LATEST DUBLIN CITY NEWS

• “Proposed changes to retail guidelines will cost jobs, compromise main streets and cause more dereliction - An Taisce”

  03-01-2012

  Jobs will be lost and main streets will suffer if Forfas gets its way on Retail Planning  according to a recent An Taisce  Press Release

• Rejuvenating Dublin's Tourism Product

  23-12-2011

  Dublin City Business Association commissioned Jerome Casey and Felim O’Rourke to undertake a study of tourism in Dublin and to make least-cost recommendations for its rejuvenation. The World Tourism Organisation concluded (in relation to Ireland) that "there appears to be very little correlation between marketing spending by National Tourism Organisations and international arrivals". 
  

  Within Ireland, there is a mismatch between the Irish tourism market and the public resources devoted to it. 

  33 existing tourist attractions in Dublin were reviewed, and low-cost initiatives suggested for their improvement.

  From 2000 – 2010 Ireland’s share of world tourism visitors has fallen sharply. In 2004, Ireland changed from being a destination country for incoming tourists to an origin country for Irish, outgoing tourists.

  Dublin must move from passive approval of tourist activities to an active development of tourism as a priority industry in regenerating the city’s economy. 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

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Doing Justice Differently

Tuesday the 28th of November 2006

Speaking at a criminal justice conference held in London, Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs and Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer announced that ten new community courts were to be allocated.

Lord Falconer said community justice is a way of connecting local communities more closely to local courts- delivering justice in the way communities want to see.

Building on the model, the North Liverpool Community Justice Centre and a similar community court in Salford, there will now be ten more local courts introduced in the UK. The communities involved will now be able to tell their local court about the crimes that affect them and where they live and also make suggestions as to what they should do to deal with these crimes.

There are eight key principles of community justice;

• Justice is seen to be done
• Courts connecting the community
• Cases handled robustly and speedily
• A strong independent judiciary
• Solving problems, finding solutions
• Working together
• Repairing harm, raising confidence
• Re-integrating offenders, building communities

The new projects will apply these principles to the circumstances of their residing neighbourhoods.

Preparatory work has started with the relevant local authorities and the judiciary in the ten communities selected, to establish how these initiatives will operate in practice, when they will start and their precise location in the communities involved.

Lord Falconer said; "we need to do justice differently. Communities hit hard by crime want to see justice done in ways that connect more closely to the community. We need courts that are of the community, by the community and for the community."

These ten new community courts will deliver the justice communities want and deserve to see working on their behalf.

"Some of the best community courts are in midtown Manhattan, Red Hook and Philadelphia where they have been operating successfully for a number of years," said DCBA CEO Tom Coffey. The business community would like to see a community court in Dublin to deal with misdemeanours he added.