Darragh Moriarty
@darragh_mor
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City Councillor, @Labour DCC Leader & General Election Candidate Dublin South Centra| Day job @ health charity| Pats fan| Hold everything said here against me🙃
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Weird couple of days spent wandering around Walkinstown, Drimnagh, Inchicore and Dolphin's Barn with a camera in my face! 🎥 🎬
This is why I'm running to represent Dublin South Central in the General Election (whenever it's called).
Please consider giving me your No.1 vote.
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"In demand standing ticket" is just a standard standing ticket except double the price.
No difference between Ticketmaster and touts.
#OasisDublin
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The Globe and The Library Bar on George's Street to make way for..... another hotel.
Planning application available here:
Observations closing date is 7 August.
Dublin is hemorrhaging nightlife spaces and is fast becoming shit craic.
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Dublin City Council voted FOR public housing on public land.
There, fixed your headlines.
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At last night's City Council meeting, I called on DCC Executive to push ahead with the Traffic Plan.
"Economic analysis" carried out on behalf of carpark owners shouldn't deter us from unclogging the quays and giving priority to public transport, walkers, cyclists and taxis.
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A company called 'FOR MUCH NEEDED HOUSING LIMITED' has applied for planning for a 38-bed "boutique hotel" in Cabra.
Yes, you read that correctly.
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Thanks to former tenants who came forward to share their story with me.
Evicted from their homes last August as landlord said he intended to sell.
He didn't sell.
Shoved bunk-beds into rooms and let them out on AirBnB.
DCC Planning Enforcement has issued a cessation order.
Landlord advertising apartments on Airbnb after he evicted tenants and said he was selling up
@darragh_mor
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Man with a can is not the same as man with a knife.
No idea what type of 'law and order' message this is supposed to send from Sinn Féin.
On Thurs 3 small children & a teacher randomly & viciously stabbed here at Gaelscoil Cholaiste Mhuire. This is pick up time at same school yesterday. For all the hot air and diversions NO lessons have been learned by Govt. NO care or respect. No political accountability.
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Chuffed to bits and incredibly proud to be elected to represent my community of Dublin 8.
A huge thank you to every single person who has trusted me with their vote.
Massive thanks to Amy, friends, family,
@labourdubsc
members and lastly,
@RebeccaMoy
and
@hannahmdeasy
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I'm objecting to the closure of the Globe & Rí Rá.
Dublin is overconcentrated with hotels & tourist accommodation already
Dublin’s cultural fabric and nightlife is dying
Unsustainable uses of land feed our housing/homelessness crisis
My submission here:
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So.. I'm going to be co-opted on to Dublin City Council following
@RebeccaMoy
's election to Seanad Éireann. A bit of a mad time for this to be happening but looking forward to representing the South West Inner City. At least there'll be no awkward handshaking for the foreseeable!
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At tonight's Local Property Tax Meeting,
@labour
,
@greenparty_ie
and
@SocDems
will propose NOT giving a tax cut to wealthy property owners.
Instead, we would put over €12m back into Area Committee funds for local projects.
SF, FF, FG and Inds. will vote for the tax cut.
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Absolutely buzzing for Helen.
Came to Ireland in 2005 in seek of asylum and today is elected a Councillor for
@labour
in Galway - the first ever black woman elected to Galway City Council.
A rejection of the hatred and division we're seeing elsewhere.
Helen Ogbu elected to Galway City Council - the first black woman ever elected there
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Hugely disappointed that DCC has given green light to plop hotel accommodation on top of the Living Room/Murrays/Fibbers beer garden.
The hotel already has 214 rooms and an additional 97 rooms will now replace what is one of the north city-centre's very few beer garden spaces.
Today, Tues 8 March, is the final day to have your say on plans seeking to expand the Holiday Inn Express @ top of O'Connell Street by lobbing 97 hotel rooms on the beer garden space of Living Room/Murrays/Fibbers.
Make an observation 👉
My submission 👇
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Was struck by some of the brilliant motions & contributions at
#LP21
over the weekend.
A fantastic motion by
@AnneCronin5
simply trying to get
@labour
Cllrs across local authorities on the same page re: cycle lanes, parking on footpaths etc. was diluted. Here was my response 👇
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Local Property Tax is the closest thing this country has to a Wealth Tax.
