Sunni Bean

3 weeks ago | dublininquirer.com | Sunni Bean

Dublin City Council should “refuse all planning applications for drone delivery services” until certain conditions are met, a council committee agreed last week. For example, before drones start delivering toasties and tacos in the city, any prospective operator should submit a “comprehensive Noise Impact Assessment”, said a motion from Fine Gael Councillor Gayle Ralph, which the committee backed.  But the council is probably moving too late.

1 month ago | dublininquirer.com | Sunni Bean

On a Thursday afternoon at 2pm, kids streamed out of Stapolin Educate Together National School. At the entrance, some grabbed the hands of waiting parents and followed them to cars. Others grabbed their scooters and bicycles out of a long line of miniature vehicles parked under an awning, and followed their parents out the black gates. Special needs assistant Samantha O’Flanagan managed some kids crossing Myrtle Road. She and other school staff members often do that, she said.

1 month ago | dublininquirer.com | Sunni Bean

The Flavours of Fingal festival is “the flagship event in the county”, said Fingal County Council events manager Paul Barnes, at a council committee meeting on 8 May. Sinn Féin Councillor John Smyth agreed. “It’s kind of the jewel in our crown of events, ” he said, at the meeting of the Balbriggan/Rush-Lusk/Swords Area Committee. But the annual two-day food and culture festival has also gotten really expensive, councillor officials have said.

1 month ago | dublininquirer.com | Sunni Bean

The Broadmeadow Greenway should be ready to open in 2027, according to a recent report to Fingal councillors. That’s a year later than last quoted. The end-date for the greenway – which, once finished, should steer cyclists and ramblers through a wildlife haven and run for 6km between Malahide and Donabate –  has seen several delays.

1 month ago | dublininquirer.com | Sunni Bean

On a recent Saturday afternoon, Duncan Byrne sat in his wheelchair on a footpath on Mount Prospect Avenue in Clontarf, waiting for his family who had just unloaded the chair from their car. They’d found this disabled spot and grabbed it. They were glad to have it, Byrne said – even if it wasn’t the very closest to St Anne’s Park, where they were headed. It was a sunny spring day. In the park, the food trucks were out, and musicians had put out guitar cases for change and kids danced.