Local Policing Forum
There will be a public Local Policing Forum consultative meeting for the Shandon Phibsborough area on Thursday 29th November at 8pm in the Club Room, St Peter’s Church. This is an opportunity for people living and working the area to meet with the Gardai, Dublin City Council and elected representatives to discuss and address issues […]
Iona Road Public Lighting
At the November meeting of Dublin City Council I requested that the street lighting on Iona Road be improved to address concerns over public safety following the mugging of an elderly couple on Iona Road one evening in October 2012. Following is the reply I recieved from the City Manager: CITY MANAGER’S REPLY: The lighting […]
Halloween Safety
As Chair of the Dublin Central Joint Policing Committee public safety is a major priority for me throughout the year but Halloween presents certain extra risks. The Gardai and Dublin City Council have assured me that all available resources are being applied in an integrated plan in the Central area to reduce risk and increase public safety […]
Drumcondra & Glasnevin Local Community Policing Forum
The next meeting of the Drumcondra & Glasnevin local community policing forum will take place on wednesday 12th of September at 7pm in The Maples Hotel on Iona Road. Dublin City Council, Gardai, elected representatives attend the forum meeting to address issues of concern for the local community. This meeting is open to any member […]
Review of Special Event Licences needed
Dublin City Council must review how Special Event Licences are sanctioned in Dublin following July’s concerts in the Phoenix Park. I welcome the fact that MCD, the OPW, the Gardaí and Dublin City Council special Events Licensing Department attended the meeting of the Dublin Central Joint Policing Committee that I chaired today. The Phoenix Park […]
Joint Policing Committee
I will Chair the next meeting of the Dublin Central Joint Policing Committee in City Hall on Thursday September 6th at 9.30am. Items on the agenda include Garda reports for Dublin Central, review of the concerts held in the Phoenix Park in July 2012 and the Strategic Response Groups report “A Better City for All”. The […]
Smithfield (NWIC) Local Policing Forum
The next meeting of the North West Inner City Policing Forum will be held on Wednesday the 5th of September 2012 in the Holy Family Parish Centre, 13 Prussia Street, Dublin 7. This meeting will be held from 7.00pm to 9.00pm. All members of the local area are invited to come along and address any issues […]
Phoenix Park Concerts
MCD, the event promoters for the Swedish House Mafia concert held in the Phoenix Park in July made contact with me today and we discussed my proposal to review the Phoenix Park concerts at the Dublin Central Joint Policing Committee. The role of the Joint Policing Committee is to review crime in the area, examine […]
Phoenix Park Concert
Click HERE to hear Mary speak on RTE’s Morning Ireland regarding the recent violence at the Phoenix Park concert. I welcome the report from the Garda Commissioner into the events which took place at the Swedish House Mafia concert on July 7th in the Phoenix Park. The report underlines the seriousness of the events, identifies significant issues […]
Phoenix Park Concerts
The Dublin City Manager, John Tierney, welcomed my idea to bring the issues raised relating to the concerts in the Phoenix Park to the JPC in September. In reponse to my request for all special event licences to be withheld until after the JPC he advised me that “Dublin City Council currently has a number of event […]