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Use your LEAP card with dublinbikes

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Dublin City Council, the National Transport Authority, Coca-Cola and JCDecaux have announced that the Coca-Cola Zero dublinbikes scheme will enable new and existing bike share members to use the service using just one smart card – their LEAP Card.

While this initiative won’t allow people to pay for their Coca-Cola Zero dublinbikes trips from their LEAP Card account, it will allow them to hold their registration details for both schemes on the one card, cutting back on the requirement to carry an additional card in their wallets or purses. The customer account for Coca-Cola Zero dublinbikes will continue to be the source for payment for annual memberships and 3-day ticketing and for each bike trip taken which incurs a cost.

Associating a LEAP Card so that it can be used with Coca-Cola Zero dublinbikes is very simple for both an existing or new member of the bike share scheme:

  • Existing bike-share members just need to log in to their account at dublinbikes.ie and follow the on-screen instructions to associate a LEAP Card with their existing account;

  • New members simply log on to dublinbikes.ie where they will be requested to choose either LEAP Card or Coca-Cola Zero dublinbikes membership card. They will be taken through a number of easy to follow steps after which, their LEAP Card needs to be validated for use at any one of the 101 stations across the city.

Lord Mayor of Dublin Brendan Carr said, “this will make it very easy and convenient for new and existing bike share members, to easily link with other modes of public transport. I have no doubt this will prove to be an attractive feature for commuters who want to use the one card to link their bike journeys with other sustainable public transport services, at various connection points across the city.”

Anne Graham, Chief Executive NTA said : “Being able to use LEAP Card across multiple transport modes has proved to be a big draw for commuters with over one million cards sold since its launch five years ago.  Adding the customer ID for Coca-Cola Zero dublinbikes to the LEAP Card should make people’s journeys around town a little easier; with the bike scheme accessible on the Leap Card, people will have one less card to carry around.”

Ronan Farren, Director of Public Affairs and Communications, Coca-Cola Ireland said, “We’re delighted to be joining Dublin City Council, the National Transport Authority and JCDecaux to make this announcement today. The Coca-Cola Zero dublinbikes scheme continues to enjoy huge popularity and is one of the most successful bike schemes in the world, with more than 64,000 subscribers and 16.3 million journeys taken since the scheme came into being in 2009. Innovations that make using the scheme easier and more convenient for people are to be welcomed. We hope that this move, which further integrates the city’s public transport system, will enable those who haven’t tried the scheme yet to give it a go.”

Joanne Grant, Managing Director JCDecaux said, “Coca-Cola Zero dublinbikes is already an overwhelming success and an excellent demonstration of the JCDecaux city partnership model.  We are very pleased to have worked with the National Transport Authority and Dublin City Council to deliver this initiative which will broaden the appeal of the scheme and make it accessible to more people.”

TDRLive! RTÉ Mojocon 2016

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The world’s largest mobile journalism conference is taking place in Dublin’s Aviva Stadium this weekend. Watch everything here!

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Live Blog RTÉ Mojocon 2016
 

RTÉ MoJocon 2016 a sell out – so what is it all about?

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The second RTÉ MoJocon takes place in Ireland this weekend. What is this MoJoCon we hear you ask? It is the conference where mobile journalists gather to talk and discuss work methods, the latest apps and gear, but also where everyone uses the smartphone to tell their stories. And that is the important thing for the 500 journalists who will gather at the Aviva this weekend. It is all about the story telling.

Filming with apps such as the ‘industry standard’ Filmic Pro and editing with iMovie is one aspect, but using a variety of other apps and techniques to send the story straight to social media was a central part of the coverage produced by RTÉ journalist Philip Bromwell and his ‘mojo’ team during the recent Irish election and the centenary of the 1916 Rising. Here are a couple of examples:

These may be breaking news stories such as those told by AJ+ journalist Shadi Rahimi and her crew when they reported from Ferguson on the night that the Grand Jury decided not to indict Officer Darren Wilson over the shooting of Michael Brown. It was safer, Shadi explained to us last year, simply to use mobile phones. The situation was so explosive that if they had used TV cameras then they could have been putting themselves in danger. By using phones they just looked like anyone else in the crowd.

The story might be made into a film such as Tangerine which was lauded at Sundance.

The director Sean Baker will also be in Dublin this weekend to explain how he made the whole award-winning film on an iPhone.

Last year filmmaker Conrad Mess told the delegates at this popular conference that he had made a couple of films using just the iPhone. When the Dublin Reporter spoke to him after the conference, it turned out that he did not actually own an iPhone – he just borrowed one from whoever happened to be around!

Advertising has also been revolutionised by the adoption of mobile filmmaking. This lovely film, for example, was commissioned to show off the attributes of a luxury car:

Sadly even if you wanted a ticket the event at the Aviva stadium is now sold out.

 

Council speaks out on busking rules

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Dublin City Council has issued a statement on the proposed new rules on busking in the city. What do you think?

