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Stoneybatter l Phibsboro l Cabra l Ashtown l Santry l Finglas l Glnasnevin l Drumconedra l Ballymuwn l Inner City l Tyrrelsts own l Corduff l Mulhuddart l Blanchardstown l Ongar l Tyrrellstown l Clonsilla Only private homes for Coultry site SPECIAL TO LOCAL NEWS by Paul Kelly Happy Christmas WELL OVER 1200 people — 300 families — on the housing list will lose a chance at future Christmas-at-home cheer as another valuable tract of public land is to go to private develop - ers. The site in question is at Coultry (west of the main Bally - mun Road), present home of House Painting Glór na nGael crèche and the internal & Muck and Magic gardening co- operative. external The private-developer plan, just revealed by Dublin City special rates for Housing boss Brendan Kenny, is FINGAL COUNTY COUNCIL CONGRATULATES CORDUFF senior Citizens understood to have the ap - proval of Housing Minister AND BALDOYLE - ON PRIDE OF PLACE AWARDS all areas covered Eoghan Murphy. Corduff residents and supporters from Fingal County Council celebrate winning the Urban There was widespread shock Neighbourhoods category at the 2018 Pride of Place awards held in Cork City Hall and outrage on the southside when a similar plan, for around has blocked access to cash for ter Murphy refused to sign off lymun plan, the Council’s a thousand units in the Kilbar - Seasons Greetings schemes he doesn’t like on a tiny social housing Brendan Kenny told local TD bery/The Grange site near through his control of the scheme put forward by Fingal Dessie Ellis (SF, Dublin NW) Lucan, also went private: see Housing Finance Agency. In County Council. The Minister that, while cash from tenants Kilcarbery go ahead for private many cases covered by Local protested that the plans were of the 300 units would go to homes on public lands, Local News in the last three years, (a) informal and (b) did not the developer, families would News West , October 19 2018. this means blocking social give numbers for the re - be able to move into the housing — while at the same quested social housing mix. houses and apartments at PURSE STRINGS time issuing public state - Local News , in our North “cost rental”. ments promising more and edition of September 13, “Cost rental” is a subtly but While, nominally, the fi - more of it. Waine calls Murphy’s bluff on suspiciously unfamiliar term. nance and social housing This has been true of all Mulhuddart, exposed the fact “Affordable rental” is more arrangements for Coultry, Kil - schemes proposed by all local that, according to documents commonly used to indicate a carbery, Mulhuddart and other authorities in the capital: possessed by Cllr Matt Waine big concession on rent. It usu - public lands is in the hands of Dublin City Council, South (Solidarity, Mulhuddart), ally means a state-subsidised the relevant Council, Minister Dublin County Council and these objections were at best discount of some 20 to 30 per Murphy holds the purse strings. even tiny Fingal. irrelevant and at worst false. cent off market rates. He can, and frequently has, Indeed just recently Minis - Defending the Coultry Bal - continued on page 2

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ful€ly 2ins5ta0ll ed IRISH COMPANY EXCELLENT AFTERCARE SERVICE Happy Christmas y Happ mas Christ Tel: 083 3133133 2 | THE LOCAL NEWS continued from page 1 Generally, these families would have an income of be - tween €30,000 and €50,000 per year. The words “cost rental”, however, raises the spectre of the developer pro - nouncing the monthly rental to be “at cost” — irrespec - tive of whether or not it is in any ordinary or accepted sense af - fordable. And there are to be MULHUDDART NIXED BY MINISTER: our September 13 story showed how hard it no social housing was to get government go-ahead for even a modest social housing scheme units whatsoever in the 300-unit Coultry estate. UNHAPPY

