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However, the project was beset by delays and underwent several redesigns, including one following protests in 2017 over plans to cut down 50 trees in Fairview Park. The council subsequently amended its plans to save 42 of the trees.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AS4U6KXNAFG3PMOTYWGYKMU3MY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732807301716},"content":"In February 2019, the council published revised costs of €20 million following design changes and the decision to include extensive water mains replacement and new sewerage systems in the project, as well as a link through Fairview Park as part of the Tolka Valley greenway.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SDOETIAS2FA7DAROMMWWOVIMQE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732807301717},"content":"The project again stalled due to a failure, the council said, to reach funding agreements with Irish Water and National Transport Authority concerns about proposed bus diversions during construction.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LYIXNHPHKVGU3CSMQCEQDJ4264","additional_properties":{"_id":1732807301718},"content":"By the time construction started in March 2022 the costs had increased from €20 million to €62 million due to “enhanced 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Mr Murphy defended co-living as one solution to the housing crisis and an “exciting” choice to young workers “like a very trendy, kind of boutique hotel-type place”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UNQHXPHOAFAQBOMQIENVH2MNXY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732647228402},"content":"His successor as minister for housing, Darragh O’Brien, in late 2020 banned new co-living applications following concerns developers were eschewing construction of traditional apartment schemes in favour of cheaper co-living developments.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LJMMTV7SKJEFJOCE3HTAHVPSWI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732647228403},"content":"Supporting the ban Mr Murphy said co-living was only ever intended to play a limited and “niche role” in the housing market.","type":"text"},{"_id":"22OAVOQ35ZGIFLG2PC54CMTRSM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732647228404},"content":"Bartra opened Niche Living in Dún Laoghaire, the State’s first co-living complex, in 2023 charging €1,880 a month per person. The cost has since risen to €1,990 per month, but studios are also being offered for stays of just two nights.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2IRD2CS6ARD7NOPJMFIQ4FDKRA","additional_properties":{"_id":"YVNN63LHGFHGTF4EPQPUPYSCPI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"6ODGFEYO7NAXLMBHDAVPEPN7AI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732647228405},"content":"Following the advertisement of the studios on holiday site <a href=\"http://booking.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Booking.com</a> the council issued a warning letter to Bartra for “alleged unauthorised development” due to “non-compliance” with planning permission as “residency occupancy lengths” were “not being adhered to”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MT3ILAN7WJHUNJZWXAJZVBWWUE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732647228406},"content":"However, following a response from Bartra, the council early this month dropped its enforcement action.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FH6XU53EENDE3A4D5JSHZAT5PA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732647228407},"content":"The council said it had “considered legal advice obtained” and accepted the duration of letting was not defined in the ministerial guidelines governing shared accommodation developments. 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Today his shop bears little sign of what occurred a year ago, when it was looted during <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dublin-riots/\" target=\"_blank\">the rioting</a> of November 23rd, during an evening when <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin</a>’s city centre became, for a number of hours, a scene of social unrest, with arson and vandalism in streets in and around <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/o-connell-street/\" target=\"_blank\">O’Connell Street</a>. A bus went on fire on O’Connell Street. Assaults were made on <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/an-garda-siochana/\" target=\"_blank\">gardaí </a>and members of the public.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BXWZAZW7L5C2TMT7KXFBP3VYUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798664},"content":"“It was just shock. I didn’t know what to think,” says Nolan of that night. “There’s glass everywhere, a lot of the bikes are missing, and things are trashed – till, computer, phone, everything is gone, and some of the customer bikes as well.” He and business partner Pawel Naczke built a barrier and locked themselves into the Bike Stop, fearful of more looting.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4XAJL526XVF2DG5D2TN24FJOPI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798665},"content":"Twelve months on, Nolan and Naczke are among the many <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin </a>retailers once more preparing for <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/christmas/\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas</a>. On a visit to several businesses across the city centre, it’s clear that many retailers have moved on after the riots. They have learned that there’s a certain resilience to Dubliners, with shoppers quickly proving their support. But they can see clearly too that the city still has its challenges, whether it’s shoplifting, what some see as a high VAT rate, or high rents and rates.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QUMI4IUBPFAQLK46C5PZQXUT2E","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798666},"content":"Memories remain of last December, when the city had to summon up festive cheer during a difficult time. “That was a hard month. Business was down. We couldn’t get stock in on time,” Nolan tells The Irish Times Magazine. Yet 2024 turned out to be one of Bike Stop’s best years since it opened in 2021. “People were making an effort to come to us,” says Nolan. “They’d heard about the riot and stuff like that. And we’ve a lot of return customers.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MFDCMYSIQJBMNAWRXSNLNS34NM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798667},"content":"For Naczke, the effects of the riots lingered a long time. He also owns Vintage Dublin, a shop crammed with beautiful antique furniture on the floor below Bike Stop. He moved from Poland to Ireland when he was 19. Now 40, he says the riots made him feel stressed and unsafe for months afterwards.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QZEYXXEBUCO7UFUNJP5NSUWOZA","additional_properties":{"_id":"CA4DPU2NARB43FNLYNMHAIERRI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"ZRJSRCCIYNFVTCSQJWW25NUO5U","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798668},"content":"“It was the first time ever I was thinking: I am an <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/immigration/\" target=\"_blank\">immigrant</a>. I am not born here. I am not from here. And if they want to sacrifice me as an example of ‘another immigrant’, I could be the target. Even though I’m 100 per cent rooted here, I pay heavy taxes, I run shops and I bought a house.” But he adds: “I know what happened doesn’t represent Irish people.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"I6T7Z7LVRZAE5NHQP26KNUTKJI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798669},"content":"Still, he wondered if it was all worth it: working hard in Ireland only to feel unsafe. “Maybe I just go and work in a wine bar in the south of Spain, rather than trying hard,” he remembers thinking. The support of his wife and Nolan helped, as did the outpouring of concern from customers, and over time he began to feel safer in the city. “I definitely see Dublin being a little bit safer. I don’t see many TikTok or X clips about machetes on Talbot Street or tourists being beaten,” Naczke says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NU4U3IZMJ5CDTM6N62LYF6KOOE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798670},"content":"Nolan says Capel Street, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2022/05/20/capel-street-becomes-dublins-longest-traffic-free-street-1.4884011/\" target=\"_blank\">which was pedestrianised in 2022</a>, has “an exciting but sometimes nerve-racking energy about it”, with a vibrant nightlife thanks to its restaurants and pubs. While he’s a fan of its new benches, he says they are often used by people drinking, or using drugs. He sees drug dealing openly taking place on the street. While there was a stronger Garda presence in the city centre following the riots, Nolan and all the retailers The Irish Times Magazine speak to say they felt this returned to pre-riots level within a few months. So when asked about his hopes for 2025, Nolan appeals for more gardaí. “Garda on patrol more consistently, and forever, not just for a small period. I think it would make a big difference,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KVLRBAWUJZHCHPEJOXRSMWBYUA","additional_properties":{"_id":"25Q2TSJF7ZA67LU6UGQMJQOOQM"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"BQGEGFCYZBED5MDTUIOGPVQ35A","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798671},"content":"A few streets over from Bike Stop Dublin on Lower Liffey Street, beauty therapist Neelu White of Neelu’s Beauty Salon is on a break between clients. Originally from India, she came to Ireland in 1983 with her brother. “I only came here for three weeks,” she laughs. A conversation at the Indian-Irish Cultural Club led to two years of teaching sitar in UCC. (She has a Master’s in classical Indian music and another in English.) She used her free time to do a beauty course, which ended up having a big impact on the eyebrows of Dublin. “I brought threading to Ireland,” she says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FGTPUJBXFFE45L4CL6JX6IH4FI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798672},"content":"She’s still in Ireland 41 years on. While Dún Laoghaire has her heart, as it’s where she first opened her business, White has been based on Lower Liffey Street for two years. During the riots she had to take shelter in a nearby Chinese restaurant along with several other people. “The city centre is coming back to itself,” says White. “We had a rough year. With the riots and a lot of the drugs and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/homeless-crisis/\" target=\"_blank\">the homeless issue</a>, people were scared. My clients didn’t want to come into the city centre.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"CPON2NMEJFGY5LIQWHWE3YEVQM","additional_properties":{"_id":"4ONNQOHKZJAFDO4I7VE3LS6K7A"},"content":"Dublin riots: Gardaí remove photographs of some ‘persons of interest’ from website after identifying them","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"TZXUI3ERTR722OGR5NNM4NGFZY","additional_properties":{"_id":"ZHYTQFXZZBGRTH2XWEOTATDVTE"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"4RFLHNZ465FG7OF7FAIRJAP6FA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798673},"content":"But she gestures to the revamped street outside her premises, saying that since the summer, things have improved. “<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dublin-city-council/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin City Council</a> is amazing. Look at the plants on the street – they have made it so beautiful and so inviting. Now there’s such tourism here. People are enjoying coming into town. Before that, people were scared of being attacked.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FIM3YJMVQJGGLA6RVIVVEKLQH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798674},"content":"White says she hasn’t experienced racism in Ireland. “If Irish people were [racist], I wouldn’t have any business. I don’t think the Irish people are, but every country has a few bad people,” she says. She describes herself and other people who have moved to Ireland from abroad as guests who should respect the country. “I would say Irish people are very kind, and you have to return to them kindness. I have a son with special needs and I’ve had such support from my clients.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2TQBUT5IQVGTBIPS4GKAIDNYB4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798675},"content":"But the far-right undertones of the rioting did worry her. “Being coloured was a bit scary, because of what happened and how they behaved. But I had trust in the Irish.” Some of White’s clients are nervous about coming into the city, and are doing more shopping in the suburbs, she says. But many customers have stayed loyal, and walk-ins have begun returning in recent months.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2RC2QRRP2VAYRCJYKCSA4VFXLU","additional_properties":{"_id":"W77EAQI6VBDWFPAVDTOINLWPCA"},"content":"Dublin’s Capel Street named among coolest in the world","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"UPVLHRS22BDEVDRZYCSDP5O5TI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798676},"content":"Like the other business owners, White believes more visible policing would deter criminal activity: recently, someone damaged the outside of her business with a hammer. She’d like measures such as cheaper car-parking fees to make city visits less expensive for clients.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BKN7D65XT5GAPCZCBU5R7KNE54","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798677},"content":"Across the Liffey in Books Upstairs on D’Olier Street, punters are relaxing in the bookshop’s busy cafe. Manager Louisa Earls’s father, Maurice Earls, set up the business with his friend Enda O’Doherty in 1978, and it relocated to D’Olier Street almost a decade ago. She is anticipating a particularly busy time for the shop this Christmas. “November is like the calm before the storm,” she says over coffee.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SSUCVWBSY5ANRGQPLMPAQ4QMLY","additional_properties":{"_id":"TOTWARTPIBAIRDKQJW3XPKLYOY"},"content":"The Liffey is filthy, but can you imagine if it was clean enough to swim in?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"WT6ZLKUI6ZD2FPEPSYXPEP2GEQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798678},"content":"“The day after the riots, it was really, really quiet in the shop, really quiet on the street. That was definitely a scary day. But after a day or two it recovered,” she remembers. “We had a good December, and we were very relieved that people were seemingly after a short time able to feel good about coming to town again.” The shop wasn’t damaged, but a lot of Books Upstairs customers reached out over social media afterwards to show their concern. “It was slightly reminiscent of the conscientious consumerism that was on display during the pandemic,” says Earls.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CQIYGKYF45AKJKMM3XEGBXN72E","additional_properties":{"_id":"BRFYMTHQEVC5FGO2L7U7F4GBWY"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"SDDPZZDZYREO5JZPOQIID4WY3I","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798679},"content":"Cost of living is a concern for Books Upstairs. “You’re fearful that if the economy takes a turn, that things might fall apart. And I think we felt that way last year too,” says Earls. “We are just trying to make ourselves as viable and sustainable a business as we can.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"53EH56GAFBBAFM7FWTU3F4TQXI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798680},"content":"Earls believes shoppers are not easily scared off from their annual traditions, whether that be a national one like Christmas shopping in Dublin on December 8th or another family tradition. “Despite what happened, I feel like people were quite keen to say ‘we’re still doing our thing – we’re still doing December the way that we do December’,” says Earls, adding: “A bookshop is a lot of people’s happy place.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"CGHUEKBEXRDWXG5IMZGCGY43AE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798681},"content":"One of the shops badly looted on November 23rd, 2023, was the Asics store across the bridge from Books Upstairs on O’Connell Street Lower. Business partners Sunil Shah and Paul Gallagher, who co-own the Asics store and the Skechers franchise in Dublin, were at a black-tie affair that night in London when word began coming through about the riots. The pair immediately changed their flights home.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6BAVCPGFSZCZNNKHJLVSUY642Q","additional_properties":{"_id":"X24PBZPO45C3DIVLCJUUGBKKSI"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"6G6MRYZLWJBTNFXC5L6WSKOO6Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798682},"content":"“We got there midmorning [the next day] and the first thing we said is: these boys are not beating us. We’ll be open in a week,” says Gallagher. “The staff looked at me and said ‘how will we do that?’. I said I don’t know, but we will.” He was true to his word. “There is a certain resilience in Dublin people that is a hallmark of their character,” says Gallagher. “And I admire that. And I said: Dublin people will be back out shopping next week so we want to be here to have a shop for them next week.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2SPFKKZR4RF3LPDNZUSCQCXPMY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798683},"content":"That resilience is evident in the figures – Asics is up 20 per cent year-on-year. Like Nolan at Bike Stop, Gallagher puts this partly down to post-riots publicity, which increased knowledge of the specialist shoe store. He also feels that shoppers sent out a message to the gardaí and the Minister of Justice <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/helen-mcentee/\" target=\"_blank\">Helen McEntee</a> about the rioters: “The people of Dublin do not want to be dictated to by these gurriers.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2PZ6DH7YZNE3TK55QPLFWWT7OA","additional_properties":{"_id":"5Y5YPSMNSFFQVND5OMS2MDWNWY"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"DZ5AXEULNRFYPBFC3GP2BLVPLE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798684},"content":"But Gallagher describes shoplifting occurring regularly on O’Connell Street today. “There’s not enough gardaí on the street,” he says, maintaining that people feel there are “no consequences” if they shoplift or get aggressive with staff. He believes that the Government prioritising “over-the-shop” living would help decrease antisocial behaviour. “I was in Amsterdam last week at a Skechers conference and if you look around, every store has beautiful apartments over it,” he says. “Within a mile of O’Connell Street, 40-50 units could be used for over-the-shop accommodation.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"XVUSM2ZYMJGYDB2Q2QGEOZEZ5Y","additional_properties":{"_id":"JZEOY7XISRGV3FWP2GNMWLKMC4"},"content":"‘She is now in her chrysalis’: Girl injured in Parnell Square attack remains non-verbal but is ‘getting stronger’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"R5RVC2WOO5E6FPATBZ7PXF4KCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798685},"content":"There are several recent or imminent policy changes that retailers feel will affect them, including changes to paid sick leave, the minimum wage increasing to €13.50 from January 1st, and pension auto-enrolment beginning in September 2025. “You can’t put wage increases on businesses where margins are tight and expect everything to come out smelling of roses,” says Gallagher. He’s looking for more Government support for retailers, such as a reduction in the 23 per cent VAT rate. “They need to understand they have all this extra money from Apple, they need to fund businesses,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"53DIAOLDOFCI3BNAFZQ7GYCVIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798686},"content":"Footfall is down in Dublin city by more than 2 per cent to date this year, though it has improved since June, says <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/richard-guiney/\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Guiney</a>, chief executive officer of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dublin-town/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin Town</a>, which aims to promote the city as a retail and hospitality destination. “The feedback we have is the spend per customer isn’t as strong as people would like. So it’s been a bit of a mixed bag, and a lot of traders are feeling under pressure,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CVEG7C4M45AP5APSZFYFLBUNDA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798687},"content":"Dublin Town was worried about retail after the riots, but last December exceeded its expectations. “That was primarily due to a very good Garda presence on the street, a lot of on-street entertainment. People felt good. I think we do need a good Christmas again this year – we would like to see a greater Garda presence,” says Guiney. Dublin Town has made this request to An Garda Síochána and the Government and received “positive feedback”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QUTVRU2PCFB5TBME3E6AXGJKOM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798688},"content":"In a statement to The Irish Times Magazine, An Garda Síochána said that it “is committed to ensuring that people are kept safe” as we approach Christmas. Under what’s called Operation Citizen, it said gardaí across Dublin city continue to conduct high-visibility patrols on foot, bicycle and in Garda vehicles at locations where it’s been identified that antisocial behaviour and public order offences occur. “Enhanced uniformed Garda resources” will also be deployed over the holiday season, it said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H5Z73HAJL5EALL4GNUHE7E4CXA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798689},"content":"“The main core issue is that people don’t feel as safe in Dublin as we would like them to feel,” says Guiney, adding that it’s not just a matter of increasing Garda numbers. “We also need to look at how we assist the more vulnerable members of our society. And the uses of space in Dublin, bringing in new uses, bringing in residential uses, and a holistic approach to planning.