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Cllr. Kieran Binchy has welcomed the news that the extension to St Brigid’s Convent & Scoil Mhuire primary schools, Haddington Road, Dublin 4 will be included in the construction programme for 2013.      

Dublin City Council has set up a report centre today (Friday the 14th December 2012) to take calls from members of the public affected by today’s high tide or by flooding – please call 01 2222155 – the number will operate until 3PM today.

Tomorrow’s (Friday the 14th December) high tide is predicted to be extremely high, exceeding Dublin City Council’s Tide Alert levels. Following a meeting of the City Council’s Flooding Assessment Group the following precautionary actions are being taken   · The car parks at Sandymount promenade and at Clontarf are being closed today.   · A limited number of large sandbags […]

Please see below information on how you can have your say on the local electoral area boundaries for the city council and county council elections in 2014. Cllr. Kieran Binchy will be making a strong submission calling for the re-unification of Sandymount. Currently Sandymount straddles two separate electoral areas (South East Inner City and Pembroke/Rathmines) which militates against efficient local […]

Attention: Dublin City Businesses Commercial Rates Valuations in Dublin City are currently being reviewed by the Valuations Office. The Rateable Valuation of your property is one of the two factors in the calculation of your Rates charge, the other factor being the annual rate on valuation, which is a figure voted in by the elected city councillors as part of […]

Met Éireann has issued a weather warning for Dublin valid until 6 pm on Wednesday 17th. October. They forecast that “some local flooding is possible from the rain but coastal flooding is also a threat due to additional combination of spring tides, low pressure and SE gales and some high seas tomorrow”.   Between 1 am on Wednesday 17th October […]

Cllr. Kieran Binchy’s Autumn 2012 Newsletter is currently being distributed to residents in the South East Inner City Electoral Ward, but it is now also available online. It contains news and updates on a range of issues being addressed by Councillor Binchy across the electoral ward, as as well as specific news on Portobello, the Inner City, the South Docklands, […]

Dog fouling on footpaths is a big issue for many local residents. The City Council has launched a pilot campaign on Thorncastle St, Ringsend to highlight the need for responsible behaviour when it comes to cleaning up after pets in order to ensure that our streets and parks are safe and clean for everyone. As part of the campaign the […]

Some local news updates: Cllr. Binchy was delighted to attend the AGM of the Lansdowne and District Residents’ Association, at which LADRA’s new website was launched. For more information check out www.ladra.org   Residents in Lansdowne Park are very concerned over the use of the lane as a rat-run, as cars are not respecting the speed limit or the residential […]

Dublin City Council this year withdrew from the domestic waste collection market after 140 years collecting Dubliners’ rubbish. Unfortunately the manner in which the withdrawal was handled by the City Council was particularly poor. Households were left in the dark as to what was going on, with poor communication from both the City Council and from Greyhound, who took over […]