Dublin’s vacant buildings: From the Iveagh Markets to the Rialto Cinema, here’s the story behind 16 empty properties From the Iveagh Market to the Rialto cinema, some of the striking historic buildings around the city that are being allowed to fall to piecesSat Sept 23 2023 - 06:00
Dublin’s vacant buildings: ‘It’s my property, I’ll do whatever I want with it’Many buildings in the city that could provide housing and bring areas to life are instead going to wasteSat Sept 23 2023 - 06:00
Dublin’s vacant buildings: Why more than 12,000 properties are empty in Ireland’s capitalGeoDirectory street-level analysis produces picture of vacancy types and duration for the first timeSat Sept 23 2023 - 05:00
Dublin’s 12,000 vacant buildings: The scale of the problem illustrated in four simple graphicsStreet level data gives first view of locations of empty residential, commercial and mixed buildings in Dublin city centreSat Sept 23 2023 - 05:00
Iveagh Markets to get €9m conservation funding to halt structural declineEdwardian building in Dublin’s Liberties, at centre of legal dispute and vacant for 30 years, to have ‘essential stabilisation works’ undertakenThu Sept 21 2023 - 14:52
Status yellow weather warnings issued for 15 counties as hurricanes’ remnants hit IrelandAtlantic depression leaves much of Ireland facing challenging spells of wind and rainTue Sept 19 2023 - 14:09
Domestic violence agency legislation to be put to Dáil in weeksNew agency to combat domestic, sexual and gender-based violence to begin operating in JanuaryMon Sept 18 2023 - 00:01
Four more arrested in connection with Galway car park incidentLatest arrests bring to 19 the number detained in connection with altercation one week agoSun Sept 17 2023 - 20:43
Blocking cars on parts of Dublin’s quays offers a chance to achieve what had seemed impossibleDraft Dublin City Centre Transport Plan lacks detail but has seeds of a pedestrian, cyclist and public transport-friendly cityThu Sept 14 2023 - 05:00
Plan proposes most radical restriction of private traffic in Dublin city for decadesCars to be banned from more areas to allow extra space for cyclists, pedestrians and public transportWed Sept 13 2023 - 16:08
Dublin City Council says it will not drop Smithfield horse fair restrictionsProtest held over new requirements for horse traders to supply PPS numbers to attend biannual fairTue Sept 12 2023 - 15:47
Yet another plan seeks to turn the fortunes of Dublin’s north inner cityNebulous community wardens proposal the main distinction from previous report for the areaFri Sept 08 2023 - 19:00
‘Community safety wardens’ to be deployed on Dublin streets under McEntee planStreets including O’Connell Street and Talbot Street to be ‘refreshed’ in wide-ranging plan tackling drugs, dumping and community healthFri Sept 08 2023 - 00:00
Land swap between HSE and Dublin City Council approved for Inchicore homesCouncillors also approve construction of 35 apartments on Berkeley Street in Dublin 7 by housing charity CabhrúMon Sept 04 2023 - 21:10
Owen Keegan bows out after 10 years as Dublin City Council chief executive‘All dictatorships must come to an end... even benevolent ones’: Tributes paid at official’s final council meetingMon Sept 04 2023 - 20:28
Report recommends 7,000 homes at site of former Dunsink, Dublin dump Fourteen Dublin locations, including rail hubs, identified for ‘intensive’ development of 130,000 homesMon Sept 04 2023 - 05:00
Temple Bar group seeks back lane closures to stop drug dealingArea plagued by ‘industrial scale’ drug dealing, assaults and muggings, says business and residents groupThu Aug 31 2023 - 21:47
Coastal cycling route to give public easier access to Dublin Port and ferriesMore than 16km of access will open parts of Dublin Bay to public for first timeFri Aug 25 2023 - 17:00
Wrong information on defects may have stopped tenant-in-situ purchaseFamily appealing Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council decision to OmbudsmanWed Aug 23 2023 - 05:00
Labour Party veteran Joe Costello bows out of politics aged 78Politician entered Seanad in 1989 and Dáil in 1992, later becoming a junior minister; he now retires as a city councillorFri Aug 18 2023 - 05:00
Plans revealed for twin 12-storey buildings at TU Dublin campusApplication to be submitted within weeks for tech firm Workday’s European headquarters at GrangegormanWed Aug 16 2023 - 20:22
Housing policy may be ‘incentivising’ urban vacancy, Trinity College report finds Research says Ireland’s planning systems ‘ill-equipped’ to bring derelict sites back into useWed Aug 16 2023 - 05:00
Work starts on 6km Malahide cycle path 14 years after rail viaduct collapseScheme is the first of three projects to run from Sutton to BalbrigganTue Aug 15 2023 - 05:00
Fingal County Council could challenge ruling on Dublin airport night flightsAirport operator DAA was last Tuesday granted a stay on a council order restricting night flightsSun Aug 13 2023 - 19:12