Currently no regulation exists to control Busking and Street Performance in Dublin City and the Council has been actively pursuing this issue over the last two years, it was agreed that bye laws were necessary.

Following a public consultation process for the Draft Bye Laws, a total of 88 submissions were received from performers, residents, business owners and city workers. The vast majority welcomed regulation with the main problem cited as noise.  A lot of people visiting and working in the City find the noise levels very invasive.

At a special meeting of its Strategic Policy Committee for Arts, Culture, Recreation and Community held earlier this week, Dublin City Council considered these draft Bye Laws to regulate street performance in the City and the various suggestions and responses received from the public.

The Committee agreed to recommend the proposed bye laws to the full City Council for final ratification at its upcoming meeting in February.

Cllr Mary Freehill, Chairperson of the Strategic Policy Committee , “I welcome this proposed regulation that will make for a more balanced, fair and level playing pitch both for performers and City Centre dwellers, business and workers. I am very pleased that we also agreed that the Bye Laws will be reviewed six months after implementation. We will invite public comment in September and responses will be reviewed by this Strategic Policy Committee in October. The review will particularly focus on the management and workability of the sound levels proposed.”

 

The draft bye laws propose the following (revisions to previous draft bye laws)

  • Issuing of permits for performing, maximum noise level of 80 decibels – performance time frame 11am to 11p.m.

 

  • A person may only perform for a maximum of two hours on the same site and  not perform twice in the same location within a 24 hour period

 

  • Performers must be 3 meters away from business entrances/dwellings.

 

  • Compliance will be monitored by Dublin City Council on a regular basis

 

  • Ban on dangerous props has been removed and a requirement to hold public liability insurance has been included.

 

The report submitted to the Strategic Policy Committee (SPC) can be obtained by emailing cra@dublincity.ie  A copy of the draft bye laws which will now be amended to reflect the recommendation of the SPC and submitted to the February meeting of the City Council can also be obtained by emailing cra@dublincity.ie

If ratified by the City Council the bye laws will take legal effect in March.

Win a year’s free parking in Dublin

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With all the roadworks in town at the moment this might make coming to Dublin with your car slightly more pleasant! Win a year’s free parking in Dublin City this Christmas #WinDubparking
Dublin City Council and Parking Tag are getting into the Christmas spirit by giving away a year’s free parking in Dublin city to one lucky winner this December. They will also be awarding spot prizes of €100 Parking Tag credit on 12 randomly selected days between 1st and 24th December.
Anyone can enter the competition at www.parkingtag.ie to be in with a chance to win.
“Dublin City Council runs a parking promotion every December because we want to encourage people to come into the city centre over the festive season to shop, socialise and do business. This is the first year we’ve offered a prize rather than a discount and we expect it to be very popular”, says Eithne Gibbons who heads Dublin City Council’s parking section.
Commenting on the promotion on behalf of Parking Tag, Jim Deignan, Managing Director at Payzone Ireland, said: “We are delighted to be involved in another great promotion with Dublin City Council. We hope that this competition will create greater awareness of Parking Tag and encourage people to drive into the city this Christmas, availing of the easy to use pay-by-phone parking service, as they go about their business.”
The winners will be awarded Parking Tag credit and will join the 70,000 registered motorists who already use their phone to pay for parking. Parking Tag makes parking in Dublin city easy – once registered, you can pay for parking via app, text or phone call. Parking Tag even reminds you 10 minutes before your parking expires and you can extend your stay without returning to your car.

Parking Tag now accounts for 25 per cent of Dublin City Council’s parking revenue and is an increasingly popular alternative to paying at parking metres.
Dublin City Council and Parking Tag will select the lucky winner of a year’s free parking on January 5th 2015.The winners of the €100 Parking Tag credit will be announced on Dublin City Council’s social media channels during December.
For terms and conditions see www.parkingtag.ie

Ambulance log book reveals what happened at the Easter Rising

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Dublin City Council has acquired a unique Dublin Fire Brigade Ambulance log-book which covers the period of the Easter Rising, 24-29 April 1916. The log-book relates to Tara Street Fire Station and records hour-by-hour the response of the Dublin ambulance service to those injured in the Rising.

Details are given regarding the call-out of ambulances throughout Easter Week, giving names, addresses and ages of victims with an account of injuries suffered and the name of the hospital to which they were delivered. Victims include civilians (including children) and military personnel – but not members of the Irish Volunteers or Irish Citizen Army, as each garrison had its own cohort of nurses. As the week progresses, there are more entries recording fires in the city and towards the end of the week, both the ambulance and fire brigade are forbidden by Lieutenant Myers from responding to calls within the area of the Rising, as he deemed this to be too dangerous. Inserted into the volume are loose-leaves giving an account, compiled in July 1916, of the activities of Thomas Street Fire Station during the 1916 Rising.

