The planning watchdog has called on South Dublin County Council to withdraw its proposal to require developers of new building projects in Tallaght to use local construction workers.

Councillor Louise Dunne proposed keeping the land in public ownership, but was defeated

A controversial visitor centre, planned for the Dublin Mountains, will not have an adverse impact on protected wildlife and habitats.

The proposal to raise the rent by €3 a week across the board was passed in November last year.

A GAA club is holding an urgent meeting with council officials and gardaí this week after further damage to its two pitches by joyriders over Christmas had put its “survival at stake”.

The houses and apartments will be built at a site at Kilcarbery with 310 of the units earmarked for social housing.

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The public is facing worse services and higher rates as seven local authorities are set to lose €18.4 million in their funding, The Dáil has heard.

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South Dublin County Council have announced plans for a new stand at Tallaght Stadium.

South Dublin County Council has said a €1m budget for park security will be used to restrict access to a particular park in Tallaght plagued by joyriding and anti-social behaviour.

It is being organised as a last minute appeal to South Dublin County Council to re-think plans to bulldoze an area of wild parkland to make way for new playing pitches.

Local property tax rates will stay the same in some Dublin suburbs.

Coillte has established a new, non-profit wing that will focus on species diversity and biodiversity.

A football team has revealed that scramblers driving at high speeds are forcing children to train away from their usual pitch.

The Minister for Housing has said he is expecting to make a "significant" funding announcement regarding the future of the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme this week.

A UFC fighter who is set to win a seat in South Dublin County Council for Sinn Féin has joked he is unlikely to run for the Dáil next as "I don't know if I'm going to be that corrupt".

Both Limerick and Cork Chambers have long argued that a motorway linking the two cities is vital for the economy in the south of the country.

A mother-of-three who was stabbed to death in Clondalkin has been named locally.

The National Environmental Complaints Line dealt with more than 1,200 calls about illegal dumping and burning last year.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said Budget 2019 is “a responsible budget for a modern and caring Ireland that aims to be at the centre of a changing world”.

Journalist Gemma O’Doherty’s chances of becoming an official candidate in the presidential election race have dwindled dramatically after another council voted not to nominate anyone to contest next month’s vote.

Labour leader Brendan Howlin cannot drag out growing demands for him to step down until next month and must address the leadership question at a special meeting this month.

South Dublin County Council, which has 1,500 acres of parks and open space, could not be expected to collect illegally dumped rubbish on a daily basis, the Circuit Civil Court has been told.

Ireland’s worst serial parking offender has run up fines of more than €55,000 after failing to pay 919 tickets.

People living in a number of apartments in Tallaght have been told they cannot use their balconies over fears they could collapse.

The dangerous buildings section of South Dublin County Council is investigating reports of unsafe balconies in Tallaght.

Latest: The leader of the Labour Party, Brendan Howlin, says it's clear that any hope the new Sinn Féin leadership would herald the dawn of a new era has now disappeared.

Justice Minister, Charlie Flanagan, will consider additional legislation to tackle the anti-social misuse of scramblers and quad bikes.

Vacant homes are not the "low hanging fruit" that will solve the housing crisis, according to Eoghan Murphy.

An 18-day sit-in at a community centre in Dublin has come to an end today.

Dublin's planned new suburb, Clonburris, will be about the size of Balbriggan, and have eight schools and two train stations, it was revealed today.

A bike rental scheme that was banned from Dublin City Centre is being trialled in the suburbs.

Latest: A second homeless person has been found dead within the last 24 hours.

The organisers of the child homelessness campaign #MyNameis have been contacted by a government minister from New Zealand but have yet to engage with the Irish Government.

Details of a new suburb the size of Wexford town on the Kildare / Dublin border are due to be revealed soon.

Plans for a waterside park along the River Liffey in Dublin could be scrapped.

A homeless family of seven who sued for “family appropriate” accommodation after living in hotels for 18 months will be housed within two months, the High Court has been told.

A leading Muslim figure has called for hate crime legislation after Islamophobic graffiti was sprayed at a park and a bus stop in Tallaght, south Dublin.

The lawyer for a man accused of falsely imprisoning Joan Burton at a water charge protest in 2014 says his client was not encouraging violence.

The developers of Citywest say they are at a loss as to why South Dublin County Council has refused plans for a €50m housing development for Citywest Village.

More than 10,000 complaints of antisocial behaviour were made to local authorities in the last two years, many relating to housing, according to new figures.

A homeless family of nine, the parents sometimes sleeping in their car after splitting up their seven children to stay from night to night with different relatives, have taken legal action to have their accommodation needs urgently addressed.