A ‘300-tonne crane’ needed to remove Palestinian flag from Dublin Spire
No group has claimed responsibility for the small flag high up on the O’Connell Street landmark
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What Census 1926 reveals about lives of children 100 years ago
Childhood historian unpacks ‘emotional impact’ for families of those in mother and baby homes on eve of April 18th, 1926
Dublin city regeneration body takes shape but questions over funding remain
High-profile appointment of Robert Watt needs to be matched by substantial funding
‘It doesn’t belong there’: Public reacts to Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre planned new look
Permission has been given for a contentious €100m part-demolition and revamp
Dublin City Council ‘shouldn’t have purchased’ structurally unsound houses in Phibsboro and Drumcondra, engineer says
Almost 100 private houses purchased by authority since 2018 in effort to turn vacant properties into social housing
Absence of competitive process for public appointments
What was needed then as now is capacity to implement vision
Revamp of Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre gets go-ahead
Permission granted after revised plans were lodged for its main entrance
One in 10 of Ireland’s homeless is in emergency accommodation on one street, Dáil told
Some 7,000 of State’s 16,000 homeless in Dublin’s north inner city
Minister urges housing bodies to engage on finance difficulties for cost-rental schemes
Most schemes undertaken by approved groups or Land Development Agency due to high debt burden
Councillors to meet housing body over its decision to scrap cost-rental scheme in Cabra
Some 40 houses in Cabra site were to be used for workers who earn too much for social homes but can’t afford rents
New Dublin regeneration role for Robert Watt is secondment with no competitive process
Senior Department of Housing civil servant to lead authority in charge of revitalising key areas in city
Fire safety issue forces Peter McVerry homeless service to move tenants from Dublin property
St Stephen’s Green hostel being emptied in stages as a precaution
Robert Watt set to be paid €280,000 a year to lead Dublin city regeneration body
Former Department of Health head expected to be approved by Cabinet on Tuesday
Dublin council to borrow €36.5m to fund additional affordable homes at O’Devaney Gardens
Move would prevent sale of any private market housing in Dublin 7 development of more than 1,000 apartments
Dublin apartment builds up 13% but 40,000 units granted planning not ‘activated’, data shows
‘This uplift signals that permissions granted in recent years are increasingly moving into the build phase,’ Government says
Obituary: Seán Ó Laoire: Award-winning architect who spearheaded major urban regeneration projects
Dubliner delighted in drawing up master-plans for regeneration of run-down areas of city, starting with the Custom House Docks
Dublin cost-rental scheme dropped over rising costs
Housing body Clúid says it will have to switch to 100 per cent social housing at Bannow Road development in Cabra
Planning permission granted for a third time for 562 new homes in Dublin 6
Milltown housing development to include 556 apartments and six three-bedroom courtyard houses
Donnybrook pub appeals rejection of awning over beer garden
Council turns down application for retention on noise grounds after hearing the awning greatly increases pub’s size
Residents of Dublin’s oldest Traveller housing site ‘devastated’ by redevelopment setback
Refurbishment and construction of Ballyfermot’s Labre Park promised since 1999
An Coimisiún Pleanála grants permission for religious accommodation block in Ballsbridge
Decision overturns Dublin City Council refusal of three-storey residential block for elderly members of orders
Dublin City Council completes €581m purchase of former DIT site
Deal to buy Kevin Street site would see council vacate Wood Quay civic offices
Drumcondra saga showcases dereliction of housing and of civic duty
It appears the plan for derelict accommodation is to dismiss the social housing option
‘The toilet overflows in my house’: Dublin tenant says neighbour’s sewage flows in to her home
‘Every time someone flushes in the flats above me, the toilet overflows in my house,’ says SNA
There’s a Bermuda Triangle of dereliction in Dublin. The solution lies in Leinster House
We are well past the point at which ‘pilot’ implementation projects and ‘independent’ special-purpose vehicles are put on some vague delivery schedule
More houses bought by council for social housing in Dublin face demolition
Site of Drumcondra houses, acquired by Dublin City Council more than seven years ago, may be sold back to private market
Dublin Literary Award 2026 shortlist: ‘Literature at its most international, most ambitious, and most humane’
Award-winning Scottish author Ali Smith, Vietnamese American writer Ocean Vuong and a Croatian debutant feature on a list with a strong French accent
Meet the man on a mission to clean up one of Dublin’s dirtiest rivers
John Stack, senior executive engineer with Dublin City Council, knows this waterway like the back of his hand
The Irish Times view on dereliction in Dublin: taking a new approach
Dublin City Council’s strategy draws on examples from other European citie
Couple cannot pursue challenge over refusal to include car-parking charges in Hap payment
Council believed Housing Assistance Payment form signed by landlord and couple had misrepresented rent amount – judge
Temple Bar publican gets green light for hotel facing on to Dame Street
Dublin City Council backs 43-bedroom plan by Tom Cleary’s Chambers Properties after previous proposal was thrown out on appeal
‘Nobody wants to live like this’: Pearse House residents say they live with rats, mould
Dublin City Council received project and funding approval to proceed with the first phase of the regeneration
Civic Offices are in the right place. Leave them there
They can be refurbished, upgraded, extended and enhanced – it seems shameful and wasteful to throw it all away
‘Intensive upgrade’ for Dublin’s Pearse House flats approved after rethink by council
Previous application would have combined small flats into larger ones, reducing overall numbers
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