Opening Address at the National Council of Scouting Ireland “Scouting in Ireland needs to be relevant or redundant” according to the former Lord Mayor of Dublin, Councillor Dermot Lacey. Addressing the  4th National Council of the new merged Scouting Ireland, Councillor Lacey said that “as Scouting begins a second century it needs to be central […]

Environment Minister Dick Roche is guilty of “extraordinary ignorance of his brief and arrogance in his attitude” in attacking local authority rates increases, Labour Councillor Dermot Lacey has said. He was referring to comments made by the Minister in The Sunday Times yesterday.

Environment minister Dick Roche is guilty of “ignorance and arrogance” over his recent attack on local authority rates increases, Labour Councillor Dermot Lacey has said. The Donnybrook Councillor said that it looked like Minister Roche had overdone it on the Christmas festivities.

Labour Party Councillor for the Pembroke Ward in Dublin South East, Dermot Lacey, has described the decision by An Bord Pleanala to refuse permission for a major development on the lands of the former Jefferson Smurfitt HQ and UCD lands as “a major victory for local residents.”

“In what can only be described as a vote of no confidence in the Local Government system, Minister Ivor Callelly yesterday held the first of a series of secret meetings called the ‘Clare Street Initiative’ to discuss an integrated traffic management system in Dublin,” former Dublin City Lord Mayor and representative for Dublin South East, […]

“Michael McDowell should clarify his remarks that the proposed Poolbeg Incinerator will not now be built as planned “, according to former Lord Mayor of Dublin and local Labour Councillor Dermot Lacey

A Plaque will be unveiled by Mr Sean Kelly, President of the GAA to mark the location of the first All Ireland Football Final, which took place on the 23rd April 1887,on Wednesday the 12th April at 12.00noon. The Plaque will be located at the entrance to the Beech Hill Estate, junction with Beaver Row, […]

“The decision of An Bord Pleanala to uphold the appeal submitted by myself and others against the decision of Dublin City Council to grant planning permission for eighteen apartments at Scully’s Field Milltown is both correct and very much welcomed”, according to former Lord Mayor of Dublin, Councillor Dermot Lacey.

“Community policing is a very important and effective tool in fighting the misery and disruption wreaked across communities by the destructiveness of antisocial behaviour. Antisocial behaviour is anti community and action is required on a number of fronts,” Councillor Dermot Lacey has said.

Speaking after a meeting between City Council Management and local Councillors, former Lord Mayor of Dublin, Councillor Dermot Lacey, welcomed the announcement that CDM – a Boston based consultantcy firm – have been commissioned to prepare a report on how the major odour problems at the Waste Treatment Plan at Poolbeg can be resolved.