Gardai are looking to track down the driver of a black jeep involved in a hit and run last Saturday, March 5. A 13-year-old boy, who was a pedestrian at the time, was struck by the vehicle. He was hit by the SUV outside the public library on the Irishtown Road, Dublin 4, at around [...]
Dublin City Council manager John Tierney said tonight that the council has spent €60m on the Poolbeg incinerator project to date and could spend a further €60m before the project is even completed. At the monthly council meeting, one councillor corrected him and that the council report provided to them stated €75m was spent so far on [...]
RTE has responded to Dublin City Council’s claim it cannot break its contract on the Poolbeg incinerator without incurring costs. The council made the statement after Prime Time relieved that there is a get out clause in the contract with Covanta. In response to the city council’s statement, RTE’s environment correspondent, Paul Cunningham, said on Twitter at the weekend: “In the Times [on [...]
Public information days are to be held this week on the on the River Dodder flood study, hosted by Dublin City Council and South Dublin County Council.
The fate of Dublin’s landmark Poolbeg chimneys is a step closer to being decided after the ESB shut down the attached power plant at the end of March. The ESB said no decision has been made in relation the chimneys (pictured in the background above), adding it would be in contact with Dublin City Council. [...]
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