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Entries Tagged as 'Dublin City Council'

Cheeky!

November 7th, 2011 · Comments Off on Cheeky! · Trot for the ARAS 2011

At the protocol meeting of Dublin City Councillors last week it was agreed by the Councillors that they should seek invitations to go to the inauguration on Friday for their Group Leaders in addition to the Lord Mayor. Members of the group were contacted today by an official in the City Managers office with the […]

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Taking Dublin Pride 2010 to Tallaght

February 7th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Equality, Irish Politics, LGBT

I was intrigued but not surprised on Saturday night to read Cllr Dermot Looney’s blog about wanting to bring Dublin Pride to Tallaght. I have long had difficulties with the Dublin Pride March and it’s lack of message and meaningless ending in a scuttle down the back of of Wood Quay hidden from everyone. South […]

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Affordable housing to get affordable?

January 21st, 2009 · 4 Comments · Affordable Housing

Since the crash/collapse of property prices in Dublin and the rest of the country there’s been a bit of a problem with affordable housing. It’s wasn’t affordable anymore. While there are several thousand people on the waiting list (Including yours truly) nobody is buying anything. The difference between the market price and the affordable price […]

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Can I ram raid them now? Pretty Please!!!

July 17th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Disability, eejit..

I know there has been a lot of commentary and citizen activismonline about those signs in the last few weeks. To recap briefly – Commuters and pedestrians have noted the dangers presented by the signage and many others have commented on the deal that was done, the cityscape that was sold and the execution of […]

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