Lord Mayor Christy Burke will be presented with the Log-Book in the Mansion House at 2.00 p.m. on Thursday 20th November 2014. The Lord Mayor remarked “I am delighted that Dublin City Council has obtained this important contemporary record of the 1916 Rising. This volume details the impact of the Rising on Dublin and particularly the citizens who were caught up in these historic events. It also records the bravery of those who staffed the ambulance and fire brigade services, continuing to look after the public even under fire.”

The volume will be available for viewing from Monday 24th November at Dublin City Library & Archive, 138-144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2. Plans are also underway to digitise the volume and to publish its contents on Dublin City Council’s website.

Big Christmas Tree Lighting ceremonies around Dublin

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The Lord Mayor of Dublin Christy Burke and Dublin City Council would love you to get along to some of the Christmas Tree Lighting ceremonies taking place around the city in the coming weeks.

The Lord Mayor will switch on the lights of the city’s biggest Christmas Tree in O’Connell Street on Sunday 30th November and local councillors will deputise for him at the many local tree lighting ceremonies around the city.

Dublin City Council has provided approximately 30 Christmas trees which will be switched on in local communities in preparation for the festive season from 26th November until 4th December.

The Lord Mayor said “Local Tree Lighting events are a great way for communities to mark the beginning of the Christmas season. Children love this magical time of year. I would like to congratulate Dublin City Council for organising ceremonies all over the city.”

A full list of ceremonies is available at this link.

Property Tax deadline looming

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Dublin City Council advises that making contact with their offices or the NPPR Bureau by e-mail before the deadline can freeze any additional penalties that might otherwise come into effect on 1st September 2014.

The six month period during which further NPPR late penalties cease to accumulate in respect of non compliant properties is due to expire at midnight on Sunday 31st August 2014. Persons wishing to settle their liability can still do so online at www.nppr.ie

Significant numbers have paid the NPPR liability since the 1st March and many more payments are being processed at present. Dublin City Council is aware that many more people want to settle their NPPR liabilities before the expiry of the deadline on 31st August. Some people may need to clarify aspects of the liability and as a consequence significant numbers of people are making contact by telephone to our offices. Due to the huge increase in the numbers calling local authority offices, not all callers will get through and we apologise for this inconvenience.

Any person who wishes to settle their NPPR liability and cannot get through to local authority offices by telephone can have further late penalties frozen by making contact with either the National Bureau by e-mail at support@nppr.ie or by making contact with Dublin City Council by e-mail at nppr@dublincity.ie before the expiry of the deadline on 31st August 2014 indicating the property for which they want to settle the NPPR liability and giving their contact details. Any person who doesn’t have access to e-mail may correspond in writing with us at NPPR Unit, Block B, Blackhall Walk, Queen Street, Dublin 7, by the deadline of 31st August 2014. Staff dealing with the NPPR liability will make contact as soon as possible after 1st September to make the arrangements for settling the liability.

Dublin City Council will deal with all cases presented to them on an individual basis taking into account the circumstances of the property owner.

Lord Mayor opening book of condolence for Gaza

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Lord Mayor of Dublin, Christy Burke, has announced that the City of Dublin will open a book of condolence for victims of the current conflict which has resulted in loss of life in Gaza and Israel.

The public will have an opportunity to sign the book at The Mansion House, Dawson Street, as follows:

Friday, August 1st : 10a.m. to 5p.m.

Saturday, August 2nd: 10a.m. to 5p.m.

Monday, August 4th: 11.a.m. to 4p.m.

The Lord Mayor says “I have opened a Book of Condolence to allow the public express their feelings for all victims of this tragedy and to highlight our concern at the loss of life on all sides of this conflict.

I call on all the protagonists to refrain from any action which may result in more civilian casualties and would reiterate that the conflict can only be resolved through negotiation.”

Dublin House Project

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Dublin City Council will launch the Dublin House Project on Monday 21st July at 11 a.m. on the site to be advertised for sale at 29/30 Fishamble Street, Dublin 8.  The Lord Mayor, Christy Burke and the City Architect, Ali Grehan will be attending the launch.

Dublin House is an initiative of the Housing Department through the City Architects’ Division to promote the potential of small-scale residential development in the inner city and inner suburban areas. It is a trial initiative to enable people to be citizen developers by facilitating them to design and create their own bespoke homes for themselves in the city.

The Lord Mayor said ahead of the event: “I am delighted that Dublin City Council is introducing the Dublin House project as another initiative to encourage and enable families to live in the city centre. I look forward to seeing this initiative succeed in this historic part of the city.”

Ali Grehan, City Architect, said: “Promoting diverse owner-occupied city centre family- friendly homes is the underlying aspiration of the Dublin House project. This offers households an opportunity to come together as a group to design and develop the site in a way that suits their housing needs today and into the future. Through this innovative project Dublin City Council also wishes to address the under-provision of this type of housing delivery in the city centre and hopes that this can be replicated elsewhere.”