CROSSED OUT: our diagram, again from our West edition of October 19, shows how Coultry, unlike Kilcarbery, Deputy Ellis says offers not even a token quota of social-and-affordable. There are other worries, too, including the ethos and he is in no way as - control of the 300-unit, all-private estate sured by the Council’s Affordable rental homes are aimed at middle”: too well-off List but too poor to “cost rental” prom - (and affordable sale) those in the “squeezed to make the Housing get a mortgage. ises. He told Local News that he is un - happy on other grounds too: • Entire control of the Coultry estate will be taken away from SOUTHSIDE SOLD BY MINISTER: again the Housing Minister did his best to block the Council — which Sinn Féin plans for southside social housing (Local News West, October 19) — but currently owns the at least the Kilcarbery scheme, as we reported, made a nominal concession to so - land — and handed cial housing over to the developer. Kenny,” Deputy Ellis councillors such as cient votes in the • There will be told Local News . Danny O’Brien none of the “charter” chamber to defeat the “But so far, I’m not (Lucan) and arrangements of the sale of land for Mr reassured and I’m not Madeleine Johnans - kind drawn up by Kenny’s all-private happy.” son (PBPA, Clon - better co-ops such as plan. Saying or dalkin), who had Clúid Housing. These Yea Nay The Kilcarbery pushed for a largely- enforce certain disci - to the sale of public scheme, offered a land to private devel - social scheme. plines on tenant and mere 30 per cent so - opers is one of the few Deputy Ellis hopes landlord alike, e.g., no cial-and-affordable remaining powers that the vote here antisocial behaviour; units and was allowed that individual coun - does not go the same new roofs every 10 to proceed. Chiropody Card Holders Welcome years. cillors still possess. way: Ellis is confident that “I’m very much in Here, in Ballymun, • It will displace the percentage plum - the Muck and Magic his Sinn Féin col - favour of the Coultry mets from 30 per cent gardening project; leagues in Dublin City development, assum - to zero. and a nearby Irish Council will use it to ing we can do some - language crèche, Glór nix Mr Kenny’s thing to re-house the Yet, Deputy Ellis na Gael. scheme in its present, Muck and Magic and fears, with Fine Gael • The likely rent all-private form. Glór na Gael proj - and even perhaps will be €1000 per On the other hand, ects,” he said. some Fianna Fáil sup - month and more. the Kilcarbery/The “But it has to be a port, Minister Mur - Seasons Greetings to all our Customers That last point Grange giveaway on proper social housing phy’s anti-social particularly angers the southside was, scheme — with some housing agenda, fur - the local Sinn Féin against many predic - units set aside for af - thered by his ap - fordable sale or af - deputy: tions, voted through pointees in Council with unexpected Fi - fordable rental. The “You’d need to be management, may anna Fáil support all-private scheme earning €60,000 or once again win from councillors such that we’re faced with €70,000 to afford one through. of these houses!” as Trevor Gilligan (FF, at the moment is out - As things stand, He says he will Clondalkin) — though rageous.” yet another large tract continue to discuss Gilligan did express the matter with the reservations about 30 PER CENT TO ZERO of publicly-owned Council: the low social-and-af - land is set to be given “I want to go over fordable numbers. Local News has over to the private the details with The result was been unable to find sector — with not a [Council housing shock and dismay out whether or not single social housing 01 - 556 3662 boss] Brendan amongst Sinn Féin there would be suffi - unit to show for it.

