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Good News on Dublin Bikes Northside

The Green Party has welcomed the news that construction will start this Spring for the installation of fifteen new DublinBike stations, most of which will be located in Dublin’s north inner city. Councillor Ciarán Cuffe, Chair of the Council’s Transportation…

Lack of Northside Cycling Facilities Effects Everyone

Following the opening of the Luas Green Line extension in December the Green Party’s Dublin Central Dáil candidate Neasa Hourigan has called on Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII), Transdev and Dublin City Council to work together to provide a fully functioning…

Vacancy and Dereliction in the Inner City

“Sticks out like a sore thumb, doesn’t it” comments one lady as she passes. A Phibsboro resident has stopped to ask what I’m doing as I photograph a very obviously unused and unloved set of two terraced houses in the…

Dublin Bus Site Sell-Off

Dublin Bus has announced that it is selling off a number of its depot sites to consolidate them into one area while freeing up those sites for housing. While making land available for housing is a great idea, and much…

Fighting Blindness Retina Conference

The Retina Conference is an annual event organised by Irish patient-led charity Fighting Blindness, 2017 marks the 18th year of the conference. What began as the ‘All-Ireland Retinal Researchers Network (AIRRN)” Meeting in 2000 has grown from strength to strength…

World Sight Day

Myself and Edie met with the Irish Mirror to promote World Sight Day. There are some amazing leaps being made in medical research and solutions for sight loss at the moment. While they won’t directly benefit us preventable blindness is…

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