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ENPCAVQHYJALXDKR5UN22MS7PY","additional_properties":{"_id":"CDTZAUEZYFDBVIBSN5AUDITXCA"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"ACTPODZWHBF5RIFVGUSPCZQB7A","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798690},"content":"In the aftermath of the Dublin riots, a Dublin City Taskforce was established by the Government to look at the measures required to rejuvenate Dublin city centre, north and south. Guiney believes<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2024/10/22/taskforce-recommends-10-big-moves-to-revitalise-dublin-city-centre/\" target=\"_blank\"> its 10 “big move” recommendations</a> – which includes the deployment of more gardaí – would transform Dublin if implemented.","type":"text"},{"_id":"44J6PU6KSZHRHIZWCE3NN2DLIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798691},"content":"The rioting on November 23rd began on the north side of the city centre. “Being honest, I think the north side for many years hasn’t received the love that it deserves. I think if we can get the north side of the city right it will make a very big difference to the whole of the city,” says Guiney, adding: “I think we can better manage some of the social challenges and our support for vulnerable people.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QUXK4V6EUFDDDNWF26RI5ZANLU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798692},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/temple-bar/\" target=\"_blank\">Temple Bar</a> might be particularly loved by tourists in search of a pint, but it’s also home to many independent retailers. Terence Murphy-Jones runs Big Smoke Vintage and Dublin Vintage Factory with his husband David. On the night of the riots, Big Smoke Vintage in Merchant’s Arch had its windows smashed by rioters. Amid fears of rioting occurring again, Temple Bar’s vintage stores set up a WhatsApp group. “If there are ever problems or if another store runs into something, all of the other stores will be notified,” says Murphy-Jones, who’s been in the vintage business in Dublin for 11 years.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4YSRQISHYBDS5PJWRMTCYCZPJI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798693},"content":"He says things have improved since last November. “You can definitely see people are starting to shop a lot more. Temple Bar has picked back up where it left off.” They were scared, however, that they’d lose customers travelling in from outside of Dublin. “On Saturdays you can see people that we haven’t seen for months. I do think people are putting trust into the city again,” says Murphy-Jones.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F2VV6OR4EVEGDH7WMCTJPUVXN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798694},"content":"But he says that high rents and rates are an issue for retailers. “They’re the things that are making things close around us.” While he says the minimum wage increase is “brilliant for workers”, he adds: “But it’s also really hard for small independent businesses like myself, because we then need to make what we’re paying them. We need to increase our sales.” He calls for the Government to help small businesses manage this with grants or rate cuts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PLSN7DUE3RD75JEE7YRDIPGIVE","additional_properties":{"_id":"XZ2KZT7RP5HCREZMGO4USKTOSA"},"content":"Dublin riots: Gardaí release 99 photographs of ‘persons of interest’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"Q6XLNTOLUBH2TH2QPVTQUUL2GY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798695},"content":"Not too far from Temple Bar is the quirky gift and collectables shop Padison and Yule on College Green. Paddy Curran who runs the shop with his wife Alison. He believes the “vibe is good” in the city. “The city’s going in the right direction,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ISLQ4BHLRNARPC3DVSTNLXZ3OU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798696},"content":"But like others, Curran wants to see a greater Garda presence on the streets. “There should be more horses going up and down, guards on bikes,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RZZERJSCZ5A3JBUOIAATBMSMXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798697},"content":"The cost-of-living crisis has affected people’s ability to spend. “The higher spend isn’t there as much as it used to be,” says Curran. Like other retailers, he feels this could have an impact on Christmas sales. “When they spend, they’ll spend big, but it could be concentrated,” predicts Curran. “The concentration might be down to four or five weeks of high spend, rather than six or eight weeks.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TNLGTQBU7NBVXPCVQCI6ZNTURE","additional_properties":{"_id":"N762ZMCEFVHIXNM6BPZRFKISRM"},"content":"Urban Ireland: Architects and experts tell us how to stop the decline of Dublin and other Irish city centres","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"CG5PMWBBCZH2ZIVXLC34URB64M","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798698},"content":"Curran also feels there’s not enough differentiation between large retail giants, who might find it easier to absorb the 23% VAT rate, and smaller independent businesses. “And when you’re a small business, that couple of per cent makes a huge difference.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"NOPG37QBGFGZPPMIPIERNSEMZA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798699},"content":"A year on from the Dublin riots, the city still bears scars. But retailers are determined to keep going despite facing growing economic challenges. And even with the calls for more gardaí amid safety fears, the public are showing they want to spend time in the city centre. Research by Dublin Town shows a desire among people “to reclaim their city”, says Guiney.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JP6ZKCX7PRE7DLQ7RRFPYCJGOY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798700},"content":"Indeed, a recent event organised by Dublin Town, called Dublin by Night, saw almost 40,000 people enjoying two nights of free outdoor events on both sides of the Liffey. “The atmosphere was terrific – it shows what we can do,” says Guiney.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z76QU76K2JCVNDTRJVI3RZASYI","additional_properties":{"_id":"6L7EMHP6NJD3PHIZUE27J7D4UQ"},"embed":{"config":{},"id":"acast_podcast-69685","url":"/"},"subtype":"acast_podcast","type":"custom_embed"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Aoife Barry"}]},"description":{"basic":"As retailers gear up for a busy Christmas season, there are signs people are putting their trust back in the city"},"display_date":"2024-11-23T05:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"The Dublin riots, one year on: ‘I know what happened doesn’t represent Irish people’","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"MHRP765SYRCWLPUB2PL7636C4M","auth":{"1":"13699ada2f71e00327611e386a69e840efb1969acaabceb619e91c5dc94c68a6"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/MHRP765SYRCWLPUB2PL7636C4M.jpg"}},"subtype":"showcase","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"People"},{"name":"Ireland"},{"name":"Dublin"},{"name":"Life & Style"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/life-style/people/2024/11/23/the-dublin-riots-one-year-on-the-city-centre-is-coming-back-to-itself/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/life-style/people","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"People"}}}},{"_id":"NBUTDA6BFBD45ICQ2ID37LJW24","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":376,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/a7b98f1f-a8a0-4530-9174-9717e0271b36/versions/1732274097/media/6da3903e06161582e260fb01f558fbe6_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/ireland/dublin/2024/11/23/dublin-riots-one-year-on-north-inner-city-youth-traumatised-by-the-stigma-of-violence/","content_elements":[{"_id":"4ISTEFB35VA43FFEGNIA6FK55A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635412},"content":"A year on from the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dublin-riots/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin riots</a>, young residents of the north inner city still feel “unfairly blamed” and hurt by how their community was stigmatised afterwards.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4F46BOQSZRCHZG76VNSCS7U77Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635413},"content":"They are “annoyed”, feel nothing has improved and are “fearful” of similar clashes in future. Youth workers say many young people remain traumatised 12 months later.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NCVPULDNONEHVDJM57B4PNNDQ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635414},"content":"The Dublin riots broke out on November 23rd, 2023, following the stabbing of three children and a care worker outside a primary school on Parnell Square.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VXHHKAHA7FF2LBY6N7PDEKISWY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635415},"content":"In December <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2024/02/22/parnell-square-stabbing-accused-sent-forward-for-trial-to-central-criminal-court/\" target=\"_blank\">Riad Bouchaker</a>, an Irish citizen and Algerian national, of no fixed abode, was charged with attempted murder.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YFMXD3JKHBED5CU5HIOG32NPNE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635416},"content":"There have been multiple arrests and convictions in the year since then over the public disorder in the hours after the attack.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EQ6JMWHKGREUBFHZN4ID465QMQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635417},"content":"On Thursday, Declan Donaghey (28) of Williams Place Upper, Dorset Street, pleaded guilty to arson, violent disorder and criminal damage during the riots and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2024/11/20/man-who-set-fire-to-garda-patrol-car-in-dublin-riots-is-jailed-for-6-years/\" target=\"_blank\">was jailed</a> for 6½ years.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BHCADMYTVBD2VIIH4DEVDGYZB4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635418},"content":"“I do think he got too long,” says Sean (20) who does not want to give his full name, as he walks along Gardiner Street in Dublin this week. He believes they “just had to make an example out of him”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G7WM3KFUORCXJOQMQFMPEFVKY4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635419},"content":"He feels young people in the area were “big time” blamed for the riots. He didn’t get involved. “I used my brain, but I can see the way people were; they were frustrated and got involved,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J7RJ7G3BAVBUTOXEXGKUMST5CA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635420},"content":"A teenage girl on Sean McDermott Street, when asked how she feels ahead of the anniversary of the riots, says: “Everyone is kind of on edge, fearful it’s going to happen again.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MP6JSBK5QLKISVSTLPKPQJQOFE","additional_properties":{"_id":"SUGM5U546NHXPBZXPZLOE42VUI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"4YYPFOQGCVFOJCNJUZVJUEJEFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635422},"content":"Luke Fay (21) from Sheriff Street, who is a history and philosophy student at Trinity College Dublin, says: “Just because the area is seen as a bad area doesn’t mean people coming from there are bad.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J5F24O3C5NFWFNB27DLSAWFJM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635423},"content":"“When people are given opportunities and chances, they will take them. I am a testament to that,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FE3IZ4XISFATPLJDO65T5DQWM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635424},"content":"His family has lived in the north inner city for generations. His father, Mark Fay, runs a local shop with his grandfather Gerry – both well-known and respected community activists. Luke too is active, advocating for young people and sitting on the boards of the North Inner City Community Coalition and the North Wall Women’s Centre.","type":"text"},{"_id":"URLQQ72GBFE7RA5DUGFQ5EFFHU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635425},"content":"He was at home when the riots erupted getting texts from friends “caught up in it” and “desperate to get out”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3AMOSVMIINFSNHPW6TKNUUFCBE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635426},"content":"Local youth workers Dean Murray and Jonathan Dowling, who is also a criminologist, say anger had been festering in the community since Covid lockdowns, which had a more adverse impact on overcrowded, poorer homes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GRZDGK7BZZCXLFTLKKONDRWYDI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635427},"content":"“We are going to be cleaning up the impact of Covid on young people in disadvantaged areas for many years,” says Dowling.","type":"text"},{"_id":"POUWB4HEUNC2VLDJC5WLOIGPBA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635428},"content":"The return to post-Covid normality coincided with a sharp rise in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/immigration/\" target=\"_blank\">immigration</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SFAXLP7XTJFNHFGGM7Q4AADIXQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635429},"content":"“There was a lot of anger building in the community, a lot of protests in the area – in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2022/12/03/in-east-wall-a-struggle-to-control-the-narrative-over-asylum-seeker-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">East Wall</a>, on Talbot Street. People’s genuine fears were stoked by people who had far-right agendas,” says Murray.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3KKSQDQERFEYZFJPG4AVKSB3EU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635430},"content":"Dowling “panicked” when news of the stabbings broke. “I knew this was going to explode,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VUTPYQCWPVDTPFZWTNWQAJRGZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635431},"content":"In the immediate aftermath “a lot of kids were quite fearful”, says Dowling, “coming out of school with fear: ‘What if someone comes to my school with a knife?’”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EZL5XUZTXFAA3NEIEG4G663VTY","additional_properties":{"_id":"T5K6UMGTGVGLPCG2NHWBM3DASU"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"5BEKFGHQRBB4LLUPN74IUBX5DA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635433},"content":"Children of colour feared being attacked. Schools and clubs saw a drop in attendance in the days afterwards.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RYQDDGVFUZF65PSBHGHLXEJLUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635434},"content":"Many of Fay’s peers were “shook up that this could be allowed to happen, and worried for the future”. They then felt their community was blamed, he adds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GMUXURSPGFELRFMCOJO5WV2DXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635435},"content":"Minister for Justice Helen McEntee described those involved in the riots as “<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/12/08/justine-mccarthy-politicians-throwing-around-terms-like-scumbags-and-thugs-is-a-slippery-slope/\" target=\"_blank\">scumbags</a>”. Politicians described their horror at the violence but offered little comfort to those most affected, says Fay.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IHM76TBAVRF3XPJFTSWL5Z543U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635436},"content":"“The impact of the riots, especially on my community, was like a slap in the face,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X3CP347EEFEE7BSZYGYXX3LU7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635439},"content":"The area is one of sharp economic contrasts. The Irish Financial Services Centre area is classified by independent agency Pobal as “very affluent”, while adjacent homes around Sheriff Street, Oriel Street and Summerhill Parade are “very disadvantaged”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"546IMRVHFFBRHPKPOTQTM7XL3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635440},"content":"“It feels like the community is crying out for very small things that would make a huge difference but always it’s only the bare minimum that is done,” says Fay.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JD6D6DAPUNHOFFIZWAPCANSW2Y","additional_properties":{"_id":"XX7C2FQW4VFXZODNSM4O2ZRZVM"},"content":"Election 2024: Elderly in Dublin’s north inner city say they are unconvinced by politicians","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"YV636VARHBHC5D33ZPVGYLJSIE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635442},"content":"He believes a portion of Dublin City Council’s €35 million budget for a <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2024/11/17/it-will-rejuvenate-our-great-city-ambitious-plans-for-dublin-lido-move-a-step-closer/\" target=\"_blank\">swimming pool</a> on George’s Dock would have “a bigger, better impact” tackling antisocial behaviour than employing a hundred extra gardaí.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DVLLK4IQBBDS7AC6TM25WBYQTA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635443},"content":"“We know what the problems are and how to solve them,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SO7UCK4QJNEEBG2EWLZRCC625Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635444},"content":"Fay knows people his age or younger, sleeping rough and selling drugs – “kids who have trauma”. He says there are supports in our area that would help them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PA5CJ6JELVFHHB6VFN5GBDRML4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635445},"content":"“But just not enough,” he says. “The services that could save them are crying out for funding. 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The scheme was one of five PPP deals between the council and Mr McNamara that collapsed in 2008, leaving large flat complexes including O’Devaney Gardens derelict, and buildings such as the laundry unused.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YYDPX62OTRF6FAAUA7MWYIBS7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1731689475555},"content":"In 2018 the council was offered €14.5 million from international hotel group Toyoko Inn for the laundry site. The no-frills chain wanted to build a 350-bed hotel, student accommodation and shops. The proposal also included 60 apartments for social housing, likely to be used for senior citizens, as well as a memorial to the women who were incarcerated in the laundry.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S4MW6Y4SHZBBZN4H7ADFSUHAXU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731689475556},"content":"The sale of the laundry had been recommended by the 2017 Mulvey report on the regeneration of the north inner city so the proceeds could be used to fund the economic and social measures. 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Its case is bolstered by a feasibility study demonstrating the ambitious proposal is possible – and follows extensive consultation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F5NCPYWYL5FCHOW4KLGUSU2M3M","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069414},"content":"Created in partnership with acclaimed outdoor swimming architect Chris Romer-Lee of Studio Octopi in London and funded through an ongoing <a href=\"https://gofund.me/27103154\" target=\"_blank\">GoFundMe campaign</a> that has raised more than €11,000 of its €20,000 costs, the images “confirm the genuine opportunity that exists for the people of Dublin and beyond to enjoy a state-of-the-art heated outdoor swimming facility”, according to campaign founder Patrick Earls.