This pandemic has shown us we need to invest more in our city, not less.
Labour and Greens tonight called for a moderate increase to the LPT but all other parties gave a tax cut to well-off homeowners.
34-21, Dublin City Council votes to cut property tax again.
To disprortionately benefit wealthy homeowners, the tax will mean €12m less for the council's funds.
We're already facing a €39m deficit thanks to COVID - we didn't need this on top of it.
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Our city is crying out for good quality homes.
The Liberties doesn't need another aparthotel.
This planning application should be refused by
@DubCityCouncil
.
We need
#HomesNotHotels
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Great proposal here from
@stoned_takeaway
, with the support of 19/19 premises, for widening of footpaths on Parliament St to assist bars, cafes and restaurants with outside dining.
Will be pushing
@DubCityCouncil
Management to take this on board.
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New segregated cycling outside
@CoombeHospital
will hopefully put an end to illegal footpath parking along this stretch.
Fair play
@dccscarea
for installation.
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Public transport moving faster through our city and footfall up since introduction of City Transport Plan.
No apocalypse.
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Fine Gael maybe had second thoughts on their now deleted "think of the children" Tweet when it coincided with the release of homeless figures showing 3,342 children are homeless under their watch.
Good call 👍
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This is a distraction.
Instead of focusing on yet another racist arson attack, the focus is now shifting to DRHE-bashing.
Racist arsonists are the problem, not the DRHE.
Local politicians not informed about plan to use building burned down as homeless hub
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"To overstretched working-class communities, we are making it very clear, we will not be putting new centres into *your* community".
Am I listening to Gavin Pepper or our supposed next Finance Minister?
Shameful and predictable right-wing pandering from Sinn Féin here.
Here's some answers to the questions you've been sending in on the clear differences in Sinn Féin's International Protection plan vs the current broken system.
We are making it very clear to over-stretched, working class areas that we will not be putting new centres into your
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Great turnout for
@DublinCommuters
protest at City Hall this evening demanding that the DCC Executive stand strong and don't buckle to the carpark lobby.
The City Traffic Plan cannot be indefinitely held to ransom over legal threats and must be implemented from August.
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This is all the more devastating because community groups and local residents have had to fight for every bit of greenery and playground space in the Liberties area.
Weaver and Bridgefoot St hard-fought community wins.
How appalling to see such wonton destruction of a local amenity. Such disdain for the wider community. Such disdain for the huge time and effort that went into creating this beautiful park.
#WeaverPark
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Hotel gets REFUSED planning permission.
Significant decision by DCC to refuse this on Capel St with the Planner's Report citing 2150 hotel rooms proposed within a 350m radius!
Here's our precedent to make the over-concentration argument.
Report here:
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The southside quays are red and white ✊
Fair play
@DubCityCouncil
for playing its part in the build up to Sunday's
#FaiCupFinal
.
🔴⚪ vs 🔴⚫
#D8
vs
#D7
@stpatsfc
vs
@bfcdublin
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I'm just big boned 🏃♂️
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Sure what else would you be doing to celebrate your 30th..
A run for the Dáil is the best birthday present.
Incredibly grateful to
@RebeccaMoy
and
@LabourDubSC
members for their support.
We'll be ready whenever the General is called.
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Corner site at Dolphins Barn/SCR has been a derelict eye-sore for years.
DCC has taken it back into public ownership and it's to be developed for public housing. I'm interested to hear local views on how we should use the ground floor space.
Survey here:
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Findings of a new
@ESRIDublin
report make for grim reading for young people. Turns out flat whites and avocados aren't the reason we can't afford houses, but "widespread stagnation in earnings growth, higher house costs and rapidly rising rents"
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Finally!
Dublin City Council for the first time today have confirmed in writing they are working on plans that include the delivery of a full-size playing pitch at the Marrowbone Lane Depot site.
Still a long way to go, but a welcome step in right direction.
@SportingLibo
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Coming soon to Bulfin Road - Inchicore's own Anne O'Brien, Ireland's first female professional footballer, via
@DublinCanvas
.
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The agreement we've reached will increase investment in communities across Dublin.
Ring-fenced funding for cleaner streets, parks and housing maintenance.