New family court complex at Hammond Lane in Smithfield faces major delaysOne of Dublin’s best-known vacant sites site was bought by State in late 1990sFri Aug 11 2023 - 05:00
Controversial charity to learn next month if it can redevelop Dublin senior citizens blockCabhrú has already issued tenders for demolition of McSweeney House on Berkeley Street in PhibsboroughWed Aug 09 2023 - 05:00
Derelict 14-storey Sandyford office block to be converted into apartmentsPlans lodged to complete Sentinel building, left unfinished since 2008Mon Aug 07 2023 - 05:15
Heritage groups urge State to buy last great Georgian mansion built in DublinCall comes as permission expires for Aldborough House office redevelopmentMon Aug 07 2023 - 05:00
People with alcohol problems increasingly combining drink and cocaine, HRB saysCocaine surpasses cannabis as the most common additional drug among problem drinkersTue Aug 01 2023 - 18:46
Dublin City Council to stop cutting grass verges in effort to encourage biodiversityChanges to maintenance plans branded ‘absolute shocking disgrace’ as locals are told to leave grass they cut themselvesSat Jul 22 2023 - 05:00
What is in the proposed new Dundrum Local Area Plan?Car drivers will not be banned but will be inconvenienced to allow space for buses, cyclists and pedestriansFri Jul 21 2023 - 05:00
Cost-rental net income limits to increase up to €66,000State funding of €750 million being made available to entice private developers into cost-rental schemeTue Jul 18 2023 - 20:28
Clonburris: How do you build a brand new town of 9,000 homes in less than a decade?First houses at Clonburris in west Dublin to go on sale in SeptemberSat Jul 15 2023 - 05:00
Water warning issued to several counties including Dublin and CorkAlmost 83,000 households and businesses in Waterford and Tipperary are under boil water noticesThu Jul 13 2023 - 16:55
Chickenpox vaccine should be administered to children, Hiqa advisesFirst five years of programme could cost €13-€28 million, depending on number of doses givenThu Jul 13 2023 - 10:32
Former Fianna Fáil politician Ben Briscoe dies aged 89Veteran politician was lord mayor of Dublin during the city’s millennium yearMon Jul 10 2023 - 23:51
RTÉ staff canteen closed over suspected rat infestationBroadcaster confirms it has closed its main restaurant for the second time this year amid ‘evidence of rodent activity’Mon Jul 10 2023 - 19:44
Car crashes on to Baggot Street from car park over shopsGardaí believe driver may have misjudged acceleration of vehicleMon Jul 10 2023 - 00:20
Man dies following swimming incident in WaterfordSwimmer got into difficulty at Guillamene cove in TramoreSun Jul 09 2023 - 21:45
Body found in search for teenager missing on Achill holiday Gardaí stand down search for Sebastian Palma Sigmond (18) who had been missing since Friday, July 7thSun Jul 09 2023 - 14:55
‘I can’t sleep. I can’t eat’: south Dublin family facing eviction ‘due to apartment management fee’ Housing crisis: Family and landlord’s representative say council backed out of tenant-in-situ purchase due to €3,600 annual feeSat Jul 08 2023 - 03:30
Thousand-year-old skeletons discovered off Capel Street in Dublin cityMore than 100 skeletons excavated from site of Bullitt Hotel development off Capel StreetFri Jul 07 2023 - 18:48
Dublin City Council approves plans for up to 3,800 homes in north DublinLabour councillor Joe Costello retired after 35 years in politics, serving as senator, TD and Dublin city councillorMon Jul 03 2023 - 21:29
Plans to create new ‘town’ of up to 8,000 people in north DublinRegeneration of Jamestown Business Park in Finglas will include thousands of homes, a primary school and employment facilitiesMon Jul 03 2023 - 06:00
Dublin ranked near bottom of pile for zero-emissions shared transport in European surveyEuropean Clean Cities Campaign says Dublin one of just three cities ranked with no electric busesMon Jul 03 2023 - 00:01
Rare Irish orchid discovered in Trinity College after lawn mowing is haltedOrchid which requires ‘perfect set of circumstances’ grew when mowing stoppedMon Jul 03 2023 - 00:01
RTÉ payments controversy: Who did what and when? The timeline of events leads back to 2019, when a financial proposal to Ryan Tubridy’s agent Noel Kelly was tabled by a former RTÉ chief financial officerFri Jun 30 2023 - 16:39
Census 2022: Dubliners not heading west but Cork residents most loyal to home countyPopulation growth remains on east coast but Cork residents most loyal to their home countyFri Jun 30 2023 - 05:00
Census 2022: Covid-driven flight from Dublin did not materialise, according to figuresData show uneven population distribution across State which has been, and is increasingly, focused on east coastThu Jun 29 2023 - 19:02
St Teresa’s Gardens: Permission granted for 540 social and cost-rental apartments at siteLand Development Agency will build Dolphin’s Barn complex in Dublin that will include a 15-storey blockThu Jun 29 2023 - 13:52
