Cabra Youth Service at Risk
As a founding member I am pround to have been involved from day one with Cabra for Youth and we recently celebrated our fourth year working with and supporting young people in Cabra. A question mark now hangs over the future of the highly successful Youth Service because the Minister for Youth and Children has not yet […]
DCU Innovation Campus
I was very interested in the recent announcement widely covered in the media of a new DCU Innovation Campus. The story ran that a new innovation centre is set to create 500 new jobs in Glasnevin. With unemployment continuing to run high in Dublin City this was indeed a very welcome headline. Unfortunately the story itself is maybe […]
Educate Together 2nd Level
I have long supported the campaign for Educate Together 2nd level schools in Dublin. There is strong demand for a 2nd level Educate Together School and a number of ideal sites in Dublin Central. There is a public meeting taking place this Wednesday 23rd January @ 7.30pm in Wynns Hotel on Abbey Street. The guest speaker […]
Grangegorman Public Realm
The Grangegorman Development Agency has applied to Dublin City Council for Planning permission for the construction of the public realm and site infrastructure and includes that part of the public thoroughfare Grangegorman Upper and Grangegorman Lower, all located within a 28.69 Hectares Strategic Development Zone (SDZ) at Grangegorman, Dublin 7.The application is for a 10 […]
Comhghairdeas Gealscoil Bharra
Mary with Muinteoir Sean Dublin City Council recently granted planning permission to the Department of Education to build a purpose built school for Gealscoil Bharra on Fassaugh Road. This is great news for the children, parents and teachers of Gealscoil Bharra whose long campaign I have consistently supported over the years. I have asked […]
Excessive Salary
I was really shocked and outraged to learn of the salary being awarded for the Head of Student Services at UCC. In any “normal” circumstances a salary of almost €150,000 would be very generous but in the current economic circumstances it is excessive and obscene. I have emailed the Ministers for Education, Finance and Public Expenditure & […]
DIT Sports Center Bannow Road
I support the planning application from DIT for a new sports and recreation facility in the old Hannay site on Bannow Road at Broombridge. The facility will be operated by DIT and include a gym, café, sports shop, all weather pitch, car and coach parking. It will be open to other groups and members of […]
Corpus Christi Girls N.S.
The board of management of Corpus Christi Girls National School on Homefarm Road has applied to Dublin City Council for planning permission to replace a prefab classroom with a permanent single story classroom and linking corridor to the main school. For full details of the planning application please click here. Mary
Gealscoil Bharra
Following years of campaigning the realisation of a purpose built school for Gealscoil Bharra in Cabra has moved one giant step further this summer with the submission of an application for planning permission for an 8 classroom, three storey school on the Fassaugh Avenue site. As a City Councillor I have consistently supported the campaign […]
Creative & Vacant Spaces in the City
Dublin City Council is working with landlords of vacant buildings and creative artists in the City to match their needs. The pilot project includes three properties in the Central Area and the City Council is inviting property owners right across the city to contact them and get on the register of Vacant Spaces. Mary