An end to 10 years of tax cuts for wealthy property owners.
Full details 👇
Labour wins increased funding for vital local services in new Dublin City Council agreement
"The agreement promotes inclusion, equality & integration for everybody who calls Dublin home."
@Darragh_Mor
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A privilege this evening to be formally co-opted to represent the people of the South West Inner City.
Covid-19 has disproportionately hit our most vulnerable and I look forward to working with colleagues playing my part in tackling the inequalities the crisis has highlighted.
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A Fine Gael Minister representing one of the most affluent constituencies in the State says we should let his voters hoard their wealth.
An economics professor and member of the Commission on Welfare & Taxation says this is a load of bollocks.
I know who I agree with.
Should inheritance tax be cut? No - Cutting the tax paid by the children of wealthy families would be a strange priority. Yes - This is a tax on wealth that has already been taxed. Barra Roantree and Neale Richmond debate via
@irishtimesoped
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5% tourist tax coming to Edinburgh set to raise £50m per year for the Council to invest back into their city.
In Dublin, we're looking just to introduce a 1% levy to raise around €12m a year.
A no brainer.
Edinburgh on track to become first Scottish city to introduce tourist tax
Read more🔗
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Virtually attending tonight's DCC Budget Info meeting.
Very interesting to hear Councillor after Councillor after Councillor bemoan the possible loss discretionary funding for Local Area Offices while they voted to give a tax cut to wealthy property owners in September.
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“The fact that we are willing to compromise our city’s architectural heritage to cater for a nine-room hotel shows where the priorities of our planning system lie” - spoke to
@paddyod_97
of the
@thetimesIE
re: Temple Bar's latest hotel development
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'On Emmet Road in Inchicore, St Patrick’s Athletic FC plans to expand its stadium' via
@DublinInquirer
.
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Delighted to formally be selected to contest the local elections in the South West Inner City next June.
Since coming on the Council in 2020, representing the community I've lived in all my life has been an enormous privilege.
Hope to be able to continue that work ✊️
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And we're done.
Thanks to everyone who opened their doors and chatted, and to everyone who helped me knock on doors or drop leaflets over the last few months.
We covered every bit of
#SouthWestInnerCity
, chasing every No.1 vote we can.
Now it's over to the people of Dublin 8.
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The League of Ireland needs investment from national and local government.
DCC is stepping up and putting its money where its mouth is.
Dalymount and Tolka are moving in the right direction - Richmond Park has to be next.
My contribution at yesterday evening's Full Council 👇
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Good call to delete
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'Local councils are paying private developers up to €400,000 for social housing units when the councils themselves can build them directly at *half the price*, internal Department of Housing figures suggest'
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Same shit, different year on Local Property Tax at this evening's Full Council meeting.
Again, parties/independents of the 'Left' giving a tax cut to property owners, justifying it because it's a 'tax on the family home'- an argument straight out of the Tory playbook 👇
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Some day for it! 🌞
Chuffed to attend the official opening of Bridgefoot Street Park in the Liberties this afternoon.
This greenspace is long overdue and was possible through local community, Councillors and
@DCCParksBiodiv
working together.
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Great to see this counter demonstrator down at East Wall this evening.
Protesters in East Wall, Dublin have blocked the road outside the old ESB building.
The former office building is being used to provide emergency accommodation for 380 men, women and children
@NewstalkFM
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😍
New plans from the Iveagh Trust to be presented at tomorrow's Dublin South Central Area Committee for redevelopment of derelict corner site at Dolphins Barn/SCR.
Very welcome delivery of up to 25 new public homes and community/social enterprise space at ground-floor!
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On 22 August, I submitted the below re: these buildings on James's Street, D8.
At tonight's Full Council, DCC confirmed they initiated a CPO on 23 August.
This is absolutely welcome, but why the delay when buildings on Derelict Sites Register since June 2019?
#DerelictIreland
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Yet more
#CoLiving
plans, this time on Cork St.
No formal planning app yet, but the architect has drawings up here:
We need one and two-bed apartments, not developers milking every cent with undignified shoeboxes.
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Planning finally lodged by
@DubCityCouncil
to
@anbordpleanala
for delivery of 578 public homes, 70% cost-rental/30% social, in Inchicore.
