Local News
Weekly Dublin 8 Planning Updates – Week Starting 18/05/14
A rather large development for the Vicar Street venue on Thomas Street has applied for an extension of duration of permission.
At the rear of Vicar Street’s music venue, a new 8 storey hotel is proposed. The hotel developed will contain up to 194 bedrooms, a bar and restaurant and creative artist...
Dublin 8 May Events
Improv Asylum’s Main Stage Show
Improv Asylum is a comedy theatre featuring improvisation and sketch comedy (think Whose Line is it Anyway? meets Saturday Night Live!). We have performed more than 10,000 shows for well over 2 million people.
Venue:
Tivoli Theatre
Dates:
May 22nd, 2014, 20:00
From:
2014-05-22...
Rosie Hackett Bridge to open next week!
The bridge connecting Marlbough Street and Hawkins Street was first proposed in 2009 to ease congestion on O’Connell Bridge just a few a metres away and to carry the new southbound LUAS track (connecting Red and Green lines). The project was then operating under the name “Marlborough Street Public...
Ringsend Community Concert Last Mayday
On May Day (Bank Holiday Monday), I was invited to attend a concert in Ringsend. The concert opened with the famous Dublin All Stars Marching Band and The Finglas Marching Band, who’s booming music could be heard all over the quays. They led a great parade through the streets starting at Ringsend...
Weekly Dublin 8 Planning Updates – Week Starting 22/04/14
The big news in this week’s planning permission is permission has been granted for a large residential development in Clancy Barracks. The residential units will be built in the existing barracks as it is a protected structure. The oldest of the barracks dates from the late 18th century and has been...
Rubbish Left Uncollected and Illegal Dumping in Fatima
Local people living in the Pimm Street of the Dublin 8 area, have again expressed deep concern over bins been left on pavements and the failure of the refuse services to collect on time. It has been noticed that some private refuse collectors are leaving some of their bags till late in the evening,...
Weekly Dublin 8 Planning Updates – Week Starting 21/04/14
Our apologies for the delay in posting last week’s planning updates, there were a number of technical issues that needed to be contended with but are now running smoothly.
The big use in last week’s planning updates (sorry again!) was the regeneration of St Theresa Garden’s has entered an “Observations”...
A new Community Garden in Fatima
There was a very light breeze blowing gently and the butterflies were dancing around the plants and the flowers. With the sun hitting the high teens and there I was sitting in a garden fit for a king, you could be forgiven for thinking you were in a foreign land. However, I was local, in Fatima to...
Dublin’s Elected Mayor – Democracy On A Hairpin
The Green Party were the first of the main political parties (and I use that term loosely given their present circumstances) to propose the idea of a directly Elected Mayor for Dublin. It is an idea that immediately caused controversy, governments, as a rule, are usually quite reluctant to devolve...
E – Cig Ban on Darts and Iarnrod Eireann Trains
Irish Rail has recently banned the use of Electric Cigarettes on trains and Dart services. The new ruling, which has already come into affect by Irish Rail and is only at the early stages. Posters have been put up in all Dart and train stations across Dublin & Ireland with details of the new policy.
The...
Cork Street Campaign Report published
The Cork Street Park Campaign has recently released its report following a meeting it held on the 20th of February in the Dublin Food Co-Op premises in Newmarket. The meeting was a huge success and an excellent example of a well run community development project, as 80 people attended and each was...
