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A special plaque has been unveiled at a new ‘living wall’ outside Limerick City and County Council on Merchant’s Quay as Limerick gets ready to become a European Green Leaf City for 2020. Launched today by Mayor of the City and County of Limerick, Cllr Michael Sheahan, the plaque will take centre stage on the […]

Culture News

45 Christmas Trees and over 115,000 Christmas Lights Adorn Cork City

Cork City Council has installed over 45 Christmas trees throughout the city centre and its suburbs to kick start the city’s seasonal celebrations. The preparations for Cork’s Christmas celebration get underway on the 1stof November with 6 Cork City Council staff members and a crew of 17 electricians undertaking the task of lighting the streets […]

Financial News

Fingal County Council hosts launch of 19th edition of Dublin Economic Monitor

Fingal County Council hosted the launch of the 19th edition of the Dublin Economic Monitor where it was revealed that the capital is close to full employment, with the areas of finance, insurance and real estate activities hitting all-time highs, supported by Brexit relocations. Members of the business community, along with Mayor of Fingal Cllr Eoghan […]

Culture News

Closing date looms for 2020 Events and Festivals Financial Assistance Scheme

Applications from groups and organisations seeking financial assistance from Fingal County Council’s Events Section for Festivals and Events taking place in 2020 will close on Tuesday, 17 December 2019, at 3pm. Applications will be accepted for existing and/or new events or festivals which animate public spaces in creative and innovative ways and which are

Business News

Taoiseach warns we cannot take our strong economy for granted

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said we cannot afford to be complacent about the strong performance of our economy. He was speaking today (Friday) after a Special Cabinet in Trim, Co Meath, where the Government discussed measures for job creation, rural development and new technology which will be delivered in 2020. This includes: Helping people to […]

News

Council to spend over €12 million on roads maintenance in 2020

Donegal County Council will spend over €12,000,000 on roads maintenance in 2020. As well as repairs, cleaning, lining, and signage, winter gritting and the immediate response to flooding will also be covered. There are 6,446 kilometres of roads in Donegal, the vast majority of that made up of local roads, which account for 5,354 kms, […]

News Technology

Council divided amid debate on long-awaited broadband plan

The National Broadband Plan was tentatively welcomed in Cork County Hall following an intense debate among councillors. Fine Gael councillor John Paul O’Shea brought a motion to the council welcoming the adoption of the Government plan to roll out high-speed broadband to all parts of the country. Fianna Fáil councillor Seamus McGrath labelled the motion […]

Feature Housing News

Minister Murphy publishes Winter Rough Sleeper Count, Homeless Quarterly Progress Report and October Report on Homelessness

Commenting on these reports Minister Murphy said: “Rebuilding Ireland continues to put in place supports to help people out of homelessness. Today we see that those sleeping rough is at its lowest level since 2015 and the lowest since Rebuilding Ireland began. In October, there was a decrease of 23 families and 47 children in […]

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The Story of Water, a new documentary exploring the development and current state of Ireland’s public water network

By admin December 9, 2019

Understanding the role that water plays in our daily lives Research commissioned by Irish Water and conducted by B&A indicates that 44% of the Irish public admit they ‘know nothing or not very much’ about the work carried out by Irish Water and almost 80% of those surveyed say that they are interested in hearing […]

Housing News

Deferral of the Cork County Development Plan Review

By admin December 9, 2019

The commencement of the Cork County Development Plan Review has been DEFERRED in accordance with Section 11(1)(b)(i) which stipulates that where notice of a development plan review is due prior to the making of the relevant Regional Spatial and Economic Strategy, then notice of the review shall be deferred until not later than 13 weeks […]

Housing News

Statement by Minister Damien English to Dail Éireann on Housing Solutions

By admin December 9, 2019

There has been a lot of discussion in this House this week on housing and Rebuilding Ireland and unfortunately a lot of inaccurate and generalised commentary, from many of my colleagues across the floor. I think we all saw through the political stunt that was pulled here, last Tuesday evening. All I can say is […]

Feature News Transport

Blood Stoney Bridge – Plans for Pedestrian and Cycling Bridge Over the Liffey Released by Council

Dublin City Council has released new plans for a pedestrian and cycling bridge spanning the River Liffey in the Docklands, which it is calling the Blood Stoney Bridge. If built, it would stretch about 125 metres across the river from Sir John Rogerson’s Quay at Blood Stoney Road on the south said, to North Wall […]

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Limerick Twenty Thirty upholds city’s finest architectural standards with two major national wins

Limerick Twenty Thirty’s determination to maintain the proud architectural standards long since associated with the city has been recognised with two major awards on consecutive nights. The accolades kept coming for the already critically acclaimed Gardens International building as it claimed the prestigious Design Project of the Year at the KPMG Irish Independent

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Fingal County Council is 2019 Local Authority of the Year

Fingal had been nominated in 11 different categories and picked up two awards as Our Balbriggan was named Best Practice in Citizen Engagement andtheDublinBay Prawn Festival was named Festival of the Year. The Award was presented to the Mayor of Fingal, Cllr Eoghan O’Brien and the Chief Executive of Fingal County Council, AnnMarie Farrelly, by […]

Feature News

Contract awarded for 465 social housing units under Bundle 2 of PPP Programme

On behalf of the Department of Housing Planning and Local Government, the National Development Finance Agency (NDFA), part of the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA), today announced contract award of the Social Housing Bundle 2 PPP project to Torc Housing Partnership. Bundle 2 comprises eight sites for the development of 465 social housing homes across […]

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Who will be taking you home tonight?

The DRSWG Christmas Road Safety Campaign is encouraging all road users to ensure they have a safe way of travelling home from a night out over the Christmas & New Year holiday season. The campaign focuses on preventing drink driving over the festive period, asking “Who will be taking you home tonight?”. The image features […]

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Dublin’s new €2.5m greenway repeatedly flooded while under construction

Dublin’s new €2.5 million greenway between Baldoyle and Portmarnock has been hit by persistent flooding while still under construction. The new project has been taking shape of late and should be a very popular amenity with cyclists and walkers. At 1.8km in length the Baldoyle to Portmarnock greenway is the first phase of a long-term […]

Financial News

Fingal adopts budget of €269m for 2020

It is an increase of €32m from 2019 and is the equivalent of €911 per head of population. The 2020 Budget will enable the Council to continue managing the on-going demands of the fast-growing and youngest county in Ireland. The Mayor of Fingal, Cllr Eoghan O’Brien said: “The budget process began as soon as the […]

Feature News

Council votes in favour of controversial white water rafting proposal