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VWZ346RHCVGUBE2S3MYRG3IV4A","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069415},"content":"Updated designs include an accessible 50m all-season heated pool; a smaller learning pool; sauna and plunge pool; changing facilities; water gardens with public seating; restored dock walls; community function room; a cafe and viewing gallery. Conceptual images have been updated to take into account feedback from Dublin city councillors; <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dublin-city-council\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin City Council</a> (DCC) executive and the local community, he adds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NYQUSDXWBBCWVHAOQN7GYL3UVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069416},"content":"“These images communicate the enormous benefit a lido would bring to people in Dublin including long-established local communities, residents throughout the city, and visitors to the capital,” Earls says. “A heated outdoor pool would ensure year-round access for all types of swimmers, providing our city with an inclusive and unique facility.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MW7GP4OMRBGFLLAN4P4UZCJ5DA","additional_properties":{"_id":"OGA3USWMJFBCLKZXVV2NUY7WFA"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"NQTBZL7C4BHVTIP7PAUPAIMETY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069417},"content":"In July 2022 DCC announced plans for a public pool or lido and an emergency services training centre at the site, instead of the previously planned white-water rafting scheme, which became controversial – especially over escalating costs – and was refused funding by the Government.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J3DT35M3IFC6RBHFMZCWNPEHMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069418},"content":"It was envisaged these revised plans, estimated to cost at least €25 million, would result in 60 per cent of the site devoted to public pools and 40 per cent for a “swift water training facility” for <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dublin-fire-brigade\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin Fire Brigade</a>. However, the plans have yet to progress.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6OCWJP4IGFBFBKTCPXGGRQJINU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731830588097},"content":"The campaign group based in the docklands is seeking to remove the training facility from the plans so the site can be used entirely as a public lido.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WVR6R5GLVNGTHKLEEWKXFD74CA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069419},"content":"Earls wrote to The Irish Times in January 2021 as “Dublin City Council’s harebrained white-water rafting centre” was being progressed and entering tendering phase.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4QKOOU2EIFEOVFH3NMY43IJK6E","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069420},"content":"He hoped for an amenity to benefit ordinary Dubliners: “I’m not opposed to Ireland expanding its grossly deficient sporting infrastructure. But it strikes me that a 19th-century maritime dock calls out for a historically sensitive, people-friendly development.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3FM6M7WDSRHMFOM2YF3KCLEMRM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069421},"content":"Asking if it was another example of the living city being sacrificed for tourism interests, he suggested an outdoor swimming pool facility combined with parkland at the site north of the Liffey.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CH335CTC2JGNJOK35O4P4HSI3I","additional_properties":{"_id":"PIF2XBBY5NHNRLCSGCELKGIAPQ"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"FSJKXLUJBBAVHBB3BUWGIQD5ZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069422},"content":"Having returned from London, he says he wished to see Dublin enhanced by a citizen-friendly option. He with friends started a petition, knowing what is available in London, Scandinavia and Germany. Their petition was quickly supported by 5,000 people. “The idea chugged along since, but there is a serious proposal now on board. We’re getting closer to it being realised.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ENLE5EUSPJDPFF46FSAOABGZOA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069423},"content":"Their study concludes an outdoor swimming facility of a specific scale would be viable from a design and economic perspective. The engineering firm Civic, enthused by the potential of the municipal proposal, provided expertise on a pro-bono basis.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PTFQAFY5LNGQZBTOPM6OBVYWLQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069424},"content":"“These images reflect an optimal design informed by a feasibility study we have been undertaking for the past 18 months,” Earls adds. “Having examined all possible uses for the site, a medium-sized inclusive lido combining swimming pools, green space and community facilities offer the most value for the public.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"AZSLOG76JZG55GIEGX3C2Y2XRQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069425},"content":"Romer-Lee says he is very happy with the latest design which proved to be an amazing project to work on and hopes it will catch the eye and ensure debate is “angled in the right direction”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HCAVUNDVHZAXFMW2KNCIHHYNNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069426},"content":"The George’s Dock site is unique, he adds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DZ6KATHD4ZEKHJXMQD4LUIWOQA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069427},"content":"Extensive planting will shroud the pool and ensure privacy while the public water garden will be at the southern end. “We are trying to appeal to everybody – swimmer or not. It’s a new blue and green place for the city centre that reduces the impact of glass, steel and cement.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"RSNOXXBQFJADDBJ4YOFDG5WKTI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069428},"content":"He specialises in water-based projects, particularly community outdoor lidos and set up the <a href=\"https://www.futurelidos.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Future Lidos campaign group</a>, which shares knowledge and resources and is involved in 40 campaigns throughout the UK and Ireland – including a floating lido on the Thames and restoring an art deco tidal pool in Scotland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NDGRPWFWFVEAPAAHZLWXQSXTHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069429},"content":"Earls says its proposals also promote mental and physical health benefits for all users, swimming and water safety for children and adults, and accessible green space and seating for non-swimmers. The pool will be heated sustainably with ground- and air-sourced heat pumps.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OZH77VYDMRFJFFPQQ3FZC5SHW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069430},"content":"The campaign plans to present its feasibility study to the DCC executive and city councillors early in 2025, with the ultimate aim of DCC – which owns the site – starting preliminary work to advance the development. The group is calling for DCC to build on voluntary work done to date and commit to funding “a further public-coded feasibility study from the current capital budget”. They have been encouraged by useful informal discussions with DCC and councillors.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R3BHZNHBIVHUXGB4ZITIGV6ZME","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069431},"content":"The lido has secured backing from the national governing body of swimming, <a href=\"https://swimireland.ie/\" target=\"_blank\">Swim Ireland</a>, which has partnered with Dublin City Lido to provide support and to advance the campaign in alignment with its national swimming strategy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q5C6AOFDHJDOFKMLNLJIDCYHIQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"3S4EOVGYMJCVTALQ6XL5GBHSIU"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"AV7NZMETUZCQXOTPTK2QMUXPZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069432},"content":"While recognising many differing infrastructure demands on DCC, “we believe there is a strong case for an outdoor lido in Dublin city,” says Sarah Keane, Swim Ireland’s chief executive. “We recognise DCC’s existing commitment to sporting infrastructure and indeed swimming pools ... we would urge them to support the call by the Dublin City Lido campaign for a feasibility study to consider the practical aspects of a lido in Dublin and to support reasoned decision making.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"IQJSTGFDDRFLLDRKKHBBBP7YSE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069433},"content":"Dublin is lagging behind other European cities of comparative size and density in the provision of municipal outdoor swimming facilities. Cities such as Helsinki and Copenhagen operate a minimum of three lidos. “Dublin is falling behind even smaller cities, from Bristol to Amsterdam, which have one and seven lidos respectively, despite lower population density,” Earls says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FW7MB7YETRFFHNX7EV6HBL2RWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069434},"content":"“Other liveable, modern and ambitious cities offer recreational and sporting facilities of this nature. For a metropolitan city of our size we would expect to have at least one outdoor public swimming pool in Dublin. We believe it’s not a case of if, but when Dublin is brought in line with other global cities in the provision of these public amenities,” adds campaign director Sarah Walker.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IWG2EUZUJJDCFJXKD3Y62JRUDM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069435},"content":"“The project already aligns with widespread national and EU policy and we would expect to see the Department of Sport, and local Government and TDs respond to the importance of the project by assisting in securing funding. We hope George’s Dock will be the first lido but do not expect it to be the only one in our city in the next 10 years.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"GFGP2A5DXRANPER5ZSZ6BAPJEU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069436},"content":"The new designs follow the recent <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/10/22/back-to-the-future-with-the-dublin-city-taskforce-report/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin City Taskforce report</a>, published amid debate about challenges facing Dublin’s inner city and decline in social cohesion. The campaign has consulted extensively with local community and sports groups. Feedback has been positive with recognition that an inclusive facility could provide a vital piece of social infrastructure helping to regenerate the inner city.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F4X4GZFT7RGAVCQDKDPI3WWWQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069437},"content":"“These challenges facing the north inner city are complex and multifaceted,” Walker says. “However, we believe development of a well-operated and inclusive lido would have positive social effects helping to rejuvenate our great city. It could empower local communities, attract more Dubliners to the city centre and make inner city living even more appealing.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7JRYMDI7MBGJFLCO2ZXPNBFLU4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069438},"content":"This view is echoed by taskforce chairman David McRedmond, chief executive of An Post: “[Our] recommendations focused on offering Dubliners compelling reasons to live in and visit the city centre, and the lido is a great example of an ambitious amenity that will address dereliction and create an appealing, accessible and positive space for all Dubliners. While the taskforce report was focused on broader elemental actions, I am excited by the lido proposal which deserves very serious consideration.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2C4O5I2RW5CMTE32VYHOEZCU3I","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069439},"content":"Dublin City Lido has identified the best operational model to ensure a high-standard public facility where affordable access is guaranteed. It says the facility should be run by an expert not-for-profit operator on behalf of DCC, which should retain ownership of the facility. This model is successfully deployed at other Dublin facilities such as Sean McDermott Street Swimming Pool and Swan Leisure Pools in Rathmines and Crumlin. Experienced operators have expressed interest in running the lido, Earls says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U2BSHABGNNCHDKV2BKA3VA4ZKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069440},"content":"Romer-Lee confirms its design has been costed but, conscious of the site’s recent history, the figures will be provided to DCC first. It will be comparable to any other leisure facility or public building such as a library. “We will not break boundaries in terms of cost.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCDY6C2IB5FUNMX3YVDX7FFP3I","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Kevin O'Sullivan"}},"name":"Kevin O'Sullivan"}]},"description":{"basic":"Dublin City Lido campaign has updated it designs to include heated pool, learning pool, sauna and plunge pool, as well as water gardens and cafe"},"display_date":"2024-11-17T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"‘We’re getting closer to it being realised’: Ambitious plans for Dublin lido gather momentum","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"NOB22QWUHZDL7BPRT7VUWV4P6Y","auth":{"1":"f8c31a51211b124a4d1cf3be13ffeb55188a3849eb2e1198626ab122bd5f346d"},"focal_point":{"x":1325,"y":1075},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/NOB22QWUHZDL7BPRT7VUWV4P6Y.jpg"}},"subtype":"feature","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"People"},{"name":"Ireland"},{"name":"Dublin"},{"name":"Life & Style"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/life-style/people/2024/11/17/it-will-rejuvenate-our-great-city-ambitious-plans-for-dublin-lido-move-a-step-closer/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/life-style/people","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"People"}}}},{"_id":"G4XKJMLVF5C2BHUSRB7TICPVZ4","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":269,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/75fc6a10-31e1-4f63-82cf-eef1c4874a13/versions/1731607996/media/26cc181add40288b78ceec8f4f94dd0e_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/ireland/housing-planning/2024/11/15/cost-rental-apartments-at-odevaney-gardens-priced-at-almost-1900-per-month/","content_elements":[{"_id":"5FU7LL3AURFWPL5QRN4DNEQJLE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731605148728},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/renting/\" target=\"_blank\">Rents</a> of almost €1,900 a month will be charged for some of the first cost-rental apartments at O’Devaney Gardens in Dublin city, making them the most expensive homes yet provided under the State-subsidised scheme.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SJP6THBQENAFHJ7BJSZVWZ7TOM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731605148730},"content":"Figures show rents of €1,490 for a one-bedroom apartment, €1,695 for a two-bed and €1,895 for a three-bed have been agreed for the first 75 cost-rental apartments in the vast complex of more than 1,000 homes, which are being constructed in blocks of up to 14 storeys.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4GYFATWZR5FNPCAZANIXFQNZPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731605148731},"content":"The setting of rents follows several years of negotiations between <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dublin-city-council\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin City Council</a> and developer Bartra on the purchase of a portion of the homes for the cost-rental scheme, which offers State-subsidised rents to low- and middle-income workers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DBCXZLFWKJD2BGV3J7NMGUJ44Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1731605148732},"content":"City councillors five years ago voted in favour of a contentious deal with Bartra for the sale of the 14-acre site of the former 1950s flats complex off the North Circular Road.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V23NBFCNGBDPVI2QEOTCDYBXJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731612840712},"content":"Under the deal, 30 per cent of the homes were to be reserved for social housing and 20 per cent for affordable purchase; the remaining 50 per cent were available to Bartra to sell privately.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B7HMM3R4TRBUFI7L6T2PJGP5CI","additional_properties":{"_id":"WIHWRK46KNE37C3MGPK3SZPAHI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"AWNLXHEHYFGRDN6NJOCAUQ3YLU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731605148733},"content":"However, to secure the agreement of councillors, Bartra offered a portion of these private apartments to the council or a nominated housing body for a cost-rental scheme. A total of 264 homes are to be used for cost rental and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/tuath-housing\" target=\"_blank\">Tuath Housing</a> has been selected by the council to manage the first 75 of these, which are due to be available in 2026.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BVNX3OHE7VCPNP4XXDJ2CWIX6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1731605148735},"content":"Under the cost-rental scheme, rents are based on the cost of building, managing and maintaining the properties. A spokeswoman for Tuath said the rents agreed for the first 75 apartments were “more than 30 per cent below the current market rates for the area”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HARLU77XINCTTDWLRVL3J7UNAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731605148736},"content":"However, Sinn Féin housing spokesman <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/eoin-o-broin\" target=\"_blank\">Eoin Ó Broin</a> said while the rents were lower than those charged for new tenancies, they were higher than existing tenancies in the surrounding area. “These are rents which are not affordable for the overwhelming majority of people who would be eligible for cost-rental housing.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"C7FGOYFNIVGTJMBEUQYREXQDT4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731605148738},"content":"The cost-rental system is designed for workers who earn too much to qualify for social housing but cannot afford private market rents. However, under the terms of the scheme, applicants cannot spend more than one-third of their income on rent, which would exclude many potential applicants for O’Devaney Gardens, Mr Ó Broin said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KTPP2VKELNFL7F3DO45GHL2E5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1731605148740},"content":"“This exposes the folly of gifting this land to Bartra. This site should only ever have been developed by Dublin City Council for public housing. Leaving aside the frightening figure of €1,895, no one looking at these figures could say almost €1,500 for a one-bed is affordable.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QX6OA7OXPNEQVDETO7RPXN3CFY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731605148741},"content":"Agreement is also understood to have been reached for the cost-rental homes at Oscar Traynor Woods in Coolock, where 340 homes will be available for cost-rental tenants. Prices are lower for this Glenveagh-built development, with one-beds expected to cost €1,183, two-beds €1,577, and three-beds €1,742. The scheme will be managed by <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/cluid-housing\" target=\"_blank\">Clúid Housing</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"43K5HHROFFF4FNGGWCQMJB6K74","additional_properties":{"_id":1731605148742},"content":"The first 16 affordable purchase homes at Oscar Traynor Woods, which are also State subsidised, were sold in recent months <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2024/06/25/dublin-city-affordable-homes-in-coolock-priced-at-up-to-475000/\" target=\"_blank\">with prices ranging from €254,358 to €475,000</a>, with the higher-end prices drawing considerable criticism over the summer months.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WAOU4DSF5RBRHLIKHLD3UEQMKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731605148743},"content":"While the prices for the O’Devaney Gardens affordable purchase scheme have yet to be set, the higher rental prices indicate they are likely to exceed those at Oscar Traynor Woods.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FJCJN6R35RH3ZPRX2NZRKQ3MDY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731605148744},"content":"Bartra said it had “no role in the process” of setting cost-rental levels. A Glenveagh spokesman said the company’s revenues from Oscar Traynor Woods were fixed and “there is no mechanism for Glenveagh to amend or increase its pricing”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3VLNQ7OOVNCYNNRNLQYODNRVMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731605148745},"content":"The council said cost-rental prices would be a “minimum of 25 per cent below comparable market rents in the area”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCDY6C2IB5FUNMX3YVDX7FFP3I","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Olivia Kelly"}},"name":"Olivia Kelly"}]},"description":{"basic":"Cost-rental maximum of €1,895 for O’Devaney Gardens and €1,742 for Oscar Traynor Woods"},"display_date":"2024-11-15T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Cost-rental apartments at O’Devaney Gardens priced at almost €1,900 per month","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"MLHM2IPBVTEBWPMZM2HNWKB3FI","auth":{"1":"64944f9d396bc01b140764532a27a11a5bc4c8898e5f1ac4cebe073fa00a4eba"},"focal_point":{"x":744,"y":420},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/MLHM2IPBVTEBWPMZM2HNWKB3FI.