Not everybody has got what they want, but the lodging of planning is an important & positive milestone.
My thoughts:
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.
@MarkWall1
's Bill to ban the advertising of gambling can't work its way through the Oireachtas quick enough.
It's not just Rovers, Bohs with Mr Green, Pats before that with Paddy Power - the addiction and harm caused is irrefutable and we need to ban ads and these sponsorships.
🚨 𝐁𝐈𝐆 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐅𝐄𝐑 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓! 🚨
𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐝, 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐭 ⤵️ 🐴
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Can someone tell my face to be "delighted"
Cheers
Finally!
Dublin City Council for the first time today have confirmed in writing they are working on plans that include the delivery of a full-size playing pitch at the Marrowbone Lane Depot site.
Still a long way to go, but a welcome step in right direction.
@SportingLibo
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Planning submitted for a new 'aparthotel' on Francis St/Mark's Alley, Dublin 8 containing 37 'suites'.
This should be rejected by DCC Planning as this area has seen an overconcentration of hotel developments in recent years.
Build gaffs instead!
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Even though he couldn't answer a straight question below, I'm absolutely delighted for
@AodhanORiordain
.
A brilliant, positive and progressive campaign that stood against hate.
The final in our candidate quick fire questions
@darragh_mor
@AodhanORiordain
#fortheloveofdublin
#LE24
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To clarify, some of Library Bar is to make way for a hotel. One of the best places in the city centre for a quiet pint.
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Been a Councillor representing the Dublin 8 area for a year now. A very difficult and challenging year for many and I've learned loads, especially from the sound bunch of SWIC Cllrs.
Look forward to meeting actual humans instead of Zooming, emailing and talking on the phone!
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At tonight's
@DubCityCouncil
meeting we voted to pave the way for a much-needed sporting facility for
#Dublin8
as part of the redevelopment of St Teresa's Gardens-a facility the area has been starved of.
Fair play to Sporting Liberties who have campaigned years for this.
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Joined
@morningireland
earlier to discuss the new traffic and transport proposals for Dublin city centre.
6/10 cars are using our city as a cut-through to go somewhere else. We need to give more priority to those who want to spend time in our city.
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Next Wednesday, 5th of October @ Dolphins Barn Church, from 1pm-7.30pm,
@theiveaghtrust
and
@housingdcc
will be presenting plans for this corner site at Dolphins Barn/South Circular Road.
This derelict site will soon be no more and in its place we'll have 20-25 public homes.
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What goes up must come down!
Less than 4 hours until polling stations close - if you haven't voted yet in South West Inner City, please consider giving me your No.1!
#LE24
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Dublin needs
#HomesNotHotels
.
On DCC, I've worked to clamp down on the number of hotels flying through our planning system so that we can build the homes we need instead.
I'm asking for your No.1 vote on 7th June so I can continue to be a positive voice for change for our city.
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🙌 Planning granted for 578 public homes at the former St. Michael's Estate site at Emmet Road in Inchicore 🙌
A mixture of studios, ones, twos and three-beds will see social and cost-rental homes delivered, as well as a new library and retail.
Build build build.
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Lots of No.1s for
@ivanabacik
this evening in Harold's Cross.
People engaging on the doors and taken by her track record of delivering change.
Just over a week to go ✊
#VoteIvana
#dbs21
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Yup yup ✊️
Finally!
Dublin City Council for the first time today have confirmed in writing they are working on plans that include the delivery of a full-size playing pitch at the Marrowbone Lane Depot site.
Still a long way to go, but a welcome step in right direction.
@SportingLibo
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15 boxes in the back of the head as he's been held by 2 other security lads.
When you dehumanise people seeking our help and leave them in disease-ridden tents on our street, these are the attitudes that form and the behaviour you get.
Sickening.
Warning: Violence.
A security guard has been suspended after a video showed an asylum seeker at Citywest being punched 15 times. The Department of Integration has said all guards are garda vetted, and there is "zero tolerance" of violence.
@eimer_mcauley
@NickyRyan_
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Just one of the canvas teams out this evening for one final
#DBS21
push for
@ivanabacik
.
#VoteIvana
no.1 or next highest pref tomorrow to send someone to the Dáil who will fight for renters, for equality, for climate action, for better childcare provision and for social justice.
