Dublin City Council is planning to build 38 apartments on the site of the old Massey’s Funeral Home, on the corner of Rafters Road and Drimnagh Road. The plans were presented at the March meeting of the South Central Area Committee. Planning permission will be sought this year, but the homes will not be ready …
Category Archives: Issues
End the M50 Toll
The effect of the M50 toll is to divert traffic from the motorway, a road designed for cars and trucks, onto the streets where people live. This is especially obvious in Chapelizod, where a lot of the cars that fill the streets and make it dangerous for kids to walk to school, are driven by …
Lansdowne Valley Park
Update June 2025 – I met the Active Travel team recently to find out when we would be able to open the park. They had planned to start work on this project after 2028. They have been able to move it forward, so they start design work in 2026, but it will be at least …
Kilmainham to Thomas Street- Suir Road Davitt Road Junction Upgrade
The public consultation on the upgrade of this junction is open until the 9th of August. (Accessible versions of the drawings are available on the consultation site) What’s wrong with the current layout? As it stands, there are four arms of the junction (plus apartment access on Grand Canal Way), and a Luas line running …
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Dubliners don’t need more delays with traffic plan – Greens
Green city councillors slam Minister Emer Higgins’ “bizarre intervention” on behalf of car park owners Dublin City Council should push ahead with their traffic plans for the city centre, the eight Green councillors have said. They rejected calls by Minister Emer Higgins for the scheme to be delayed, criticising her intervention as “bizarre”.The initial stages …
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Delivering for Dublin: a political agreement for the City Council
Below is a political agreement reached in June 2024 between Dublin City Councillors from Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, the Green Party and the Labour Party. It aims to run from 2024 until 2029. Key principles The group will provide cohesive leadership for Dublin City Council, increasing services and funding and working collaboratively with the executive …
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Green Part Local Election Manifesto
I’m proud to be running for election for the Green Party. The party is full of brilliant people, all working hard to make this city, and this country, a better place to live. Our Local Election manifesto is online here.
Dublin Inquirer Voter Guide
The excellent Dublin Inquirer newspaper have produced a voter guide for the 2024 local elections. They asked their readers to send in the questions they wanted to ask the candidates, and combined all of those questions to identify eight key issues. Those questions, and my answers, can be seen on the Dublin Inquirer site here.
Community Recycling
RecycleIT is a social enterprise based in Clondalkin, that collects and recycles electrical, electronic, and metal waste. They provide employment and training, while also reclaiming material that would otherwise go to landfill or incineration. Earlier this year, I arranged with RecycleIT to carry out household collections in Drimnagh. Over 3 weeks, they collected material from …
Picking litter in Walkinstown
The Make Walkinstown Great group started at the end of the pandemic, and has been picking litter regularly since then. We meet every two weeks, alternating between Bunting Road (opposite the Kestrel) and the Green Kitchen. We pick up huge amounts of plastic bottles and cans – let’s hope the deposit return scheme cuts out …