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Housing & Planning"},{"name":"Dublin"},{"name":"Ireland"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/ireland/housing-planning/2024/11/15/cost-rental-apartments-at-odevaney-gardens-priced-at-almost-1900-per-month/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/ireland/housing-planning","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Housing & Planning"}}}},{"_id":"MBBSLDGAMVEYLCVYTOUJW3BRNI","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":198,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/532e9da4-2cfe-4f58-83d6-384014b10347/versions/1731617920/media/9968add373d563179a0480618c1333b6_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/ireland/dublin/2024/11/14/dublin-christmas-lights-switch-on-as-traders-nervously-optimistic-about-business/","content_elements":[{"_id":"VWZ5GG3FENFHTHS6PZMWXVEUCI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731598398132},"content":"It’s beginning to look a lot like <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/christmas/\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas</a> with towns and cities across the country starting to light up.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4RQY6NGP35AZLFETIXT26ZK5PE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601583018},"content":"While the sound of sleigh bells are still some way off, the ringing of cash registers is growing louder with retailers nervously optimistic about what lies ahead.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QWV2U6G2QZB4ZDMIPKN7S7MDUQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731598398133},"content":"The Christmas lights on <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/grafton-street/\" target=\"_blank\">Grafton Street</a> in Dublin were turned on by children from Little Blue Heroes Foundation, a <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/garda-siochana/\" target=\"_blank\">Garda</a> charity supporting families of children with serious illnesses, on Thursday evening, with a total of 25 other streets across the city following its lead courtesy of business group Dublin Town.","type":"text"},{"_id":"24JARNBVZFG5ZDJNBS24OAHD4Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1731598398134},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/richard-guiney/\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Guiney</a>, the group’s chief executive, said retailers he had spoken to, particularly those north of the Liffey, were “nervous” about trading with footfall down slightly on this time last year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HTXMMEFL4FGEDF6UHE3BAW4HIY","additional_properties":{"_id":"5T5FWLB4W5D7FNW4SRINMADDXI"},"content":"Primark expecting a good Christmas, says parent’s boss","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"Q4HGWUCALNE2HFVLTH7ULNSUCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731598398135},"content":"However, he said while some retailers remained “concerned” about the impact of traffic management changes implemented in September restricting the flow of cars through the city, others were upbeat about the prospect of footfall increasing over the coming weeks.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UM673BTWTNEKFCGKFFXUNDS74E","additional_properties":{"_id":1731598398136},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"BMLRQLLTG5FENJSBV5BHIDX3GI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601583023},"content":"Mr Guiney said “it hasn’t been a great year” to date but “fortunes can be turned around”. He recalled the concerns expressed for trade after rioting in the city centre on November 23rd last, but said “footfall was actually up in December and trade exceeded expectations” afterwards.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YJ7VLB3MHJGRZFIHYWM75TPOWM","additional_properties":{"_id":"LMHE2IS6KNFAZCZ33LHWPBAFHM"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"XQLBEFBR2VGTPMFXNAND3LWFZI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731598398138},"content":"This is the 16th year Dublin Town has illuminated the city and Mr Guiney said the Christmas lights “are by far the biggest task we undertake for our business members and people of the city, and beyond, each year”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SU5ZXUCHMBHIDPJV7SB4B3SSTA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731598398139},"content":"All told, he said, it takes 30 people, working through the night over four weeks, to erect the lights. “Every single bulb and fixture is tested by Dublin Town’s lighting contractor in advance of going up.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2GVZDMRX6NDD3KMBCJNR4RLA6M","additional_properties":{"_id":"JZZLQ2U62BAJFFHIDTN2IPASYA"},"content":"Conor Pope calculates Christmas will cost a family of five €2,373. 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While the retailer’s window display centres around the 12 days of Christmas, its Christmas shop has been open for almost 100 days already with the first decorations of the year sold last August.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XFBJLVNX4VH6ZFCNHSME775MU4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731598398146},"content":"“Our Christmas shop has been really successful this year,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X2AEFIK7Z5DA7OPAWWDJVVPM2Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1731598398147},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"W3AOHJXX35BMVF3L6X7KGYNS24","additional_properties":{"_id":1731598398148},"content":"He said the luxury market in Ireland “is outperforming the international market at the moment and we’re quite confident that we’re going to see a lot of customers coming into our two Dublin stores in particular”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCDY6C2IB5FUNMX3YVDX7FFP3I","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Conor Pope"}},"name":"Conor Pope"}]},"description":{"basic":"Grafton Street set for festive season as children from Little Blue Heroes Foundation launch illuminations in city"},"display_date":"2024-11-14T20:53:33.789Z","headlines":{"basic":"Dublin Christmas lights switch on as traders nervously optimistic about business","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"OFCT5MR6OVFA3N2VY6W33QH3TQ","auth":{"1":"c04f0ad7f109ec20b88cadea85428d8e6c347b16d6c9c96c35a1f5221d667dba"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/OFCT5MR6OVFA3N2VY6W33QH3TQ.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Dublin"},{"name":"Ireland"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/ireland/dublin/2024/11/14/dublin-christmas-lights-switch-on-as-traders-nervously-optimistic-about-business/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/ireland/dublin","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Dublin"}}}},{"_id":"4R3ET4N635AZVFU4QFMV2XOJIQ","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":149,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/f89e0526-a646-4153-8033-271eebb94ea1/versions/1731599395/media/6a1870cef9042011a2339048ae61776b_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/transport/2024/11/14/new-busconnects-routes-pushed-back-until-january-due-to-risk-of-christmas-confusion/","content_elements":[{"_id":"F4CSXGP4QFBUFIHK334ZRLCM5Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1731595716885},"content":"New <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/busconnects\" target=\"_blank\">BusConnects</a> services which were due to come into effect in December have been deferred until January, the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/national-transport-authority/\" target=\"_blank\">National Transport Authority</a> (NTA) has announced.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UCIROWOBR5FILNOU4IQOPFMLTQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731595716887},"content":"The NTA said introducing the changes in the run up to Christmas may have caused confusion among <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/public-transport/\" target=\"_blank\">bus passengers</a>. 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These routes are to areas including Bray, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dublin/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin</a> city centre, Ballymun and Santry.","type":"text"},{"_id":"INYQ2G4FRFEAXPEYXAIYCHO6C4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731595716889},"content":"Radial 19, a route running between Dublin Airport, DCU and Parnell Square is also affected, as are routes X1 and X2 from Kilcoole, Co <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/wicklow\" target=\"_blank\">Wicklow</a>, to the city centre, and Newcastle, Co Wicklow, to the city centre respectively.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NGD4KN64V5BTZOXJLNG62O6KQQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731597495352},"content":"A series of L routes serving Bray, north Wicklow and South Dublin are also affected:","type":"text"},{"_id":"T3FC6VM52ZAMFETSEUF6S2IRA4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731595716890},"type":"list"},{"_id":"SHC4IHXHDNDRXCHJV5JH3THXKM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731595716899},"content":"Together the routes form Phase 6A of the wider BusConnects project. 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However, he said the electrification of the fleet, due to be completed over the next decade, meant the buses could stay and apartments built in the space above the garages.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HK5K2KYSKVCN3JS264I7OW5MXQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730915685238},"content":"“We have to think about how we use our depots, including Donnybrook and Ringsend. Could we not build over the bus station? If it’s going to be an electric bus you don’t have fumes, you don’t have the same noise, and there are really good continental examples,” Mr Ryan said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B4XVN3ICJFGTFP56LXFHORJZ4Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1730915685239},"content":"“The likes of Ringsend – that’s really good land beside the Grand Canal Dock. 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People like that do have good hearts,” Kiernan said, sitting at the front entrance to the Light House cafe on Tuesday afternoon.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J7PRYJOBCFA7JFZOMHDNVAE3BM","additional_properties":{"_id":1729845663834},"content":"“He’d do anything for you.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EGSXFVNTK5BXTOQV7XPW6XA4JM","additional_properties":{"_id":1729790606946},"content":"Byrne lost his former girlfriend Tracey Pepper, a Ballymun native, when she died in October 2020, Kiernan says. “[He] never stopped talking about her.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"H442HYUJBBF3POKRSXZ2SGROT4","additional_properties":{"_id":1729790606947},"content":"A message of condolence – signed “Derek” – left under Pepper’s RIP.ie death notice reads: “Tray your [sic] the love of my life my biggest wish is to have you back.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4QSXQIC3SFD6ZPT3ZPJHCFGM5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1729790606948},"content":"After her death, Byrne went “downhill”, says Kiernan. “He really missed his girlfriend.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"R3N2LLIZZNERNEQ5XAHK6BWVWQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1729790606949},"content":"Byrne did express a desire to tackle his addiction issues in recent times. 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The deployment of 1,000 additional gardaí on the city streets would make a huge difference to public safety, but also the perception of safety – vital to attracting people back to the city centre. In a similar vein it recommends more security on public transport and “city wardens” focused on tackling littering and antisocial behaviour.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SJET6HBLIFBXXLL5I5FK7S3HRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1729528583729},"content":"It also recommends enacting legislation to prohibit social media platforms circulating footage of gardaí engaged in their work, again ambitious, but also impractical.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R3KRI4FCVBBVBBHXPW4AJVE27E","additional_properties":{"_id":1729528583730},"content":"The report’s “big move” for “more targeted and better located services for vulnerable populations” includes a recommendation in a <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dublin-region-homeless-executive\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin Region Homeless Executive</a> report published exactly three years ago for bylaws to tackle the proliferation of volunteer groups handing out tents or providing other services to homeless people. 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Mr Murphy defended co-living as one solution to the housing crisis and an “exciting” choice to young workers “like a very trendy, kind of boutique hotel-type place”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UNQHXPHOAFAQBOMQIENVH2MNXY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732647228402},"content":"His successor as minister for housing, Darragh O’Brien, in late 2020 banned new co-living applications following concerns developers were eschewing construction of traditional apartment schemes in favour of cheaper co-living developments.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LJMMTV7SKJEFJOCE3HTAHVPSWI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732647228403},"content":"Supporting the ban Mr Murphy said co-living was only ever intended to play a limited and “niche role” in the housing market.","type":"text"},{"_id":"22OAVOQ35ZGIFLG2PC54CMTRSM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732647228404},"content":"Bartra opened Niche Living in Dún Laoghaire, the State’s first co-living complex, in 2023 charging €1,880 a month per person. The cost has since risen to €1,990 per month, but studios are also being offered for stays of just two nights.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2IRD2CS6ARD7NOPJMFIQ4FDKRA","additional_properties":{"_id":"YVNN63LHGFHGTF4EPQPUPYSCPI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"6ODGFEYO7NAXLMBHDAVPEPN7AI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732647228405},"content":"Following the advertisement of the studios on holiday site <a href=\"http://booking.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Booking.com</a> the council issued a warning letter to Bartra for “alleged unauthorised development” due to “non-compliance” with planning permission as “residency occupancy lengths” were “not being adhered to”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MT3ILAN7WJHUNJZWXAJZVBWWUE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732647228406},"content":"However, following a response from Bartra, the council early this month dropped its enforcement action.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FH6XU53EENDE3A4D5JSHZAT5PA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732647228407},"content":"The council said it had “considered legal advice obtained” and accepted the duration of letting was not defined in the ministerial guidelines governing shared accommodation developments. The council also noted the planning permission for the complex did not include a condition in relation to the duration of letting.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WM5OSTL3NVAKNIEHOIOK5EEZ5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732647228408},"content":"The council did “not consider that there is any further planning enforcement action ... available at this time,” it said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PBQHXVVKZFAWHG6SKPCYYL4I6Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732647228409},"content":"“The owners have been reminded of the requirement that the unit/suites are let on a single occupancy basis only and of their obligation to ensure that any third-party platforms advertise the units/suites on that basis,” the council said. <a href=\"http://booking.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Booking.com</a> is advertising the studios for two guests.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X33Z47OVIBE2NPB56KJUMXYJ74","additional_properties":{"_id":"7CZNRCIYYJF25G2NWRJW37GOLU"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"LRKSWTRXVZAIFF7ENY424FXL5Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732647228410},"content":"Bartra did not respond to requests for comment. The Department of Housing said “enforcement matters are the responsibility of Local Authorities” and “the Minister cannot exercise any power or control in relation to any particular case with which a planning authority or the Board is or may be concerned”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCDY6C2IB5FUNMX3YVDX7FFP3I","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Olivia Kelly"}},"name":"Olivia Kelly"}]},"description":{"basic":"Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council drops planning enforcement case against developer Bartra following legal advice"},"display_date":"2024-11-28T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Co-living can be used for Airbnb-style short lets due to 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in Dublin was about €28 million. “We get approximately €9 million from the HSE, leaving a shortfall across the four Dublin local authorities of €19 million, about €10 million of which is ours.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DWSNWFN3DNCT7NQPQBI2BGW5RE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732565264166},"content":"Mr Shakespeare said he had engaged “quite extensively over the last two or three months” with the HSE and the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/department-of-health/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Health</a>, but despite the intervention of Minister for Housing and Local Government <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/darragh-obrien/\" target=\"_blank\">Darragh O’Brien</a> a “derisory” sum was offered.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PZ6Q2ECEBBBS5G5LWTXF372XDI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732565264167},"content":"“I am not even going to tell you the derisory offer that was made, but needless to say my second word was ‘... off’, and we’re now at a bit of an 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The only other drastic action is to remove 14 ambulances from the system in Dublin. That causes all manner of issues in relation to patient safety.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"SBCCKVE7EJFBDLTC2UZGUMTMA4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732565264171},"content":"Cllr McAdam said the budget provided a “clearer picture of how the permanent government and the Civil Service see local authorities like Dublin City Council. Effectively they see us as excrement on their shoes”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EGZZ7YKPWFG4FCOSNY7YSGCIAA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732565264172},"content":"“That is seen no clearer than in the approach of the HSE and the Department of Health senior officials in their failure to engage meaningfully in the shortfall ... over Dublin Fire Brigade financial contributions.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"GRKSSKNLCNEJ5ASO2JGBWPUBUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732565264173},"content":"The HSE said it was not in a position to respond to Mr Shakespeare’s comments on Monday night, but said it makes a financial contribution annually to the council for the ambulance service. “There is no SLA [service level agreement] in place between the HSE and DCC to vary the amount of the contribution made or accede to, agree with or accept any alternative operational or costing model.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"UBHOD4XJSFDBDERD5K73DH4AT4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732565264174},"content":"Councillors ratified the 2025 budget, which included a 1.8 per cent increase in the commercial rates multiplier. 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Today his shop bears little sign of what occurred a year ago, when it was looted during <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dublin-riots/\" target=\"_blank\">the rioting</a> of November 23rd, during an evening when <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin</a>’s city centre became, for a number of hours, a scene of social unrest, with arson and vandalism in streets in and around <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/o-connell-street/\" target=\"_blank\">O’Connell Street</a>. A bus went on fire on O’Connell Street. Assaults were made on <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/an-garda-siochana/\" target=\"_blank\">gardaí </a>and members of the public.