Last Saturday 50,000 people protested in Dublin against cuts and the IMF/EU bailout… or was it 100,000 people? Or maybe it was 40,000? Or 150,000? Most media outlets said 50,000 people, or up to 50,000 — including RTE, The Irish Times, and Breakingnews.ie. Some said it was below 50,000. Few reported 100,000; The Guardian was [...]
Here’s some of the websites and Twitter accounts to watch for updates on the snow and related travel alerts: WEATHER Met.ie – Irish weather service NRAtraffic.ie – NRA site with major road conditions, weather etc COUNCILS Dublin City Council alerts – warning site for Dublin City Council Dun Laoghaire alerts – warnings site for Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown Fingal Emergency Water Page [...]
Gardai in Crumlin are searching for men who tied up a family in a ‘tiger kidnapping’ last night. The owner of the house is a manager of a cash-in-transit company. Gardai say the men escaped via the rear of the house after a neighbour reported the break-in which happened around 6.20pm. After searching the area, [...]
A 28-year-old man was arrested today in Finglas for the shooting on River Road on July 15. Two men were injured in the shooting, one of those were seriously injured. Gardai say it is the first arrest in this case. “The man was arrested this morning the 29th of November 2010 in Finglas and is [...]
New plans have been released for Dún Laoghaire Baths by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. Local residents opposed previous plans. The Save Our Seafront group was set up to campaign against plans for an 8-storey apartment and shopping complex. Local Green Party TD Ciarán Cuffe said he welcomed part of the proposals but said the amount of landfill planned was not justified, calling it ‘land-grab’. He fears that [...]
The public is being asked for help finding Henryk Wasik (35) as Gardai and his friends are concerned for his safety. Henryk (pictured) is a Polish national, but Gardai at Kevin St Garda Station say they are satisfied that he has not returned home to Poland. “He was last seen at this home on Stamer St, Dublin 8 on Tuesday, [...]
Journalists only make 8 FOI requests to Fingal County Council between 2004 and 2008. Requests from journalists, however, were were higher in 2009, with 9 requests in a single year. The information was released as Fingal County Council launched the Fingal Open Data today: fingal.ie/opendata/ Out of 415 requests in six years, only 19 were from journalists:
As a part of a process of freeing Government information, using Freedom of Information we requested a copy of the diaries of the city manager and the diaries of the assistant city managers for the year 2009, and for 2010 up to the end of August 2010. This was the response: “Copies of the diaries are released insofar as [...]
List of granted FOI requests by Dublin City Council in 2010: NOTE: Only up to 9/2010. 2 2010 DCC Decisions FOI
List of granted FOI requests by Dublin City Council in 2009: 1 2009 DCC Decisions FOI
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