney…
BusConnects, Blanchardstown CBC
On September 10th, 2019 Mary attended the Blanchardstown CBC Community Forum organized by the NTA. You can see the full presentation HERE. There was a relatively small attendance at the meeting, certainly no more than 100 people from an area with a population of more than 10,000. Mary asked the NTA to relax their…
O’Devaney Gardens
Dublin City has become unaffordable for average earners to live in. One of the main reasons Mary sought election was to champion the delivery of affordable homes for working people in our community. Mary believes passionately that everyone should have a secure affordable home. Mary believes Dublin City needs to adopt the Vienna Housing Model…
The Complex
At a time when cultural space is under pressure in Dublin City Mary is a strong supporter of self-starting independent resilient artists initiatives like The Complex. Since 2009 the complex has created and sustained a home for artists in Dublin’s north inner city. Mary was delighted to go along to the opening of their latest…
Stirrup Lane Mural
Mary grew up in Dublin 7 and remembers when it was home to a vibrant, fruit, veg, fish and horse market. She admires and appreciates the significance of the Horse Boy mural on Stirrup lane, Dublin 7. The image in the mural is of an authentic indigenous Dublin 7 street character and the quality of…
Stoneybatter Defibrillator
Congratulations to Alan Ecock of Kavanaghs Pub who successfully campaigned to install a defibrillator in a traditional Irish phone box in Stoneybatter. On Saturday 10th of August 2019 Mary, deputising for the Lord Mayor of Dublin City, joined Alan Ecock, Stoneybatter residents, Heart of Ireland, Dublin City Council, Dublin Fire Service, An Gardaí, elected representatives…