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Comment - John Lahart said, opportunities that to ensure this Bill reach objected to a bill that “The North Inner “Everyone recognises exist in our capital's Committee Stage and focuses on eliminating City is an important that the root causes of North Inner City. eventually pass poverty. and highly visible part the problems that re - “It had been our through the Oireach - “I emailed Minister of our capital city. The sulted in the gangland clear understanding tas. Paschal Donohue on north inner city is rich crime that erupted two that Sinn Féin would “We are furious that two separate occasions with history, culture years ago did not ap - not block the bill so many who claim to last month regarding and potential but Min - All Bouquets made to order pear or emerge reaching committee be advocates in Dáil the importance of this ister Donohue and the Personal friendly Service overnight and, as such, stage but instead they Éireann for the regen - bill but both went ig - rest of his colleagues Weddings, Funerals, Birthdays, all Occasions could never be solved very cynically ab - eration of the North nored. The Minister have sent a clear mes - overnight. stained on the vote Inner City stood in the was also invited to the sage that they couldn’t Swags, Table Arrangements, Hand Ties, “However, over two and therefore effec - way of this bill. The public meeting I held care any less,” con - Christmas Bouquets made to order delivered years on it’s important tively blocked it. politicians that high - on the Bill which was cluded Mary. to point out that the “It is very frustrating to the one you love Mulvey report was, by that Sinn Féin and OPEN CHriSTmAS EvE until 4pm sharp its own definition, an Government benches SELECTION OF PLANTS €3 outline plan of short- talk about solving sys - NORTHSIDE DRIVEWAYS term initiatives. 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For a Good Job that fits your needs & budget Tel: William 087 465 3635 or 01 902 0504 email: [email protected] Happy Christmas to all our customers 14 | THE LOCAL NEWS Greens’ Neasa in dual Dáil and Council race SPECIAL TO North) for the Dáil; Keith dle for many’s the one of LOCAL NEWS Connolly (FF, them…) Ballymun/Finglas) for the In the Council those By PAUL KELLY Council; and now Neasa reliables would include AS THE May 2019 local Hourigan (Greens, Cabra/ the likes of Noeleen Reilly elections draw nearer, get Glasnevin; and Dublin (Ind), Paul McAuliffe (FF) used to it: you’ll be field - Central), running for both and Seamus McGrattan ing many a party pitch, — are all more than wor - (SF). (The latter is likely to on your doorsteps and in thy. stay south, in Cabra/Glas - Local News . The bad news? nevin, rather than migrat - And those home in - Their competitors, es - ing to the new vaders will double in pecially the incumbents Ballymun/Finglas.) number should the for - — Council and Dáil alike But Neasa Hourigan is ever-wobbly Dáil head - — are themselves com - running for Dáil Éireann count threaten a New prised of an above-aver - too. Year campaign in the Big age quota of great workers Incumbents in her House. and doughty fighters: Dublin Central battle - The good news is that people you wouldn’t want ground could not be more the newcomers and sec - to lose. (Odd that politi - high-profile: Sinn Féin ond-time-outers fea - cians en masse invariably leader Mary Lou McDon - tured in Local News loom in the mind as a ald, Finance Minister recently — Deirdre despicable bunch; but Paschal Donohoe, and Heney (FF, Dublin Bay NEASA HOURIGAN: running in Cabra/Glasnevin you’d happily light a can - Maureen O’Sullivan (Ind), CLOSE RACE: note, in 2009, the tight bunching of all candidates (bracketed in red) from Seamus McGrattan (SF) to Gary Fitzgerald (Greens): fewer than 600 votes Happy Christmas to all our customers separated all five. The more recent outing (left) was horrible for the Greens, but then both candidate and party were late out of the traps successor to the immor - ture. For that, you may PrOPErTy mAiNTENANCE tal Tony Gregory. have to go back to 2009. All this makes it all the Note that, in 2009, & HOmE imPrOvEmENTS more horrible to contem - fewer than six hundred plate a good citizen, fine votes separated last- mind and devoted man-elected Seamus Mc - mother like Neasa Grattan (SF), from the Building for the Future! pounding the streets of first four also-rans, in - D7 and D1 suburbia cluding the Green Party’s without reward. own Gary Fitzpatrick. Any fair-minded ob - Note also the runaway server might join the success of Mary Fitz - Dodo’s chorus from Alice patrick (FF), with her in Wonderland : three-thousand-plus first “Everybody has won, preferences. Fitzpatrick, and all must have prizes!” if she runs in the new 7- But can Ms Hourigan, seater, will romp home. realistically, manage But her huge vote (and more than good showing? that of Labour’s Áine Let’s assume, for sim - Clancy) offers tasty pick - plicity, that no General ings. Election looms for at least Useful, given the fa - another Dáil cycle (or mous Green ability to that, if it does, it will be pick up shoals of Number late in 2019); and that Ms 2s, particularly from Hourigan can concen - younger voters. trate on the newly- Granted, the party’s minted Council 7-seater miserable showing in of Cabra/Glasnevin. 2014 cannot be dis - As always, the race counted. At the same comes down to two time, their candidate Tom things: the candidate and Duffy was, by all ac - the political landscape. counts, late in, and cov - First, the latter: ered nothing like the 10,000-plus doors on THE POLITICAL which Neasa Hourigan (we hear) has already LANDSCAPE knocked.

