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“I was lying in my hospital bed and I just kept thinking, ‘God, please don’t let me die. I want to live to see the dump gone,’” says resident Annette Flanagan.

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In Priorswood, the council has finally begun clearing an industrial-scale illegal dump in a residential neighbourhood ↗

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“I just cannot get over that they didn’t maintain the same level of funding at a minimum, because it’s a bloody great scheme,” says Fine Gael Councillor Tom O’Leary, of the homelessness-prevention scheme.

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Fingal residents need better access to pools and pitches, new sports facilities audit says ↗

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“I just cannot get over that they didn’t maintain the same level of funding at a minimum, because it’s a bloody great scheme,” says Fine Gael Councillor Tom O’Leary, of the homelessness-prevention scheme.

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With their funding halved, Fingal councillors join chorus begging for more money for tenant-in-situ scheme ↗

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A spokesperson for the Dublin Region Homeless Executive said its priority was “to ensure there is an adequate provision of accommodation for people experiencing homelessness”.

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Time and again, long-term tenants evicted and their homes turned into homeless accommodation ↗

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The government should tell communities directly about plans for new asylum shelters, some activists and politicians say.

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What’s the best way to tell area residents about plans for a new asylum shelter nearby? ↗

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But it is still early days.

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The sports pitches are long gone. The playground too. The community centre burned in 2021 and the council has left it a charred husk. “It’s so disheartening.”

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