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Dublin’s eleventh Five Lamps Arts Festival was launched today and will take place around various venues in North Inner City Dublin from 7th to 11th March. This year's festival's line-up includes up to fifty arts events with up to one hundred participating artists.
Would you like to meet St. Doulagh on Culture Night? It takes place on Friday 22 September in St. Doulagh's Church, Ireland's oldest church still in continuous use as a Centre of Christian Worship (circa 7th. cent.)
By Edward Horgan
Remembering – lest we forget – the destruction and stupidity of war
On Tuesday 10 November Veterans for Peace (VfP) Ireland lay a wreath of white poppies as a symbol of peace at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin’s Parnell Square.
Motorists jumping a red light at a high-risk LUAS junction will get an automatic three point penalty on their licence plus a fine of up to €150, following the introduction of Ireland's first automated red light camera system.
By An Taisce
'The M7 Co. Kildare Lane widening plan will worsen the situation and should be scrapped—Promote 'Smarter Travel Policy' of Car Sharing and Park and Ride'
Dublin congestion is back to 2008 boom time levels and action is needed now, says An Taisce. Congestion damages economic productivity, slows down public transport and service vehicle movement, undermines cycling and causes local air pollution through particle emissions, particularly from diesel vehicles. Our car dependence is also contributing to unhealthy lifestyles and obesity.
Fomer Dublin Mayor Mary Freehill says she believes it is time to change the city's motto 'obedientia civium urbis felicitas'.
Dartmouth Square in Ranelagh, Dublin is up for auction today but a city councillor and chair of the Strategic Policy Committee that has a remit for Planning and Development insists the Square will not be given planning permission.
Dublin Senator Catherine Noone is to propose a Seanad Private Members Bill to amend the outdoor licensing process and ensure that events with over 10,000 tickets will have to obtain a license prior to tickets going on sale.