Dublin InQuirer

“Well done, Annette! Fair play,” a woman passing by with her child calls out. “We’re delighted for you!”
On the other side of the road in Belcamp Gardens in Priorswood, Annette Flanagan waves back, smiling contently.
Then Flanagan turns around to watch the clean-up crew that she has been waiting on for a decade....

Clothes bank operators are to face fines in future if they don’t tidy up around banks in the city, show tender documents issued earlier this month by Dublin City Council.
Penalties include €50 if a council official sees an overflowing bring bank, and another €200 if overflowing banks aren’t emptied within 24 hours of being reported to an operator....

Advocates for survivors of industrial schools, from Sage Advocacy, met with council managers from across Ireland this week to ask them to consider prioritising industrial school survivors for social housing.
Getting social housing priority significantly speeds up the process of getting a social home....

The government is looking into whether to ask the Land Development Agency to build more private housing on public land banks, according to a 28 April Irish Times article.
However, the Department of Housing hasn’t responded to a query sent Tuesday, asking in what circumstances it envisages that the LDA would develop private market-price homes on state lands....