New Mater Children’s Hospital
It is great to see the progress being made daily with the building of the new Mater General Hospital. Coming next will be the new National Childrens Hospital on the adjacent site. On Thursday 20th of January the development team are holding an open day in the Mater Hospital, Pillar Room from 3pm – 7pm. There will […]
New Pay & Display Rules
If you live on a road with Pay & Display parking you will be interested to know that Dublin City Councils Traffic Department have proposed a number changes to the “Parking control bye-laws” – these are the bye laws that define how Pay & Display works in the city. Among many changes, they are proposing […]
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 Library on the Navan Road and Dublin […]
Opportunities for Craftworkers
Do you know any unemployed Craftworkers in Dublin ? If so I would like to bring to your attention an initiative of the Lord Mayor’s Commission on Employment which provides upskilling in the field of energy efficiency in buildings to those in the construction sector (Plumbers, Carpenters, Bricklayers etc). Please contact Nial Dully for further information […]
Happy New Year !!!
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 […]