Brief update:

Northbrook Avenue receives regular patrols and has been the focus of several operations targeting burglaries and other crimes. Operation Acer, which is ongoing in the Dublin area, is an intelligence led operation in burglaries which to date has seen a number of detections of this sort of crime. Operation Acer is part of a national initiative encompassed in Operation Fiacla to combat property crime. These operations are subject to close monitoring and review by Garda management.

Follow the link below to find a copy of the September 2012 edition of the Inner City Employment Newsletter. For general information, news and upcoming events, check out www.standrews.ie.

Inner City Employment Service Newsletter

Congratulations to all the winners and participants in the South East Area’s Dublin City Neighbourhoods Competition, and well done to the organisers!

Check out a list of winners here: Dublin City Neighbourhoods Competition Winners

I was fortunate to sit on that committee alongside Cllr Maria Parodi when I was on the Council (it was also a great personal interest of mine because I grew up on the Green).

In publishing this document the committee suggested a number of spin off projects from the work that already had been done – one was the Tidy Towns initiative that began earlier this year (and had local pols doing their bit clearing cable ties from lampposts!).

The group have been meeting regularly every Saturday morning to take care of our village and yesterday their hard work was officially recognised by the Irish Planning Institute.

It really is a great achievement and a fantastic demonstration of what a community can do when they come together and dedicate themselves to their local area.

This month the questions put to the City Manager by Dublin City Councillors included:

• To ask the Manager to have the road in St. Alban’s Park in Sandymount repaired
• To ask the Manager if and inspection can be carried out on the water pump at Merrion Strand
• To ask the Manager to have the ramp at the top of Moyne Road restored.

To read all the questions and there replies click here.

To qualify for the grant, applicants must live in the Docklands area or its immediate hinterland and be accepted for an accredited and recognised course.

For full information on these grants and application forms, drop into St Andrew’s Resource Centre, 114 Pearse Street, Dublin 2 or call 01 677 1930

My understanding is that Jason’s Pool Hall site (including my old office, the old post office and newsagents) will become a new Lidl supermarket, though this has not been confirmed. The above image is what the new development should look like, with supermarket at ground level and offices above. Serendipity, Paddy Power and Cupcakes are not part of the redevelopment and will remain open for business as usual.

My office in Leinster House continues to function as normal.  If you need to talk to me at any time please do get in touch. You can contact me in any number of ways:

You can call me on (01) 618 3324, email me on eoghan.murphy@oir.ie, social media me through Facebook, Twitter (MurphyEoghan) and LinkedIn, or write to me at Leinster House, Kildare St, Dublin 2.

I look forward to hearing from you.

All the best,

Eoghan

As part of Dublin City Council’s development of a new Arts and Culture Plan for the City, Green Hat has been engaged to find out what is important to those who live and work in or visit Dublin. Focusing on two areas of the City – the North West and the South East, this consultation will ask what is important in arts and culture, what is missing and what are the key priorities.

We would like to arrange conversational workshops in order to seek out views and ideas and are looking for host organisations willing to gather together small groups of people who would like to take part. Groups of 6 – 12 would be ideal for no more than 1 hour, perhaps tying in with scheduled group activities already taking place. The workshops will be very informal and a contribution can be made towards room hire and refreshments if required.

The Green Hat team would like to schedule workshops on 22nd – 23rd August, 12th – 13th September and 19th – 20th September 2012.

A short survey also available to complete online and should take no longer than 10 minutes. You can also download a printable version as well.

Access the Online Survey here.

Download the printable version here.

The Dublin Tall Ships Festival 2012 will welcome over 40 Tall Ships into Dublin as the final host port of the 2012 Tall Ships race series.

The Festival will take place from Thursday 23rd August – Sunday 26th August, 2012, providing free entertainment for all.

Venues include Grand Canal Square and environs, George’s Dock, Linear Park, Spencer Dock, North/South Quays from Custom House Quay along North Wall Quay and from City Quay to Sir John Rogerson’s Quay.

A Schedule of Events and map of the Festival Area are available to download from the website : www.dublintallships.ie/festival

Useful information for local people and businesses can be found here