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BXWZAZW7L5C2TMT7KXFBP3VYUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798664},"content":"“It was just shock. I didn’t know what to think,” says Nolan of that night. “There’s glass everywhere, a lot of the bikes are missing, and things are trashed – till, computer, phone, everything is gone, and some of the customer bikes as well.” He and business partner Pawel Naczke built a barrier and locked themselves into the Bike Stop, fearful of more looting.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4XAJL526XVF2DG5D2TN24FJOPI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798665},"content":"Twelve months on, Nolan and Naczke are among the many <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin </a>retailers once more preparing for <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/christmas/\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas</a>. On a visit to several businesses across the city centre, it’s clear that many retailers have moved on after the riots. They have learned that there’s a certain resilience to Dubliners, with shoppers quickly proving their support. But they can see clearly too that the city still has its challenges, whether it’s shoplifting, what some see as a high VAT rate, or high rents and rates.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QUMI4IUBPFAQLK46C5PZQXUT2E","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798666},"content":"Memories remain of last December, when the city had to summon up festive cheer during a difficult time. “That was a hard month. Business was down. We couldn’t get stock in on time,” Nolan tells The Irish Times Magazine. Yet 2024 turned out to be one of Bike Stop’s best years since it opened in 2021. “People were making an effort to come to us,” says Nolan. “They’d heard about the riot and stuff like that. And we’ve a lot of return customers.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MFDCMYSIQJBMNAWRXSNLNS34NM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798667},"content":"For Naczke, the effects of the riots lingered a long time. He also owns Vintage Dublin, a shop crammed with beautiful antique furniture on the floor below Bike Stop. He moved from Poland to Ireland when he was 19. Now 40, he says the riots made him feel stressed and unsafe for months afterwards.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QZEYXXEBUCO7UFUNJP5NSUWOZA","additional_properties":{"_id":"CA4DPU2NARB43FNLYNMHAIERRI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"ZRJSRCCIYNFVTCSQJWW25NUO5U","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798668},"content":"“It was the first time ever I was thinking: I am an <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/immigration/\" target=\"_blank\">immigrant</a>. I am not born here. I am not from here. And if they want to sacrifice me as an example of ‘another immigrant’, I could be the target. Even though I’m 100 per cent rooted here, I pay heavy taxes, I run shops and I bought a house.” But he adds: “I know what happened doesn’t represent Irish people.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"I6T7Z7LVRZAE5NHQP26KNUTKJI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798669},"content":"Still, he wondered if it was all worth it: working hard in Ireland only to feel unsafe. “Maybe I just go and work in a wine bar in the south of Spain, rather than trying hard,” he remembers thinking. The support of his wife and Nolan helped, as did the outpouring of concern from customers, and over time he began to feel safer in the city. “I definitely see Dublin being a little bit safer. I don’t see many TikTok or X clips about machetes on Talbot Street or tourists being beaten,” Naczke says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NU4U3IZMJ5CDTM6N62LYF6KOOE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798670},"content":"Nolan says Capel Street, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2022/05/20/capel-street-becomes-dublins-longest-traffic-free-street-1.4884011/\" target=\"_blank\">which was pedestrianised in 2022</a>, has “an exciting but sometimes nerve-racking energy about it”, with a vibrant nightlife thanks to its restaurants and pubs. While he’s a fan of its new benches, he says they are often used by people drinking, or using drugs. He sees drug dealing openly taking place on the street. While there was a stronger Garda presence in the city centre following the riots, Nolan and all the retailers The Irish Times Magazine speak to say they felt this returned to pre-riots level within a few months. So when asked about his hopes for 2025, Nolan appeals for more gardaí. “Garda on patrol more consistently, and forever, not just for a small period. I think it would make a big difference,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KVLRBAWUJZHCHPEJOXRSMWBYUA","additional_properties":{"_id":"25Q2TSJF7ZA67LU6UGQMJQOOQM"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"BQGEGFCYZBED5MDTUIOGPVQ35A","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798671},"content":"A few streets over from Bike Stop Dublin on Lower Liffey Street, beauty therapist Neelu White of Neelu’s Beauty Salon is on a break between clients. Originally from India, she came to Ireland in 1983 with her brother. “I only came here for three weeks,” she laughs. A conversation at the Indian-Irish Cultural Club led to two years of teaching sitar in UCC. (She has a Master’s in classical Indian music and another in English.) She used her free time to do a beauty course, which ended up having a big impact on the eyebrows of Dublin. “I brought threading to Ireland,” she says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FGTPUJBXFFE45L4CL6JX6IH4FI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798672},"content":"She’s still in Ireland 41 years on. While Dún Laoghaire has her heart, as it’s where she first opened her business, White has been based on Lower Liffey Street for two years. During the riots she had to take shelter in a nearby Chinese restaurant along with several other people. “The city centre is coming back to itself,” says White. “We had a rough year. With the riots and a lot of the drugs and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/homeless-crisis/\" target=\"_blank\">the homeless issue</a>, people were scared. My clients didn’t want to come into the city centre.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"CPON2NMEJFGY5LIQWHWE3YEVQM","additional_properties":{"_id":"4ONNQOHKZJAFDO4I7VE3LS6K7A"},"content":"Dublin riots: Gardaí remove photographs of some ‘persons of interest’ from website after identifying them","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"TZXUI3ERTR722OGR5NNM4NGFZY","additional_properties":{"_id":"ZHYTQFXZZBGRTH2XWEOTATDVTE"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"4RFLHNZ465FG7OF7FAIRJAP6FA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798673},"content":"But she gestures to the revamped street outside her premises, saying that since the summer, things have improved. “<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dublin-city-council/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin City Council</a> is amazing. Look at the plants on the street – they have made it so beautiful and so inviting. Now there’s such tourism here. People are enjoying coming into town. Before that, people were scared of being attacked.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FIM3YJMVQJGGLA6RVIVVEKLQH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798674},"content":"White says she hasn’t experienced racism in Ireland. “If Irish people were [racist], I wouldn’t have any business. I don’t think the Irish people are, but every country has a few bad people,” she says. She describes herself and other people who have moved to Ireland from abroad as guests who should respect the country. “I would say Irish people are very kind, and you have to return to them kindness. I have a son with special needs and I’ve had such support from my clients.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2TQBUT5IQVGTBIPS4GKAIDNYB4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798675},"content":"But the far-right undertones of the rioting did worry her. “Being coloured was a bit scary, because of what happened and how they behaved. But I had trust in the Irish.” Some of White’s clients are nervous about coming into the city, and are doing more shopping in the suburbs, she says. But many customers have stayed loyal, and walk-ins have begun returning in recent months.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2RC2QRRP2VAYRCJYKCSA4VFXLU","additional_properties":{"_id":"W77EAQI6VBDWFPAVDTOINLWPCA"},"content":"Dublin’s Capel Street named among coolest in the world","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"UPVLHRS22BDEVDRZYCSDP5O5TI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798676},"content":"Like the other business owners, White believes more visible policing would deter criminal activity: recently, someone damaged the outside of her business with a hammer. She’d like measures such as cheaper car-parking fees to make city visits less expensive for clients.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BKN7D65XT5GAPCZCBU5R7KNE54","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798677},"content":"Across the Liffey in Books Upstairs on D’Olier Street, punters are relaxing in the bookshop’s busy cafe. Manager Louisa Earls’s father, Maurice Earls, set up the business with his friend Enda O’Doherty in 1978, and it relocated to D’Olier Street almost a decade ago. She is anticipating a particularly busy time for the shop this Christmas. “November is like the calm before the storm,” she says over coffee.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SSUCVWBSY5ANRGQPLMPAQ4QMLY","additional_properties":{"_id":"TOTWARTPIBAIRDKQJW3XPKLYOY"},"content":"The Liffey is filthy, but can you imagine if it was clean enough to swim in?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"WT6ZLKUI6ZD2FPEPSYXPEP2GEQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798678},"content":"“The day after the riots, it was really, really quiet in the shop, really quiet on the street. That was definitely a scary day. But after a day or two it recovered,” she remembers. “We had a good December, and we were very relieved that people were seemingly after a short time able to feel good about coming to town again.” The shop wasn’t damaged, but a lot of Books Upstairs customers reached out over social media afterwards to show their concern. “It was slightly reminiscent of the conscientious consumerism that was on display during the pandemic,” says Earls.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CQIYGKYF45AKJKMM3XEGBXN72E","additional_properties":{"_id":"BRFYMTHQEVC5FGO2L7U7F4GBWY"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"SDDPZZDZYREO5JZPOQIID4WY3I","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798679},"content":"Cost of living is a concern for Books Upstairs. “You’re fearful that if the economy takes a turn, that things might fall apart. And I think we felt that way last year too,” says Earls. “We are just trying to make ourselves as viable and sustainable a business as we can.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"53EH56GAFBBAFM7FWTU3F4TQXI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798680},"content":"Earls believes shoppers are not easily scared off from their annual traditions, whether that be a national one like Christmas shopping in Dublin on December 8th or another family tradition. “Despite what happened, I feel like people were quite keen to say ‘we’re still doing our thing – we’re still doing December the way that we do December’,” says Earls, adding: “A bookshop is a lot of people’s happy place.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"CGHUEKBEXRDWXG5IMZGCGY43AE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798681},"content":"One of the shops badly looted on November 23rd, 2023, was the Asics store across the bridge from Books Upstairs on O’Connell Street Lower. Business partners Sunil Shah and Paul Gallagher, who co-own the Asics store and the Skechers franchise in Dublin, were at a black-tie affair that night in London when word began coming through about the riots. The pair immediately changed their flights home.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6BAVCPGFSZCZNNKHJLVSUY642Q","additional_properties":{"_id":"X24PBZPO45C3DIVLCJUUGBKKSI"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"6G6MRYZLWJBTNFXC5L6WSKOO6Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798682},"content":"“We got there midmorning [the next day] and the first thing we said is: these boys are not beating us. We’ll be open in a week,” says Gallagher. “The staff looked at me and said ‘how will we do that?’. I said I don’t know, but we will.” He was true to his word. “There is a certain resilience in Dublin people that is a hallmark of their character,” says Gallagher. “And I admire that. And I said: Dublin people will be back out shopping next week so we want to be here to have a shop for them next week.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2SPFKKZR4RF3LPDNZUSCQCXPMY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798683},"content":"That resilience is evident in the figures – Asics is up 20 per cent year-on-year. Like Nolan at Bike Stop, Gallagher puts this partly down to post-riots publicity, which increased knowledge of the specialist shoe store. He also feels that shoppers sent out a message to the gardaí and the Minister of Justice <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/helen-mcentee/\" target=\"_blank\">Helen McEntee</a> about the rioters: “The people of Dublin do not want to be dictated to by these gurriers.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2PZ6DH7YZNE3TK55QPLFWWT7OA","additional_properties":{"_id":"5Y5YPSMNSFFQVND5OMS2MDWNWY"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"DZ5AXEULNRFYPBFC3GP2BLVPLE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798684},"content":"But Gallagher describes shoplifting occurring regularly on O’Connell Street today. “There’s not enough gardaí on the street,” he says, maintaining that people feel there are “no consequences” if they shoplift or get aggressive with staff. He believes that the Government prioritising “over-the-shop” living would help decrease antisocial behaviour. “I was in Amsterdam last week at a Skechers conference and if you look around, every store has beautiful apartments over it,” he says. “Within a mile of O’Connell Street, 40-50 units could be used for over-the-shop accommodation.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"XVUSM2ZYMJGYDB2Q2QGEOZEZ5Y","additional_properties":{"_id":"JZEOY7XISRGV3FWP2GNMWLKMC4"},"content":"‘She is now in her chrysalis’: Girl injured in Parnell Square attack remains non-verbal but is ‘getting stronger’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"R5RVC2WOO5E6FPATBZ7PXF4KCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798685},"content":"There are several recent or imminent policy changes that retailers feel will affect them, including changes to paid sick leave, the minimum wage increasing to €13.50 from January 1st, and pension auto-enrolment beginning in September 2025. “You can’t put wage increases on businesses where margins are tight and expect everything to come out smelling of roses,” says Gallagher. He’s looking for more Government support for retailers, such as a reduction in the 23 per cent VAT rate. “They need to understand they have all this extra money from Apple, they need to fund businesses,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"53DIAOLDOFCI3BNAFZQ7GYCVIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798686},"content":"Footfall is down in Dublin city by more than 2 per cent to date this year, though it has improved since June, says <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/richard-guiney/\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Guiney</a>, chief executive officer of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dublin-town/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin Town</a>, which aims to promote the city as a retail and hospitality destination. “The feedback we have is the spend per customer isn’t as strong as people would like. So it’s been a bit of a mixed bag, and a lot of traders are feeling under pressure,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CVEG7C4M45AP5APSZFYFLBUNDA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798687},"content":"Dublin Town was worried about retail after the riots, but last December exceeded its expectations. “That was primarily due to a very good Garda presence on the street, a lot of on-street entertainment. People felt good. I think we do need a good Christmas again this year – we would like to see a greater Garda presence,” says Guiney. Dublin Town has made this request to An Garda Síochána and the Government and received “positive feedback”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QUTVRU2PCFB5TBME3E6AXGJKOM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798688},"content":"In a statement to The Irish Times Magazine, An Garda Síochána said that it “is committed to ensuring that people are kept safe” as we approach Christmas. Under what’s called Operation Citizen, it said gardaí across Dublin city continue to conduct high-visibility patrols on foot, bicycle and in Garda vehicles at locations where it’s been identified that antisocial behaviour and public order offences occur. “Enhanced uniformed Garda resources” will also be deployed over the holiday season, it said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H5Z73HAJL5EALL4GNUHE7E4CXA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798689},"content":"“The main core issue is that people don’t feel as safe in Dublin as we would like them to feel,” says Guiney, adding that it’s not just a matter of increasing Garda numbers. “We also need to look at how we assist the more vulnerable members of our society. And the uses of space in Dublin, bringing in new uses, bringing in residential uses, and a holistic approach to planning.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ENPCAVQHYJALXDKR5UN22MS7PY","additional_properties":{"_id":"CDTZAUEZYFDBVIBSN5AUDITXCA"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"ACTPODZWHBF5RIFVGUSPCZQB7A","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798690},"content":"In the aftermath of the Dublin riots, a Dublin City Taskforce was established by the Government to look at the measures required to rejuvenate Dublin city centre, north and south. Guiney believes<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2024/10/22/taskforce-recommends-10-big-moves-to-revitalise-dublin-city-centre/\" target=\"_blank\"> its 10 “big move” recommendations</a> – which includes the deployment of more gardaí – would transform Dublin if implemented.","type":"text"},{"_id":"44J6PU6KSZHRHIZWCE3NN2DLIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798691},"content":"The rioting on November 23rd began on the north side of the city centre. “Being honest, I think the north side for many years hasn’t received the love that it deserves. I think if we can get the north side of the city right it will make a very big difference to the whole of the city,” says Guiney, adding: “I think we can better manage some of the social challenges and our support for vulnerable people.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QUXK4V6EUFDDDNWF26RI5ZANLU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798692},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/temple-bar/\" target=\"_blank\">Temple Bar</a> might be particularly loved by tourists in search of a pint, but it’s also home to many independent retailers. Terence Murphy-Jones runs Big Smoke Vintage and Dublin Vintage Factory with his husband David. On the night of the riots, Big Smoke Vintage in Merchant’s Arch had its windows smashed by rioters. Amid fears of rioting occurring again, Temple Bar’s vintage stores set up a WhatsApp group. “If there are ever problems or if another store runs into something, all of the other stores will be notified,” says Murphy-Jones, who’s been in the vintage business in Dublin for 11 years.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4YSRQISHYBDS5PJWRMTCYCZPJI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798693},"content":"He says things have improved since last November. “You can definitely see people are starting to shop a lot more. Temple Bar has picked back up where it left off.” They were scared, however, that they’d lose customers travelling in from outside of Dublin. “On Saturdays you can see people that we haven’t seen for months. I do think people are putting trust into the city again,” says Murphy-Jones.