Report to Dublin South East Constituency Council – July 2011. City Council: Financial pressures and the increasing reduction of Council services continue to dominate the agenda. This will see reductions in street cleansing, slower maintenance response and the possibility of withdrawing altogether from Waste Collection. This central issue of the Financing of Local Government must [...]

City Council: The principal concern for the Council remains that of Finance, though listening, watching and participating in Council meetings it would be hard to believe this to be the case. While the case for Local Government reform has been highlighted from time to time –dealing with the thornier issue of Finance is central to [...]

Below is the report I delivered to the Labour Party’s Dublin South East Constituency Council meeting this evening (16th May). Report to Dublin South East Constituency Council – May 16th. City Council: The main issue of concern to the Council is the same as the Country – Finance. However in the case of Local Government [...]

Following a request received from the Road Maintenance Division, the Council is considering an application for a temporary road closure of Rathgar Avenue, Dublin 6 – between the junctions of Rathgar Road & Winton Avenue – on Saturday 11th June 2011 and Sunday 12th June 2011, between 08:00 and 16:00 hours. The temporary closure is [...]

Easter Arrangements for Waste & Recycling services Household Waste Collections – Black and Brown Bins: Household bin collections will take place as normal on Good Friday 22nd April & Easter Monday 25th April For further information on Waste Collection Services, see Aertel Page 629 or log onto www.dublincity.ie/wastecalendar to view the waste collection schedule for [...]

An interesting new community activity being launched in Sandymount by Transition Sandymount, a community group promoting sustainability, food production and energy saving awareness. They are hosting a public screening of the documentaryies “Vanishing of the Bees” on 22nd March and “A Crude Awakening” on 29th March in Scoil Mhuire in Sandymount (Dublin 4).  Click the [...]

2010 has been a busy year on the City Council. Work centered on the new City Development Plan where I pushed for positive constructive planning policy with real public engagement. Work also took place on the Regional Authority to adopt new Regional Planning Guidelines. Given the collapse of the Public Finances there was the difficult [...]

Two Dublin Scout leaders have come together to start the biggest charity fundraiser campaign of their lives. Yesterday, Richard McGrath and Conor Mulvagh began a Facebook campaign appealing to the good will of AIB workers to donate their €40MILLION worth of Executive Christmas Bonuses to charity, and spread a little cheer, in the spirit of [...]

Dublin City Council has released details of the 2010 Christmas period waste collection arrangements. As Christmas Day falls on a Saturday this year, normal black and brown bin collections won’t be affected.  Christmas tree recycling will be available at a variety of locations from January 2nd to 20th.  Full details can be found here (pdf).

If you’re interested in growing your own food, you might like to know that there is a GIY (Grow It Yourself) branch in Rathgar/Terenure. The group meets on the first Monday of each month at 8pm in Rathgar Junior School on Grosvenor Road in Rathmines. Entry is free. The next meeting is on December 6th, [...]