The new Rathmines Leisure Centre, including gym and swimming pool, will be fully open to the public from Monday 27th September onwards. This is great news, and an excellent development for the village and the surrounding areas. For more information on the facilities and prices, please see this leaflet (pdf).

The proposed amendments to the Draft Dublin City Development Plan 2011 – 2017 will be on public  display from 18th August 2010 to 15 September 2010 at the following locations in the South East Area during normal office opening hours: Civic Offices, Wood Quay, Dublin 8 Ringsend/Pembroke Area Office, Portview House, Thorncastle Street, Ringsend, Dublin [...]

Today’s (Monday’s) Irish Times carries an opinion piece I wrote on the need for local government reform in Dublin. You can read it below and on the Irish Times website. Ending the Department of the Environment’s stranglehold over local government is the key to effective reform, writes DERMOT LACEY FOR IRELAND’S sake, Dublin needs to [...]

The closing date for submissions from members of the public on the Draft Dublin City Development Plan 2011-2017 is tomorrow, Friday 12th March. The remaining stages in the process are as follows: The Manager’s Report on submissions received is circulated to City Council by 24th May 2010 Consideration of the Report by the Members to [...]

Regular readers might be interested in the motions I put down at today’s South East Area Committee of Dublin City Council.  The motions, and the City Manager’s responses, are below: Item 1 Motion from Councillor Dermot Lacey This Committee requests the Manager to arrange a clean up and tidy up of the old graveyard adjacent [...]

I was on The Late Debate on RTÉ Radio 1 last Wednesday discussing the proposed post of Mayor of Dublin.  You can listen to the show from the RTÉ website here (mp3).

Report on 2009 Activities to the Labour Party’s Dublin South East AGM – January 2010 2009 has been one of the most dynamic years in a long time. Labour in Dublin built on our previous successes with no small contribution from Dublin South East. In Pembroke –Rathmines winning three seats was quite simply unprecedented and [...]

The arrangements for Christmas bin services have just been announced. Black & Brown Bins There will be no collection on Christmas Day.  Bins due to be collected on Christmas Day will instead be collected on Saturday 26th December. There will also be no collection on New Year’s Day.  Bins due to be collected on New [...]

It’s been far too long since I posted here and when I look back through my diary I see what an amazingly active period it has been. At Labour Party level we have see the successful conclusion of the Lisbon Referendum campaign, the first meeting of the new Central Council and the continued leadership of [...]

Following the Local Elections I have been appointed to the following boards and committees: Local: Rathmines – Pembroke Partnership. Lansdowne Road Stadium – Project Monitoring Committee. Chairperson –South East Area Policing Committee. I have also been recently invited to serve on the Board of the Royal Hospital Donnybrook Voluntary Housing Association. City Council: City Council [...]