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F2VV6OR4EVEGDH7WMCTJPUVXN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798694},"content":"But he says that high rents and rates are an issue for retailers. “They’re the things that are making things close around us.” While he says the minimum wage increase is “brilliant for workers”, he adds: “But it’s also really hard for small independent businesses like myself, because we then need to make what we’re paying them. We need to increase our sales.” He calls for the Government to help small businesses manage this with grants or rate cuts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PLSN7DUE3RD75JEE7YRDIPGIVE","additional_properties":{"_id":"XZ2KZT7RP5HCREZMGO4USKTOSA"},"content":"Dublin riots: Gardaí release 99 photographs of ‘persons of interest’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"Q6XLNTOLUBH2TH2QPVTQUUL2GY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798695},"content":"Not too far from Temple Bar is the quirky gift and collectables shop Padison and Yule on College Green. Paddy Curran who runs the shop with his wife Alison. He believes the “vibe is good” in the city. “The city’s going in the right direction,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ISLQ4BHLRNARPC3DVSTNLXZ3OU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798696},"content":"But like others, Curran wants to see a greater Garda presence on the streets. “There should be more horses going up and down, guards on bikes,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RZZERJSCZ5A3JBUOIAATBMSMXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798697},"content":"The cost-of-living crisis has affected people’s ability to spend. “The higher spend isn’t there as much as it used to be,” says Curran. Like other retailers, he feels this could have an impact on Christmas sales. “When they spend, they’ll spend big, but it could be concentrated,” predicts Curran. “The concentration might be down to four or five weeks of high spend, rather than six or eight weeks.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TNLGTQBU7NBVXPCVQCI6ZNTURE","additional_properties":{"_id":"N762ZMCEFVHIXNM6BPZRFKISRM"},"content":"Urban Ireland: Architects and experts tell us how to stop the decline of Dublin and other Irish city centres","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"CG5PMWBBCZH2ZIVXLC34URB64M","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798698},"content":"Curran also feels there’s not enough differentiation between large retail giants, who might find it easier to absorb the 23% VAT rate, and smaller independent businesses. “And when you’re a small business, that couple of per cent makes a huge difference.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"NOPG37QBGFGZPPMIPIERNSEMZA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798699},"content":"A year on from the Dublin riots, the city still bears scars. But retailers are determined to keep going despite facing growing economic challenges. And even with the calls for more gardaí amid safety fears, the public are showing they want to spend time in the city centre. Research by Dublin Town shows a desire among people “to reclaim their city”, says Guiney.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JP6ZKCX7PRE7DLQ7RRFPYCJGOY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731493798700},"content":"Indeed, a recent event organised by Dublin Town, called Dublin by Night, saw almost 40,000 people enjoying two nights of free outdoor events on both sides of the Liffey. “The atmosphere was terrific – it shows what we can do,” says Guiney.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z76QU76K2JCVNDTRJVI3RZASYI","additional_properties":{"_id":"6L7EMHP6NJD3PHIZUE27J7D4UQ"},"embed":{"config":{},"id":"acast_podcast-69685","url":"/"},"subtype":"acast_podcast","type":"custom_embed"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Aoife Barry"}]},"description":{"basic":"As retailers gear up for a busy Christmas season, there are signs people are putting their trust back in the city"},"display_date":"2024-11-23T05:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"The Dublin riots, one year on: ‘I know what happened doesn’t represent Irish people’","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"MHRP765SYRCWLPUB2PL7636C4M","auth":{"1":"13699ada2f71e00327611e386a69e840efb1969acaabceb619e91c5dc94c68a6"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/MHRP765SYRCWLPUB2PL7636C4M.jpg"}},"subtype":"showcase","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"People"},{"name":"Ireland"},{"name":"Dublin"},{"name":"Life & Style"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/life-style/people/2024/11/23/the-dublin-riots-one-year-on-the-city-centre-is-coming-back-to-itself/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/life-style/people","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"People"}}}},{"_id":"NBUTDA6BFBD45ICQ2ID37LJW24","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":376,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/a7b98f1f-a8a0-4530-9174-9717e0271b36/versions/1732274097/media/6da3903e06161582e260fb01f558fbe6_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/ireland/dublin/2024/11/23/dublin-riots-one-year-on-north-inner-city-youth-traumatised-by-the-stigma-of-violence/","content_elements":[{"_id":"4ISTEFB35VA43FFEGNIA6FK55A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635412},"content":"A year on from the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dublin-riots/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin riots</a>, young residents of the north inner city still feel “unfairly blamed” and hurt by how their community was stigmatised afterwards.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4F46BOQSZRCHZG76VNSCS7U77Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635413},"content":"They are “annoyed”, feel nothing has improved and are “fearful” of similar clashes in future. Youth workers say many young people remain traumatised 12 months later.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NCVPULDNONEHVDJM57B4PNNDQ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635414},"content":"The Dublin riots broke out on November 23rd, 2023, following the stabbing of three children and a care worker outside a primary school on Parnell Square.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VXHHKAHA7FF2LBY6N7PDEKISWY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635415},"content":"In December <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2024/02/22/parnell-square-stabbing-accused-sent-forward-for-trial-to-central-criminal-court/\" target=\"_blank\">Riad Bouchaker</a>, an Irish citizen and Algerian national, of no fixed abode, was charged with attempted murder.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YFMXD3JKHBED5CU5HIOG32NPNE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635416},"content":"There have been multiple arrests and convictions in the year since then over the public disorder in the hours after the attack.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EQ6JMWHKGREUBFHZN4ID465QMQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635417},"content":"On Thursday, Declan Donaghey (28) of Williams Place Upper, Dorset Street, pleaded guilty to arson, violent disorder and criminal damage during the riots and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2024/11/20/man-who-set-fire-to-garda-patrol-car-in-dublin-riots-is-jailed-for-6-years/\" target=\"_blank\">was jailed</a> for 6½ years.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BHCADMYTVBD2VIIH4DEVDGYZB4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635418},"content":"“I do think he got too long,” says Sean (20) who does not want to give his full name, as he walks along Gardiner Street in Dublin this week. He believes they “just had to make an example out of him”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G7WM3KFUORCXJOQMQFMPEFVKY4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635419},"content":"He feels young people in the area were “big time” blamed for the riots. He didn’t get involved. “I used my brain, but I can see the way people were; they were frustrated and got involved,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J7RJ7G3BAVBUTOXEXGKUMST5CA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635420},"content":"A teenage girl on Sean McDermott Street, when asked how she feels ahead of the anniversary of the riots, says: “Everyone is kind of on edge, fearful it’s going to happen again.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MP6JSBK5QLKISVSTLPKPQJQOFE","additional_properties":{"_id":"SUGM5U546NHXPBZXPZLOE42VUI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"4YYPFOQGCVFOJCNJUZVJUEJEFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635422},"content":"Luke Fay (21) from Sheriff Street, who is a history and philosophy student at Trinity College Dublin, says: “Just because the area is seen as a bad area doesn’t mean people coming from there are bad.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J5F24O3C5NFWFNB27DLSAWFJM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635423},"content":"“When people are given opportunities and chances, they will take them. I am a testament to that,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FE3IZ4XISFATPLJDO65T5DQWM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635424},"content":"His family has lived in the north inner city for generations. His father, Mark Fay, runs a local shop with his grandfather Gerry – both well-known and respected community activists. Luke too is active, advocating for young people and sitting on the boards of the North Inner City Community Coalition and the North Wall Women’s Centre.","type":"text"},{"_id":"URLQQ72GBFE7RA5DUGFQ5EFFHU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635425},"content":"He was at home when the riots erupted getting texts from friends “caught up in it” and “desperate to get out”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3AMOSVMIINFSNHPW6TKNUUFCBE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635426},"content":"Local youth workers Dean Murray and Jonathan Dowling, who is also a criminologist, say anger had been festering in the community since Covid lockdowns, which had a more adverse impact on overcrowded, poorer homes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GRZDGK7BZZCXLFTLKKONDRWYDI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635427},"content":"“We are going to be cleaning up the impact of Covid on young people in disadvantaged areas for many years,” says Dowling.","type":"text"},{"_id":"POUWB4HEUNC2VLDJC5WLOIGPBA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635428},"content":"The return to post-Covid normality coincided with a sharp rise in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/immigration/\" target=\"_blank\">immigration</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SFAXLP7XTJFNHFGGM7Q4AADIXQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635429},"content":"“There was a lot of anger building in the community, a lot of protests in the area – in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2022/12/03/in-east-wall-a-struggle-to-control-the-narrative-over-asylum-seeker-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">East Wall</a>, on Talbot Street. People’s genuine fears were stoked by people who had far-right agendas,” says Murray.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3KKSQDQERFEYZFJPG4AVKSB3EU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635430},"content":"Dowling “panicked” when news of the stabbings broke. “I knew this was going to explode,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VUTPYQCWPVDTPFZWTNWQAJRGZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635431},"content":"In the immediate aftermath “a lot of kids were quite fearful”, says Dowling, “coming out of school with fear: ‘What if someone comes to my school with a knife?’”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EZL5XUZTXFAA3NEIEG4G663VTY","additional_properties":{"_id":"T5K6UMGTGVGLPCG2NHWBM3DASU"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"5BEKFGHQRBB4LLUPN74IUBX5DA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635433},"content":"Children of colour feared being attacked. Schools and clubs saw a drop in attendance in the days afterwards.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RYQDDGVFUZF65PSBHGHLXEJLUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635434},"content":"Many of Fay’s peers were “shook up that this could be allowed to happen, and worried for the future”. They then felt their community was blamed, he adds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GMUXURSPGFELRFMCOJO5WV2DXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635435},"content":"Minister for Justice Helen McEntee described those involved in the riots as “<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/12/08/justine-mccarthy-politicians-throwing-around-terms-like-scumbags-and-thugs-is-a-slippery-slope/\" target=\"_blank\">scumbags</a>”. Politicians described their horror at the violence but offered little comfort to those most affected, says Fay.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IHM76TBAVRF3XPJFTSWL5Z543U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635436},"content":"“The impact of the riots, especially on my community, was like a slap in the face,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X3CP347EEFEE7BSZYGYXX3LU7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635439},"content":"The area is one of sharp economic contrasts. The Irish Financial Services Centre area is classified by independent agency Pobal as “very affluent”, while adjacent homes around Sheriff Street, Oriel Street and Summerhill Parade are “very disadvantaged”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"546IMRVHFFBRHPKPOTQTM7XL3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635440},"content":"“It feels like the community is crying out for very small things that would make a huge difference but always it’s only the bare minimum that is done,” says Fay.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JD6D6DAPUNHOFFIZWAPCANSW2Y","additional_properties":{"_id":"XX7C2FQW4VFXZODNSM4O2ZRZVM"},"content":"Election 2024: Elderly in Dublin’s north inner city say they are unconvinced by politicians","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"YV636VARHBHC5D33ZPVGYLJSIE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635442},"content":"He believes a portion of Dublin City Council’s €35 million budget for a <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2024/11/17/it-will-rejuvenate-our-great-city-ambitious-plans-for-dublin-lido-move-a-step-closer/\" target=\"_blank\">swimming pool</a> on George’s Dock would have “a bigger, better impact” tackling antisocial behaviour than employing a hundred extra gardaí.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DVLLK4IQBBDS7AC6TM25WBYQTA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635443},"content":"“We know what the problems are and how to solve them,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SO7UCK4QJNEEBG2EWLZRCC625Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635444},"content":"Fay knows people his age or younger, sleeping rough and selling drugs – “kids who have trauma”. He says there are supports in our area that would help them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PA5CJ6JELVFHHB6VFN5GBDRML4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635445},"content":"“But just not enough,” he says. “The services that could save them are crying out for funding. That’s State neglect.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"SLOU5GRRIJGNVGQTWHXYL6G52I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635446},"content":"Dowling says well-funded youth services are “crucial” where parents haven’t the capacity to mitigate the impact of poverty.","type":"text"},{"_id":"52B4ZAZ6BJA3JE2ESBXQCAWNRU","additional_properties":{"_id":"N6MWVZYI2RG2VN6FLKSFJ3EPU4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"LBR366R37FD63LCRVIG4RFWGIM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635448},"content":"Both he and Murray grew up in the area and “were born into social deficit but were lucky enough that our parents and peers were able to wrap around us and support us”, says Dowling.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AWDLNKRAW5GXDOQFOO5S63SLMQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635449},"content":"“I don’t believe anyone is born wanting to do something wrong. 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The scheme was one of five PPP deals between the council and Mr McNamara that collapsed in 2008, leaving large flat complexes including O’Devaney Gardens derelict, and buildings such as the laundry unused.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YYDPX62OTRF6FAAUA7MWYIBS7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1731689475555},"content":"In 2018 the council was offered €14.5 million from international hotel group Toyoko Inn for the laundry site. The no-frills chain wanted to build a 350-bed hotel, student accommodation and shops. The proposal also included 60 apartments for social housing, likely to be used for senior citizens, as well as a memorial to the women who were incarcerated in the laundry.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S4MW6Y4SHZBBZN4H7ADFSUHAXU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731689475556},"content":"The sale of the laundry had been recommended by the 2017 Mulvey report on the regeneration of the north inner city so the proceeds could be used to fund the economic and social measures. However, councillors voted against the sale for the hotel proposal in late 2018 to facilitate talks on an alternative use for the site.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3XTPLYEQEVCW5IH77B33REOOBY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731689475557},"content":"Councillors subsequently agreed it should be developed as a “multipurpose site of conscience” that would “seek to honour and commemorate the victims and survivors of Ireland’s institutional past”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCDY6C2IB5FUNMX3YVDX7FFP3I","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Olivia Kelly"}},"name":"Olivia Kelly"}]},"description":{"basic":"Seán McDermott Street institution to become national memorial and research centre, alongside social housing"},"display_date":"2024-11-17T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Plans lodged for redevelopment of last Magdalene laundry ","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"JRQ25JXJNNBCJH7W5J4J5ICY7M","auth":{"1":"ce721854a88b131c2175e0735613383198875a50b6f78c0bb4591cb615238f2c"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/JRQ25JXJNNBCJH7W5J4J5ICY7M.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Dublin"},{"name":"Ireland"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/ireland/dublin/2024/11/17/plans-lodged-for-redevelopment-of-last-magdalene-laundry/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/ireland/dublin","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Dublin"}}}},{"_id":"4OCUDLNFG5HTBGJ345DHXBDDYA","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":620,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/1b290e58-981c-4a9c-8a9c-36d3fc276627/versions/1731504036/media/786b76ceeb8c588ee2af59a13bbf0d1e_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/life-style/people/2024/11/17/it-will-rejuvenate-our-great-city-ambitious-plans-for-dublin-lido-move-a-step-closer/","content_elements":[{"_id":"7UVTIY2D65G27ODTT5TC2OOBPE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069412},"content":"Driven by a grassroots initiative, Dublin is taking the next step towards having a <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/swimming\" target=\"_blank\">public lido</a> in the heart of the city – with the hope of following many European cities where such community facilities are a matter of course.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SGJC4RFBZRD7ZKOUODO2GV4KDA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069413},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.dublincitylido.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin City Lido campaign</a>, which emerged following <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/white-water-rafting-in-dublin-city-centre-1.4461468\" target=\"_blank\">a letter to The Irish Times</a>, has completed its latest design and conceptual images for a public outdoor swimming pool (lido) at George’s Dock. Its case is bolstered by a feasibility study demonstrating the ambitious proposal is possible – and follows extensive consultation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F5NCPYWYL5FCHOW4KLGUSU2M3M","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069414},"content":"Created in partnership with acclaimed outdoor swimming architect Chris Romer-Lee of Studio Octopi in London and funded through an ongoing <a href=\"https://gofund.me/27103154\" target=\"_blank\">GoFundMe campaign</a> that has raised more than €11,000 of its €20,000 costs, the images “confirm the genuine opportunity that exists for the people of Dublin and beyond to enjoy a state-of-the-art heated outdoor swimming facility”, according to campaign founder Patrick Earls.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VWZ346RHCVGUBE2S3MYRG3IV4A","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069415},"content":"Updated designs include an accessible 50m all-season heated pool; a smaller learning pool; sauna and plunge pool; changing facilities; water gardens with public seating; restored dock walls; community function room; a cafe and viewing gallery. Conceptual images have been updated to take into account feedback from Dublin city councillors; <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dublin-city-council\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin City Council</a> (DCC) executive and the local community, he adds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NYQUSDXWBBCWVHAOQN7GYL3UVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069416},"content":"“These images communicate the enormous benefit a lido would bring to people in Dublin including long-established local communities, residents throughout the city, and visitors to the capital,” Earls says. “A heated outdoor pool would ensure year-round access for all types of swimmers, providing our city with an inclusive and unique facility.