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Next Friday, 7th June I'm asking for your no.1 vote so that I can continue to stand up for vulnerable renters and work with them to take on slumlords like
#MarcGodart
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After years of campaigning, DCC have finally committed to delivering a full-size playing pitch at Marrowbone Lane.
Dublin 8 needs this pitch as soon as possible.
This shouldn't be caught up in DCC's Depot plan. Here's my solution for how we can speed up delivery 👇
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Re: fight to build cycle lanes.. on our Active Travel Update at this evening's Full Council, just had a Cllr ask for Environmental Impact Assessments to be done for our roll out of cycle lanes 🙃
It's so difficult to get perspective in the cacophony of modern life/media/whatever, but you really can't exaggerate how insane it is that this shit is going on & we still have to fight like hell to install a bike lane or build a solar farm.
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Dereliction and vacancy is a scourge across every town, village and city in this country, including my own area of Dolphins Barn where I grew up.
What should be affordable homes for people desperately searching for a place to live in this city is a crumbling derelict mess.
Housing in Ireland is unaffordable and unavailable🏘️
But walk around any town or village and there are plenty of empty and vacant houses that could be people’s homes.
Help us turn these empty spaces into people's places.
Report vacancy in your area⤵️
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🙌
DCC has confirmed weekend pedestrianisation of Parliament St and Capel St is extended for another 6 weeks to Sunday, 29th August.
Pedestrianisation will continue to operate from 6.30pm-11.30pm.. would've preferred this to be right through from Friday evening to Sunday night!
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Good mates keep you humble
Dereliction and vacancy is a scourge across every town, village and city in this country, including my own area of Dolphins Barn where I grew up.
What should be affordable homes for people desperately searching for a place to live in this city is a crumbling derelict mess.
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Brilliant to see this.
TCD previously offered gym discounts to local multinationals but done far too little for disadvantaged communities living on its doorstep.
Following local community activism, and engagement by
@ivanabacik
a
#CommunityMembership
scheme has been launched.
Delighted to have joined
@tcdsports
at
@tcddublin
this week to launch the new
#CommunityMembership
scheme for the
#SouthInnerCity
#equality
Find out more 👉
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Kids and young people in
#Dublin8
deserve better than using 5-aside kick about spaces in flat complexes to train for their actual team's matches.
That's the reality facing many in Dublin 8, and while I was delighted to get this pitch upgraded, we need full-size pitches!
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Distracting myself from the RDS at
@CityPartnership
/
@stpatsfc
Multicultural Day at Richmond Park.
Always a brilliant event bringing the community together.
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At last night's
@DubCityCouncil
Meeting, I raised the fact that Dublin 8 doesn't have a single full-sized sports pitch.
As part of the Council's new Sports Plan, Management must work with local councillors and groups such as
@SportingLibo
to deliver the facilities we deserve.
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The scapegoating of people in emergency accommodation for supposedly refusing offers is obviously disgusting but what's worse is the description of homelessness as uncontrollable - that it's inevitable somehow.
12,400+ people including 3,700 children homeless is not inevitable.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has defended his Government's record on homelessness by saying some people in emergency accommodation "refuse multiple offers to go on social housing" |
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Myself and a number of Cllrs have written to
@hazechu
seeking an urgent meeting on
@DubCityCouncil
's plans for an 'outdoor summer'.
While welcome, the June Bank Holiday is here and we shouldn't be celebrating portaloos and extra bins as some sort of win.
Further answers needed.
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Just a 1% Tourist Tax could generate €12m per year to put back into Dublin to be ring-fenced to make it a better plan for the people who live here and people who want to visit.
It's a no brainer.
Listen back to full discussion via
@drivetimerte
here:
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After 5+ years, will be moving on from the IIEA in January.
A great place to work with great people and always interesting!
Take my job 👇
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At Conference the weekend, I spoke for
@LabourDubSC
on our motion to endorse the Commission on Welfare & Taxation recommendations on Inheritance Tax.
Those recommendations were bashed and discredited by Fine Gael and Fianna Fail who want to perpetuate an unequal Ireland.
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✊
Michael D. on gambling ads.
@labour
Senator
@MarkWall1
is bringing legislation through the Oireachtas to ban gambling advertising.
#BeatTheAds
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