By one measure, the Greens’ Neasa Hourigan THE CANDIDATE will struggle to keep her Ability and appeal? deposit. But by another, Beyond question. arguably more valid one, She’s Green Party but she’s in with a shout. without the whiff of ca - l Extensions & House builds l refurbishments l Driveways & Patios The First- pitulation still clinging to Count/First-Pref for the l Kitchens & Bedrooms l House maintenance l PvC Windows & Doors the Eamon Ryan/Trevor old LEAs, Cabra/Finglas Sargent generation; and l All Carpentry Services l Conservatories l Painting & Decorating (as it was in 2014) and she belongs to the practi - Cabra/Glasnevin (its 2009 l Plumbing l Sunrooms l New Showers cal, rather than the fanat - incarnation), are worth ical, wing of the l Bathroom & Tiling l Soﬃt Facia gutters (3 Colours) l Security lights looking at in full: see our environmental move - l l chart of both races. Electrical Services Boiler Services (Gas & Oil) ment. The more recent Well-known too. numbers come with a She has volunteered health warning. for many years now in the 2014 was a messy race Phone: (01) 868 9136 Daycare Centre attached for the Greens and may to Christ the King; as well not offer an accurate pic - Phone: (01) 848 2110 as appearing regularly in continued on page 16 Phone: Nic 085 848 2110 THE LOCAL NEWS | 15

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FINGLAS CREDIT UNION FOX VETERINARY CLINIC FINGLAS Hele, Michael John and all the staff would like to wish everyone a wonderful Holiday season. We also want to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their support during our two years in Finglas village. We have really enjoyed looking after each and every pet that has come through the clinic door. Christmas Opening & Closing Times We have watched new puppies grow into adult dogs and we have also been there when a treasured pet DaTE DaY opEN/CLoSED has passed away. We are proud to help the People of Finglas and their pets. 25th December Tuesday Closed for Christmas Day 26th December Wednesday Closed for St Stephen’s day 27th December Thursday Closed 28th December Friday Closed 29th December Saturday open as normal 30th December Sunday Closed 31st December Monday Closed 01nd January Tuesday Closed for New Year’s Day 2nd January Wednesday open as Normal The Board and Staff wish all our Members a Very Happy Christmas We look forward to seeing you all over the Christmas season and in 2019 Fox Vet Finglas Holiday Pet Tips: 1. Remember to avoid treats and table scraps over house. The fleas love the warm indoors. Keeping the festive period. We will all be enjoying a wide your pets treated with a Veterinary Licenced prod - variety of foods. However, for our pet friends keep uct will help ensure you don’t get a flea infestation. it simple and keep their diet regular. At this time of year, we tend to see a increase in pets suffering 4. Winter time is also a time when we see far to with Gastric upsets and illness. many pets hit by cars. Please always keep you pet on the leash when out walking. It’s also advised to 2. Make sure you still get time to fit in a walk with use a reflective coat on them or at least a reflector your pet or at least play with them in the house. on their collar. Stay safe when out and about. It’s not unusual for pets to gain a few pounds over the festive period. If you can’t make it out, then 5. Finally, some of our pets don’t like too many reduce their food on days when they are not out visitors in the house or may find the festive season and about. stressful. Cats tend to suffer more than dogs. To 3. It might be winter, but fleas are still a risk. Flea prevent this and possible stress related illness. You eggs will hatch, and larva will become active can use a variety of products to help them. Don’t indoors when we have our central heating on in the hesitate to contact us or your local vet. THE LOCAL NEWS | 21

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