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MW7GP4OMRBGFLLAN4P4UZCJ5DA","additional_properties":{"_id":"OGA3USWMJFBCLKZXVV2NUY7WFA"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"NQTBZL7C4BHVTIP7PAUPAIMETY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069417},"content":"In July 2022 DCC announced plans for a public pool or lido and an emergency services training centre at the site, instead of the previously planned white-water rafting scheme, which became controversial – especially over escalating costs – and was refused funding by the Government.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J3DT35M3IFC6RBHFMZCWNPEHMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069418},"content":"It was envisaged these revised plans, estimated to cost at least €25 million, would result in 60 per cent of the site devoted to public pools and 40 per cent for a “swift water training facility” for <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dublin-fire-brigade\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin Fire Brigade</a>. However, the plans have yet to progress.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6OCWJP4IGFBFBKTCPXGGRQJINU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731830588097},"content":"The campaign group based in the docklands is seeking to remove the training facility from the plans so the site can be used entirely as a public lido.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WVR6R5GLVNGTHKLEEWKXFD74CA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069419},"content":"Earls wrote to The Irish Times in January 2021 as “Dublin City Council’s harebrained white-water rafting centre” was being progressed and entering tendering phase.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4QKOOU2EIFEOVFH3NMY43IJK6E","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069420},"content":"He hoped for an amenity to benefit ordinary Dubliners: “I’m not opposed to Ireland expanding its grossly deficient sporting infrastructure. But it strikes me that a 19th-century maritime dock calls out for a historically sensitive, people-friendly development.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3FM6M7WDSRHMFOM2YF3KCLEMRM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069421},"content":"Asking if it was another example of the living city being sacrificed for tourism interests, he suggested an outdoor swimming pool facility combined with parkland at the site north of the Liffey.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CH335CTC2JGNJOK35O4P4HSI3I","additional_properties":{"_id":"PIF2XBBY5NHNRLCSGCELKGIAPQ"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"FSJKXLUJBBAVHBB3BUWGIQD5ZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069422},"content":"Having returned from London, he says he wished to see Dublin enhanced by a citizen-friendly option. He with friends started a petition, knowing what is available in London, Scandinavia and Germany. Their petition was quickly supported by 5,000 people. “The idea chugged along since, but there is a serious proposal now on board. We’re getting closer to it being realised.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ENLE5EUSPJDPFF46FSAOABGZOA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069423},"content":"Their study concludes an outdoor swimming facility of a specific scale would be viable from a design and economic perspective. The engineering firm Civic, enthused by the potential of the municipal proposal, provided expertise on a pro-bono basis.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PTFQAFY5LNGQZBTOPM6OBVYWLQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069424},"content":"“These images reflect an optimal design informed by a feasibility study we have been undertaking for the past 18 months,” Earls adds. “Having examined all possible uses for the site, a medium-sized inclusive lido combining swimming pools, green space and community facilities offer the most value for the public.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"AZSLOG76JZG55GIEGX3C2Y2XRQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069425},"content":"Romer-Lee says he is very happy with the latest design which proved to be an amazing project to work on and hopes it will catch the eye and ensure debate is “angled in the right direction”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HCAVUNDVHZAXFMW2KNCIHHYNNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069426},"content":"The George’s Dock site is unique, he adds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DZ6KATHD4ZEKHJXMQD4LUIWOQA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069427},"content":"Extensive planting will shroud the pool and ensure privacy while the public water garden will be at the southern end. “We are trying to appeal to everybody – swimmer or not. It’s a new blue and green place for the city centre that reduces the impact of glass, steel and cement.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"RSNOXXBQFJADDBJ4YOFDG5WKTI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069428},"content":"He specialises in water-based projects, particularly community outdoor lidos and set up the <a href=\"https://www.futurelidos.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Future Lidos campaign group</a>, which shares knowledge and resources and is involved in 40 campaigns throughout the UK and Ireland – including a floating lido on the Thames and restoring an art deco tidal pool in Scotland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NDGRPWFWFVEAPAAHZLWXQSXTHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069429},"content":"Earls says its proposals also promote mental and physical health benefits for all users, swimming and water safety for children and adults, and accessible green space and seating for non-swimmers. The pool will be heated sustainably with ground- and air-sourced heat pumps.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OZH77VYDMRFJFFPQQ3FZC5SHW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069430},"content":"The campaign plans to present its feasibility study to the DCC executive and city councillors early in 2025, with the ultimate aim of DCC – which owns the site – starting preliminary work to advance the development. The group is calling for DCC to build on voluntary work done to date and commit to funding “a further public-coded feasibility study from the current capital budget”. They have been encouraged by useful informal discussions with DCC and councillors.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R3BHZNHBIVHUXGB4ZITIGV6ZME","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069431},"content":"The lido has secured backing from the national governing body of swimming, <a href=\"https://swimireland.ie/\" target=\"_blank\">Swim Ireland</a>, which has partnered with Dublin City Lido to provide support and to advance the campaign in alignment with its national swimming strategy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q5C6AOFDHJDOFKMLNLJIDCYHIQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"3S4EOVGYMJCVTALQ6XL5GBHSIU"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"AV7NZMETUZCQXOTPTK2QMUXPZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069432},"content":"While recognising many differing infrastructure demands on DCC, “we believe there is a strong case for an outdoor lido in Dublin city,” says Sarah Keane, Swim Ireland’s chief executive. “We recognise DCC’s existing commitment to sporting infrastructure and indeed swimming pools ... we would urge them to support the call by the Dublin City Lido campaign for a feasibility study to consider the practical aspects of a lido in Dublin and to support reasoned decision making.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"IQJSTGFDDRFLLDRKKHBBBP7YSE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069433},"content":"Dublin is lagging behind other European cities of comparative size and density in the provision of municipal outdoor swimming facilities. Cities such as Helsinki and Copenhagen operate a minimum of three lidos. “Dublin is falling behind even smaller cities, from Bristol to Amsterdam, which have one and seven lidos respectively, despite lower population density,” Earls says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FW7MB7YETRFFHNX7EV6HBL2RWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069434},"content":"“Other liveable, modern and ambitious cities offer recreational and sporting facilities of this nature. For a metropolitan city of our size we would expect to have at least one outdoor public swimming pool in Dublin. We believe it’s not a case of if, but when Dublin is brought in line with other global cities in the provision of these public amenities,” adds campaign director Sarah Walker.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IWG2EUZUJJDCFJXKD3Y62JRUDM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069435},"content":"“The project already aligns with widespread national and EU policy and we would expect to see the Department of Sport, and local Government and TDs respond to the importance of the project by assisting in securing funding. We hope George’s Dock will be the first lido but do not expect it to be the only one in our city in the next 10 years.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"GFGP2A5DXRANPER5ZSZ6BAPJEU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069436},"content":"The new designs follow the recent <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/10/22/back-to-the-future-with-the-dublin-city-taskforce-report/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin City Taskforce report</a>, published amid debate about challenges facing Dublin’s inner city and decline in social cohesion. The campaign has consulted extensively with local community and sports groups. Feedback has been positive with recognition that an inclusive facility could provide a vital piece of social infrastructure helping to regenerate the inner city.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F4X4GZFT7RGAVCQDKDPI3WWWQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069437},"content":"“These challenges facing the north inner city are complex and multifaceted,” Walker says. “However, we believe development of a well-operated and inclusive lido would have positive social effects helping to rejuvenate our great city. It could empower local communities, attract more Dubliners to the city centre and make inner city living even more appealing.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7JRYMDI7MBGJFLCO2ZXPNBFLU4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069438},"content":"This view is echoed by taskforce chairman David McRedmond, chief executive of An Post: “[Our] recommendations focused on offering Dubliners compelling reasons to live in and visit the city centre, and the lido is a great example of an ambitious amenity that will address dereliction and create an appealing, accessible and positive space for all Dubliners. While the taskforce report was focused on broader elemental actions, I am excited by the lido proposal which deserves very serious consideration.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2C4O5I2RW5CMTE32VYHOEZCU3I","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069439},"content":"Dublin City Lido has identified the best operational model to ensure a high-standard public facility where affordable access is guaranteed. It says the facility should be run by an expert not-for-profit operator on behalf of DCC, which should retain ownership of the facility. This model is successfully deployed at other Dublin facilities such as Sean McDermott Street Swimming Pool and Swan Leisure Pools in Rathmines and Crumlin. Experienced operators have expressed interest in running the lido, Earls says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U2BSHABGNNCHDKV2BKA3VA4ZKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731485069440},"content":"Romer-Lee confirms its design has been costed but, conscious of the site’s recent history, the figures will be provided to DCC first. It will be comparable to any other leisure facility or public building such as a library. “We will not break boundaries in terms of cost.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCDY6C2IB5FUNMX3YVDX7FFP3I","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Kevin O'Sullivan"}},"name":"Kevin O'Sullivan"}]},"description":{"basic":"Dublin City Lido campaign has updated it designs to include heated pool, learning pool, sauna and plunge pool, as well as water gardens and cafe"},"display_date":"2024-11-17T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"‘We’re getting closer to it being realised’: Ambitious plans for Dublin lido gather momentum","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"NOB22QWUHZDL7BPRT7VUWV4P6Y","auth":{"1":"f8c31a51211b124a4d1cf3be13ffeb55188a3849eb2e1198626ab122bd5f346d"},"focal_point":{"x":1325,"y":1075},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/NOB22QWUHZDL7BPRT7VUWV4P6Y.jpg"}},"subtype":"feature","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"People"},{"name":"Ireland"},{"name":"Dublin"},{"name":"Life & Style"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/life-style/people/2024/11/17/it-will-rejuvenate-our-great-city-ambitious-plans-for-dublin-lido-move-a-step-closer/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/life-style/people","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"People"}}}},{"_id":"G4XKJMLVF5C2BHUSRB7TICPVZ4","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":269,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/75fc6a10-31e1-4f63-82cf-eef1c4874a13/versions/1731607996/media/26cc181add40288b78ceec8f4f94dd0e_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/ireland/housing-planning/2024/11/15/cost-rental-apartments-at-odevaney-gardens-priced-at-almost-1900-per-month/","content_elements":[{"_id":"5FU7LL3AURFWPL5QRN4DNEQJLE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731605148728},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/renting/\" target=\"_blank\">Rents</a> of almost €1,900 a month will be charged for some of the first cost-rental apartments at O’Devaney Gardens in Dublin city, making them the most expensive homes yet provided under the State-subsidised scheme.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SJP6THBQENAFHJ7BJSZVWZ7TOM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731605148730},"content":"Figures show rents of €1,490 for a one-bedroom apartment, €1,695 for a two-bed and €1,895 for a three-bed have been agreed for the first 75 cost-rental apartments in the vast complex of more than 1,000 homes, which are being constructed in blocks of up to 14 storeys.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4GYFATWZR5FNPCAZANIXFQNZPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731605148731},"content":"The setting of rents follows several years of negotiations between <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dublin-city-council\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin City Council</a> and developer Bartra on the purchase of a portion of the homes for the cost-rental scheme, which offers State-subsidised rents to low- and middle-income workers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DBCXZLFWKJD2BGV3J7NMGUJ44Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1731605148732},"content":"City councillors five years ago voted in favour of a contentious deal with Bartra for the sale of the 14-acre site of the former 1950s flats complex off the North Circular Road.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V23NBFCNGBDPVI2QEOTCDYBXJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731612840712},"content":"Under the deal, 30 per cent of the homes were to be reserved for social housing and 20 per cent for affordable purchase; the remaining 50 per cent were available to Bartra to sell privately.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B7HMM3R4TRBUFI7L6T2PJGP5CI","additional_properties":{"_id":"WIHWRK46KNE37C3MGPK3SZPAHI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"AWNLXHEHYFGRDN6NJOCAUQ3YLU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731605148733},"content":"However, to secure the agreement of councillors, Bartra offered a portion of these private apartments to the council or a nominated housing body for a cost-rental scheme. A total of 264 homes are to be used for cost rental and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/tuath-housing\" target=\"_blank\">Tuath Housing</a> has been selected by the council to manage the first 75 of these, which are due to be available in 2026.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BVNX3OHE7VCPNP4XXDJ2CWIX6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1731605148735},"content":"Under the cost-rental scheme, rents are based on the cost of building, managing and maintaining the properties. A spokeswoman for Tuath said the rents agreed for the first 75 apartments were “more than 30 per cent below the current market rates for the area”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HARLU77XINCTTDWLRVL3J7UNAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731605148736},"content":"However, Sinn Féin housing spokesman <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/eoin-o-broin\" target=\"_blank\">Eoin Ó Broin</a> said while the rents were lower than those charged for new tenancies, they were higher than existing tenancies in the surrounding area. “These are rents which are not affordable for the overwhelming majority of people who would be eligible for cost-rental housing.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"C7FGOYFNIVGTJMBEUQYREXQDT4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731605148738},"content":"The cost-rental system is designed for workers who earn too much to qualify for social housing but cannot afford private market rents. However, under the terms of the scheme, applicants cannot spend more than one-third of their income on rent, which would exclude many potential applicants for O’Devaney Gardens, Mr Ó Broin said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KTPP2VKELNFL7F3DO45GHL2E5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1731605148740},"content":"“This exposes the folly of gifting this land to Bartra. This site should only ever have been developed by Dublin City Council for public housing. Leaving aside the frightening figure of €1,895, no one looking at these figures could say almost €1,500 for a one-bed is affordable.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QX6OA7OXPNEQVDETO7RPXN3CFY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731605148741},"content":"Agreement is also understood to have been reached for the cost-rental homes at Oscar Traynor Woods in Coolock, where 340 homes will be available for cost-rental tenants. Prices are lower for this Glenveagh-built development, with one-beds expected to cost €1,183, two-beds €1,577, and three-beds €1,742. The scheme will be managed by <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/cluid-housing\" target=\"_blank\">Clúid Housing</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"43K5HHROFFF4FNGGWCQMJB6K74","additional_properties":{"_id":1731605148742},"content":"The first 16 affordable purchase homes at Oscar Traynor Woods, which are also State subsidised, were sold in recent months <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2024/06/25/dublin-city-affordable-homes-in-coolock-priced-at-up-to-475000/\" target=\"_blank\">with prices ranging from €254,358 to €475,000</a>, with the higher-end prices drawing considerable criticism over the summer months.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WAOU4DSF5RBRHLIKHLD3UEQMKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731605148743},"content":"While the prices for the O’Devaney Gardens affordable purchase scheme have yet to be set, the higher rental prices indicate they are likely to exceed those at Oscar Traynor Woods.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FJCJN6R35RH3ZPRX2NZRKQ3MDY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731605148744},"content":"Bartra said it had “no role in the process” of setting cost-rental levels. A Glenveagh spokesman said the company’s revenues from Oscar Traynor Woods were fixed and “there is no mechanism for Glenveagh to amend or increase its pricing”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3VLNQ7OOVNCYNNRNLQYODNRVMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731605148745},"content":"The council said cost-rental prices would be a “minimum of 25 per cent below comparable market rents in the area”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCDY6C2IB5FUNMX3YVDX7FFP3I","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Olivia Kelly"}},"name":"Olivia Kelly"}]},"description":{"basic":"Cost-rental maximum of €1,895 for O’Devaney Gardens and €1,742 for Oscar Traynor Woods"},"display_date":"2024-11-15T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Cost-rental apartments at O’Devaney Gardens priced at almost €1,900 per month","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"MLHM2IPBVTEBWPMZM2HNWKB3FI","auth":{"1":"64944f9d396bc01b140764532a27a11a5bc4c8898e5f1ac4cebe073fa00a4eba"},"focal_point":{"x":744,"y":420},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/MLHM2IPBVTEBWPMZM2HNWKB3FI.