Housing Grant Schemes
In July 2009 Dublin City Council Home Grants Section stopped accepting applications despite having received an increased allocation of more than €14m from the Government for grants in 2010. Since that time I have consistently raised this as an issue at Dublin City Council and requested DCC to release the funds and to re-open the […]
Garda Safety Cameras
An Garda Siochana have issued public guidance on where the new safety cameras are to be deployed across Ireland. The picture below shows those located in the Dublin Central area and environs (roads marked in red). Roads include Navan Road, Cabra Road, North Circular Road, Finglas Road, Phibsborough Road, North Strand and Ballybough Road. Click […]
Mature Students at DIT
With funding from the Government Labour Activation Fund the DIT will run a Mature Student Access Course starting on January 10th 2011 for people eligible under the Labour Market Activation Fund. The Mature Student access Course is designed for Mature Students (22 years of age on the 1st of January of the 2010) from areas […]
Organised Crime in Dublin
08.11.2010: Fitzpatrick welcomes robust Garda approach to organised crime in Dublin Central Cllr Mary Fitzpatrick, Chairperson of the Dublin Central Joint Policing Committee. “I congratulate the Gardai on the operation undertaken today in the North Inner City. Tackling organised crime and drug crime was a major priority for me, as chairperson of the Dublin Central […]
Grangegorman Development
Mary and her father Dermot, meet An Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, at the recent launch of the Grangegorman Development Project. In September the government gave the “green light” to the Grangegorman Development, which was great news not just for our area but the city and the country. The development of a DIT, HSE and Community Campus […]
Navan Road Bus Corridor
The Quality Bus Network Project Office is proposing to upgrade the Navan Road Bus Corridor from Cabra Cross to the Ashtown Roundabout. They are seeking planning permission through a Part 8 planning application. When they presented this proposal to the Central Area Committee I raised a number of issues with them and asked that they put […]
St Joseph’s Development
The re-development of St Josephs is moving ahead work should commence on the new community village early in the new year. This development will deliver new residential and community facilities for the deaf and wider community. To read more about this exciting development please click here.
Belvedere Grounds Development
There has been some speculation locally about redevelopment of the Belevedere grounds on the Navan Road. To the best of my knowledge, and up to when I last checked there is no planning application for development on these lands or the Dominican lands adjacent to Riverston. Both of these lands have become the focus of […]
De Paul Swimming Pool Funded
Minister Mary Hanafin today informed me that, following my representations over the past months, she has allocated €648,000 for the refurbishment of De Paul Swimming Pool on the Navan Road. This is great news for our area. In previous discussions with the Daughters of Charity they indicated that a refurbishment of the pool would cost […]
Reilly’s Bridge bottle-neck
Beginning of the End for Reilly’s Bridge bottle-neck: On Tuesday 21st of December 2010 Dublin City Council advertised its intention to apply to An Bord Pleanala for permission to build a fly-over bridge to replace the existing hump back bridge a.k.a. Reillys Bridge on the Ratoath Road. The plans are available to inspect in the Cabra […]