Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council expects to submit a planning application for the  8km DLR Connector to An Coimisiún Pleanála, the national planning board, in Q3/Q4 this year, council officials have told councillors. Cllr Eoin O'Driscoll (Fine Gael), who represents Stillorgan, said: "The DLR Connector will create a continuous cycling connection from Dundrum through to Dún Laoghaire. For Stillorgan, one of the key pieces is here on the Lower Kilmacud Road, where the existing cycle lane currently comes to an end outside Mount Anville Primary School.

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<article data-history-node-id="448759" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/eight-palestinians-including-mother-and-daughter-killed-attacks-across" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/eight-palestinians-including-mother-and-daughter-killed-attacks-across" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Eight Palestinians, including mother and daughter, killed in attacks across Gaza since dawn</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Eight Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, Al Jazeera reports, citing medical sources.</p> <p>Five people were killed in an Israeli attack on a residential block in Gaza City, one in Beit Lahia and two others succumbed to wounds sustained in previous attacks.</p> <p>Wafa reported earlier that&nbsp;Muhammad Talaat Aqel succumbed to a gunshot wound to his head which he had sustained in an attack days before.</p> <p>Reuters reports that four women were among the five killed in the apartment block attack. Medics and the chuch reported that&nbsp;Maisa Abu Dawoud, and her daughter Mary, were among the victims. The attack reportedly levelled the builing , causing a fire to rip through the debris.</p> <p>"We were asleep and suddenly heard continuous strikes and heavy explosions.The children woke up startled and started running and screaming," witness Ahmed Al-Dahdouh told Reuters.</p> <p>"We ran out and found that our neighbour's house was struck and there were dismembered martyrs, women, men and children.We started to pull them out, they were scattered under the rubble," he said.</p> </div> </div> </article>

It's not the first Dutch-style roundabout in Ireland, but a roundabout on Templeville Road in Dublin is the first Dutch-like design to be retrofitted at an existing busy roundabout. The roundabout is adjacent to Templeogue College, where Templeville Road meets Wainsfort Road and Cypress Grove Road. As reported in 2023, Ireland's first Dutch-style roundabout was opened on Church Fields Link Road in Mulhuddart, Dublin 15.

The Israel FA has hit out at Republic of Ireland manager Heimir Hallgrimsson, insisting his recent comments embody "stupidity, ignorance and hypocrisy".

Data-centre expansion will make it hard to source enough gas to meet demand during extreme cold events, state regulator warns

A young man in his late teens who was cycling was killed at around 8.05pm this evening in the area of Nugentstown, near Kells, Co.Meath. A Garda Press Office spokesperson said: "Gardaí are appealing for witnesses following a fatal hit-and-run road traffic collision at Nugentstown, Kells, Co. Meath, on the evening of Tuesday 25th August 2026. The collision involving a van and a bicycle occurred at approximately 8:05pm."

Concerns are growing as essential work to upgrade the town’s underperforming sewage treatment plant will not now take place before 2030

Judge says minister acted lawfully in restricting the hunting of pintail, pochard, scaup and goldeneye ducks

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An investigation is under way after hundreds of fish were found dead in the Tolka River near Damastown in Dublin.

Dublin City Council plans to provide two-way cycling on Chapelizod Hill Road, linking Ballyfermot and Chapelizod and wider planned cycle routes in the area. The short section of route would help link part of the Liffey Valley to City Centre BusConnects Scheme, which is under construction, to existing and planned routes around Chapelizod. The project would include a two-way cycle path along the current short one-way section of the road, and a cycle path in the westbound direction along most of the road from the one-way section to Kylemore Road.

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Concern is growing in Irish universities over a high rate of refusal of study visas to students in Gaza who are due to take up college scholarships in Ireland this September.

<article data-history-node-id="445042" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinian-woman-delivers-stillborn-baby-israeli-soldiers-delay" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinian-woman-delivers-stillborn-baby-israeli-soldiers-delay" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Palestinian woman delivers stillborn baby as Israeli soldiers delay ambulance at West Bank checkpoint</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>A Palestinian woman delivered a stillborn baby in an ambulance after the vehicle was delayed by Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank on Monday.</p> <p>The 28-year-old woman was six months pregnant and unconscious when medics collected her from her home in the village of Qaryout, south of the city of Nablus, Palestinian medic Bashar Qaryouti told AFP.</p> <p>"She was suffering from very heavy bleeding and her condition was extremely critical," Qaryouti said.</p> <p>The entrance to one nearby village was closed, forcing the ambulance to take dirt tracks through olive groves before reaching the Awarta checkpoint, where a gate was shut, and a long queue of vehicles had formed.</p> <p>Israeli soldiers emerged from a nearby watchtower and ordered Qaryouti to turn off the ambulance's power.</p> <p>Qaryouti said he explained that the vehicle's medical equipment was being used to keep a patient alive, but they forced him to switch the vehicle off.</p> <p>As the ambulance remained stranded, the woman's condition worsened, and the nurse accompanying her was forced to deliver the baby inside the vehicle.</p> <p>"The baby was stillborn," he said.</p> <p>After waiting for more than 30 minutes, the soldiers returned the crew's identity cards and allowed the ambulance to continue.</p> <p>When they reached the hospital "the mother was rushed into surgery to stop the bleeding", Qaryouti said.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Sitka spruce, which originates in North America, is a staple of Coillte forests, but has long been criticised by environmentalists.

Dublin's Dodder Road Lower between Ely's Arch and Orwell Road is to be closed for a week starting on Monday, August 10th, and then permanently made one-way with a two-way cycle path, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council has confirmed. In a project update note on its website, the council said: "Once the one-way system is implemented on Dodder Road Lower, vehicles will no longer be able to access the road from Orwell Road.