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Housing & Planning"},{"name":"Dublin"},{"name":"Ireland"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/ireland/housing-planning/2024/11/15/cost-rental-apartments-at-odevaney-gardens-priced-at-almost-1900-per-month/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/ireland/housing-planning","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Housing & Planning"}}}},{"_id":"MBBSLDGAMVEYLCVYTOUJW3BRNI","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":198,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/532e9da4-2cfe-4f58-83d6-384014b10347/versions/1731617920/media/9968add373d563179a0480618c1333b6_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/ireland/dublin/2024/11/14/dublin-christmas-lights-switch-on-as-traders-nervously-optimistic-about-business/","content_elements":[{"_id":"VWZ5GG3FENFHTHS6PZMWXVEUCI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731598398132},"content":"It’s beginning to look a lot like <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/christmas/\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas</a> with towns and cities across the country starting to light up.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4RQY6NGP35AZLFETIXT26ZK5PE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601583018},"content":"While the sound of sleigh bells are still some way off, the ringing of cash registers is growing louder with retailers nervously optimistic about what lies ahead.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QWV2U6G2QZB4ZDMIPKN7S7MDUQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731598398133},"content":"The Christmas lights on <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/grafton-street/\" target=\"_blank\">Grafton Street</a> in Dublin were turned on by children from Little Blue Heroes Foundation, a <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/garda-siochana/\" target=\"_blank\">Garda</a> charity supporting families of children with serious illnesses, on Thursday evening, with a total of 25 other streets across the city following its lead courtesy of business group Dublin Town.","type":"text"},{"_id":"24JARNBVZFG5ZDJNBS24OAHD4Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1731598398134},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/richard-guiney/\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Guiney</a>, the group’s chief executive, said retailers he had spoken to, particularly those north of the Liffey, were “nervous” about trading with footfall down slightly on this time last year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HTXMMEFL4FGEDF6UHE3BAW4HIY","additional_properties":{"_id":"5T5FWLB4W5D7FNW4SRINMADDXI"},"content":"Primark expecting a good Christmas, says parent’s boss","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"Q4HGWUCALNE2HFVLTH7ULNSUCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731598398135},"content":"However, he said while some retailers remained “concerned” about the impact of traffic management changes implemented in September restricting the flow of cars through the city, others were upbeat about the prospect of footfall increasing over the coming weeks.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UM673BTWTNEKFCGKFFXUNDS74E","additional_properties":{"_id":1731598398136},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"BMLRQLLTG5FENJSBV5BHIDX3GI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601583023},"content":"Mr Guiney said “it hasn’t been a great year” to date but “fortunes can be turned around”. He recalled the concerns expressed for trade after rioting in the city centre on November 23rd last, but said “footfall was actually up in December and trade exceeded expectations” afterwards.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YJ7VLB3MHJGRZFIHYWM75TPOWM","additional_properties":{"_id":"LMHE2IS6KNFAZCZ33LHWPBAFHM"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"XQLBEFBR2VGTPMFXNAND3LWFZI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731598398138},"content":"This is the 16th year Dublin Town has illuminated the city and Mr Guiney said the Christmas lights “are by far the biggest task we undertake for our business members and people of the city, and beyond, each year”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SU5ZXUCHMBHIDPJV7SB4B3SSTA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731598398139},"content":"All told, he said, it takes 30 people, working through the night over four weeks, to erect the lights. “Every single bulb and fixture is tested by Dublin Town’s lighting contractor in advance of going up.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2GVZDMRX6NDD3KMBCJNR4RLA6M","additional_properties":{"_id":"JZZLQ2U62BAJFFHIDTN2IPASYA"},"content":"Conor Pope calculates Christmas will cost a family of five €2,373. 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While the retailer’s window display centres around the 12 days of Christmas, its Christmas shop has been open for almost 100 days already with the first decorations of the year sold last August.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XFBJLVNX4VH6ZFCNHSME775MU4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731598398146},"content":"“Our Christmas shop has been really successful this year,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X2AEFIK7Z5DA7OPAWWDJVVPM2Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1731598398147},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"W3AOHJXX35BMVF3L6X7KGYNS24","additional_properties":{"_id":1731598398148},"content":"He said the luxury market in Ireland “is outperforming the international market at the moment and we’re quite confident that we’re going to see a lot of customers coming into our two Dublin stores in particular”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCDY6C2IB5FUNMX3YVDX7FFP3I","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Conor Pope"}},"name":"Conor Pope"}]},"description":{"basic":"Grafton Street set for festive season as children from Little Blue Heroes Foundation launch illuminations in city"},"display_date":"2024-11-14T20:53:33.789Z","headlines":{"basic":"Dublin Christmas lights switch on as traders nervously optimistic about business","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"OFCT5MR6OVFA3N2VY6W33QH3TQ","auth":{"1":"c04f0ad7f109ec20b88cadea85428d8e6c347b16d6c9c96c35a1f5221d667dba"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/OFCT5MR6OVFA3N2VY6W33QH3TQ.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Dublin"},{"name":"Ireland"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/ireland/dublin/2024/11/14/dublin-christmas-lights-switch-on-as-traders-nervously-optimistic-about-business/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/ireland/dublin","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Dublin"}}}},{"_id":"4R3ET4N635AZVFU4QFMV2XOJIQ","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":149,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/f89e0526-a646-4153-8033-271eebb94ea1/versions/1731599395/media/6a1870cef9042011a2339048ae61776b_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/transport/2024/11/14/new-busconnects-routes-pushed-back-until-january-due-to-risk-of-christmas-confusion/","content_elements":[{"_id":"F4CSXGP4QFBUFIHK334ZRLCM5Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1731595716885},"content":"New <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/busconnects\" target=\"_blank\">BusConnects</a> services which were due to come into effect in December have been deferred until January, the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/national-transport-authority/\" target=\"_blank\">National Transport Authority</a> (NTA) has announced.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UCIROWOBR5FILNOU4IQOPFMLTQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731595716887},"content":"The NTA said introducing the changes in the run up to Christmas may have caused confusion among <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/public-transport/\" target=\"_blank\">bus passengers</a>. 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He also mentioned efforts to make the city free from illegal dumping and to establish whether the city should take over the waste collection service and run it as it did in the past.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NBBZKEGRNNEHTFI5JKK2CFQAMQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731357770832},"content":"Cllr Cian Farrell (Social Democrats) said the plan “provides an opportunity to negotiate an equitable and sustainable funding agreement for Dublin, not just on this implementation this plan, but a permanent, long term funding for the city”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"47TTSQZL7RCHXG3YBKN3CFH4YQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731357770833},"content":"Cllr Janice Boylan (Sinn Féin) asked whether the money was “100 per cent going to be funded through Government”. She accused previous governments of “allowing the city centre and Dublin to become rundown, unsafe, and that is very, very clear in this report”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3YHO3KVYXZANFN3JJTB57NODPQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731357770834},"content":"Cllr Janet Horner (Green Party) said “the city council has to be the leader on this, we cannot implement another top-down structure to decide what is best for Dubliners.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCDY6C2IB5FUNMX3YVDX7FFP3I","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Tim O'Brien"}},"name":"Tim O'Brien"}]},"description":{"basic":"Meeting hears calls for implementation of planned improvements to be led by Dublin City Council"},"display_date":"2024-11-11T23:43:22.692Z","headlines":{"basic":"Councillors say Dublin revitalisation plan hinges on formal commitment of €1bn funding","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"KQJSZIZQNJFZNDHPOYQYBLPFCQ","auth":{"1":"a8befbfdf066e52c9341c909ad48c2b09022abd900d494dcdc613c74424a2a0f"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/KQJSZIZQNJFZNDHPOYQYBLPFCQ.JPG"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Dublin"},{"name":"Ireland"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/ireland/dublin/2024/11/11/councillors-say-dublin-revitalisation-plan-hinges-on-formal-commitment-of-1bn-funding/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/ireland/dublin","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Dublin"}}}},{"_id":"GVPMBLCNBVEQLDMYQBX2BBRZYQ","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/politics/2024/11/10/general-election-fine-gael-fianna-fail-sinn-fein-social-democrats-labour-green-party-people-before-profit-campaign-latest/","content_elements":[{"_id":"GCBDEFDFM5E7DJBJ2NC2CDJMR4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731239532645},"content":"Taoiseach <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/simon-harris\" target=\"_blank\">Simon Harris</a> has refused to be drawn on which parties he would rather go into government with after outgoing TD Charlie Flanagan said Fine Gael should strive to avoid “left-wing” influence.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P3NEMBZFMVGPZKSMPVXQJ7IC2E","additional_properties":{"_id":1731257501026},"content":" Mr Flanagan, a former minister for justice who has been critical of the Greens in government in the past, tweeted on Sunday: “Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil must strive to rule together in a majority government. 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Under the terms of the deal, it will not be permitted to extradite Irish citizens to the UAE, or Emirati citizens to Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WLP3HSJDDZDU5AS5P3KNVFS3PQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730980786563},"content":"Ms McEntee said any requests from the UAE to extradite Emiratis in Ireland who may face the death penalty, “or any form of inhumane or degrading treatment”, will be refused, she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KXMLKTCYIVBI5CJM72LR2QE2UE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730980786564},"content":"This would also apply to those who could be wanted for crimes relating to political views or sexual orientation, or other areas “that we would deem completely unacceptable”, she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCDY6C2IB5FUNMX3YVDX7FFP3I","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Jack White"}},"name":"Jack White"}]},"description":{"basic":"More than 12,000 people have been arrested in centre capital since January, Minister for Justice says"},"display_date":"2024-11-07T12:09:34.004Z","headlines":{"basic":"McEntee says gardaí facing increasing ‘challenging behaviours’ in Dublin city centre","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"QNMLCKJY6VX256WBRJRCSYTSVY","auth":{"1":"d3abc37e30e3461577ac79c8c4bb6538ffc53d68b7521fb5570eb04cb7b7040f"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/QNMLCKJY6VX256WBRJRCSYTSVY.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Crime & Law"},{"name":"Ireland"},{"name":"Dublin"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/crime-law/2024/11/07/mcentee-concedes-gardai-facing-increasing-challenging-behaviours-in-dublin-city-centre/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/crime-law","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Crime & Law"}}}},{"_id":"XSCIVFFJGVBXHOPHI7D534RC6E","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":168,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/04cf07ee-5887-46d8-aa7e-89e8e59eb612/versions/1730912205/media/05846017e325376de8b54b71834e0c33_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/business/2024/11/07/christmas-shopping-in-dublin-city-centre-will-be-so-much-more-pleasant-this-year/","content_elements":[{"_id":"V2GPJGJYTZHFFMO4RH2F5WEWME","additional_properties":{"_id":1730904892519},"content":"The lights are up, the tables are stacked and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mariah-carey/\" target=\"_blank\">Mariah Carey</a> has infiltrated the in-store playlists. 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Notably, retailers have not been faring too badly of late, with spending in the Dublin economy increasing in the July-September period for the 17th consecutive quarter, albeit at a slightly more subdued rate.","type":"text"},{"_id":"COPKL5OJKJCZ3B7YCNI7KJ3DNY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730904892525},"content":"As it stands, the benefits to pedestrians from even the initial measures under the plan – published by <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dublin-city-council/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin City Council</a> in partnership with the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/national-transport-authority/\" target=\"_blank\">National Transport Authority</a> – are tangible.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YPPKGJ6YCVHJ5M5LOEPV6VKHKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730904892526},"content":"On one page captioned “the city of walking”, the plan refers to “significant opportunities for improving the pedestrian environment” and talks about ensuring there is “sufficient space for peak demands for pedestrian movement” on “high-quality footpaths” cleared as much as possible of any obstructions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LLAVSXKETVBLZHPQV74QSKT5X4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730904892527},"content":"That still sounds futuristic, rather than a reflection of the current reality. 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However, he said the electrification of the fleet, due to be completed over the next decade, meant the buses could stay and apartments built in the space above the garages.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HK5K2KYSKVCN3JS264I7OW5MXQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730915685238},"content":"“We have to think about how we use our depots, including Donnybrook and Ringsend. Could we not build over the bus station? If it’s going to be an electric bus you don’t have fumes, you don’t have the same noise, and there are really good continental examples,” Mr Ryan said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B4XVN3ICJFGTFP56LXFHORJZ4Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1730915685239},"content":"“The likes of Ringsend – that’s really good land beside the Grand Canal Dock. 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The scheme – which allows subscribers to take and leave bikes at designated “stations”, largely in the city centre – is also facing increased competition from “stationless” bike services which operate across a wider area.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FZ743P744RDTBE2BQGQPGEXRMY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730904665140},"content":"DublinBikes was introduced in 2009 as a partnership between outdoor advertising company JCDecaux and Dublin City Council. The company funded the scheme in exchange for advertising panels on the city streets, with additional revenue coming through subscriptions and hire charges. 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The scheme had been without a sponsor for a considerable length of time, Mr Shakespeare said, adding the council had “no capital funding” for its expansion.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FOOPKLHYARGGHNB3BSNISVYLL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730904665147},"content":"“The service is running at a deficit. This was occurring prior to pandemic and has only gotten worse. The current deficit is probably north of half a million per annum,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2VNVLUAZNFDGPD5X4VHN3RGWWY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730904665148},"content":"Subscriptions had “reduced dramatically” during the pandemic, he said. 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Revitalise O’Connell Street and environs:</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"HJEOIMEDMJFPNBFFCNR6NIVK5A","additional_properties":{"_id":1729539586276},"content":"- Redevelop the GPO as major public building. 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Make policing and security more visible:</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"33LJLQ73LVGWDCWV3WNRBC43CE","additional_properties":{"_id":1729539586286},"content":"- Add 1,000 gardaí to Dublin city centre area to bring to EU average and accelerate reassignment of “noncore” policing duties from gardaí to other agencies.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2Q7FCEUY7NAV3MV25G6OMHRDAA","additional_properties":{"_id":1729539586287},"content":"- Establish city warden programme to support policing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RBFV6PNT3VDEBPOH2DURBO2BNU","additional_properties":{"_id":1729539586288},"content":"- Expand private security on public transport with increased powers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RA24EYLD7ZFULKDOMNRODHBK6U","additional_properties":{"_id":1729539586289},"content":"- Upgrade CCTV network and enact legislation for real time monitoring.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SM34C6YTCRBAHHFJFFLQ2LZX3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1729539586290},"content":"- Relocate O’Connell Street Garda station to the GPO pending its long-term development.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OWHHHK63PRFFLH5LAK75YN3YQQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1729539586291},"content":"<b>5. Deliver more targeted and better located services for vulnerable populations in the city centre:</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"J6FUUJXA7VAXPGDVTDHUDZOKUA","additional_properties":{"_id":1729539586292},"content":"- Ensure emergency accommodation and processing facilities are more equitably spread across Greater Dublin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CSMWDQTZNVF53DDPKQ55Y5INKM","additional_properties":{"_id":1729539586293},"content":"- Develop and enact new bye laws to regulate on-street charitable services.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TZJN6WIDLZGNLLTGYWF2ZLOR4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1729539586294},"content":"<b>6. Implement a dedicated waste management plan for the city centre:</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"D3UOOPZJABHSXPAAJTKV6G6UWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1729539586295},"content":"End the use of plastic bags for waste immediately. 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Create a marketing and communications function for Dublin:</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"YY4X3IPR7ZBPJP3Z4JOC6WSEPI","additional_properties":{"_id":1729539586309},"content":"- Run ‘always-on’ marketing campaigns.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KNVR3WMPWRGNNH66PN3TZWRHOY","additional_properties":{"_id":1729539586310},"content":"- Develop major digital platform for Dubliners.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HIM36MZ5UFDFRPECM2YKDKNRIM","additional_properties":{"_id":1729539586311},"content":"- Co-ordinate a multiyear events programme across public and private sectors.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QDM3UJYC6RBERE64JNB3DWFGS4","additional_properties":{"_id":1729539586312},"content":"- Extend Smart Dublin online data sharing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QVQR2BHGTFHEXL4MODWVKQVCVA","additional_properties":{"_id":1729539586313},"content":"<b>10. 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