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Months on, council still investigating ethics complaints against independent councillor

1 day ago | dublininquirer.com | Laoise Neylon

Last October, People Before Profit Councillor Conor Reddy filed complaints with Dublin City Council about another councillor. He alleged that his constituency colleague in the North West Area, independent Councillor Gavin Pepper, had breached the council’s code of conduct. Dublin City Council is investigating the complaints, says Reddy, but – eight months later – has yet to issue any findings.
Apprenticeship system is backlogged and underfunded, say unions

1 day ago | dublininquirer.com | Laoise Neylon

Unions representing construction workers and apprentices say the apprenticeship system isn’t able to meet existing demand for training college spots – let alone handle more. “In the midst of a housing crisis, it is unacceptable that the apprenticeships, which are so critical to the construction sector, are being under-resourced,” said Unite regional officer James McCabe on Wednesday. There is a shortage of funding for apprenticeships, he said. Indeed, says Karl Byrne, a sector organiser in SIPTU.
Dublin councils are to look at buying or building homeless hostels

1 week ago | dublininquirer.com | Laoise Neylon

Councils in the Dublin region are looking at whether they should change tack, and buy or build facilities for homeless accommodation rather than rent them as they often do at the moment. “This is not a plan to end homelessness in Dublin, regrettably,” said Mary Hayes, director of the Dublin Region Homeless Executive (DRHE) on Tuesday, as she presented the new draft homeless action plan to councillors.
Council on track to deliver about 2,000 new social homes this year, says housing manager

1 week ago | dublininquirer.com | Laoise Neylon

Dublin City Council is on track to meet its social housing target for this year, said Mick Mulhern, the council’s housing manager on Tuesday. The council was tasked, under “Housing for All”, the government’s housing strategy, with “delivering” almost 9,090 new social homes from 2022 to 2026. That figure includes its own direct builds, those built or bought by housing charities and the Land Development Agency, and those “Part V” homes it buys as slices of big private developments.
Things to Do: Admire a 13th-century manuscript, reflect on the demolition of a church, and pub-quiz an exhibition into existence

1 week ago | dublininquirer.com | Michael Lanigan

Our PicksOur recommendations – no sponsored content, or adverts, just stuff we like. Words for my Comrades, a political history of Tupac ShakurOver in Hen’s Teeth this evening, our music columnist Dean Van Nguyen will be launching his latest book, Words for my Comrades: a political history of Tupac Shakur.
In Garristown, two students campaign for better bus service

1 week ago | dublininquirer.com | Michael Lanigan

The bus stop on the northern outskirts of Garristown wasn’t giving away too much information about the service passengers could expect. It didn’t say which buses would come, or where they would go. There wasn’t a stop number to let people check its status on the Transport for Ireland real-time webpage. It just said the word “bus”. And at a quarter to two, a squat white local link carriage pulled up.
In Ringsend, the historical society is building an archive of photos and more

1 week ago | dublininquirer.com | Michael Lanigan

Ger Siggins measures his father Brian’s collection of documents about Ringsend through the ages in rooms. “It’s several rooms now,” he said in early June. Brian Siggins was a local historian, and the author of The Great White Fair, a book detailing the Irish International Exhibition of 1907 in Herbert Park. He passed away in November 2020, leaving behind boxes stuffed with history and the evolution of Ringsend, Sandymount, and Irishtown, he says. “It was right back to the first settlements.
No extra money yet for council to roll out actions put forward by Taoiseach’s Taskforce for Dublin

2 weeks ago | dublininquirer.com | Laoise Neylon

City Desk No extra money yet for council to roll out actions put forward by Taoiseach’s Taskforce for Dublin Councillors said that they feel the city was just used as the backdrop for a pre-election PR campaign. Laoise Neylon Jun 12, 2025 O'Connell Street. Photo by Sam Tranum. June 12 2025 10:29 PM 4 min read Share Author Laoise Neylon is a reporter at Dublin Inquirer. You can reach her at [email protected].
As the government blocks funding for major social housing projects, coalition councillors point fingers

2 weeks ago | dublininquirer.com | Laoise Neylon

Two blocks of councillors tabled motions at Dublin City Council’s monthly meeting on Monday, condemning a decision to drop funding at the last hour for 243 social homes with planning permission. Last week, Minister for Housing James Browne, a Fianna Fáil TD, said he wouldn’t proceed with funding the homes under a public-private partnership (PPP) agreement due to costs, said Mick Mulhern, the council’s housing manager. The impact of abandoning the PPP model is likely to go further.
Things To Do: Hungarian Impressionism, the digital remastering of "Cal", and a poignant personal film from Gaza

2 weeks ago | dublininquirer.com | Michael Lanigan

Our PicksOur recommendations – no sponsored content, or adverts, just stuff we like. A Common Place, Zsolt BastiZsolt Basti has a rare skill for capturing on canvas the haze of memories, combining defined figures with indistinct facial expressions, and it is a thrill to either stumble on one of his works at a group exhibition, or in this case, to find out that he launched a solo show in the Molesworth Gallery last Thursday.