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RESIDENTS LIVING BESIDE a large student accommodation development site in Dublin city have complained about noise levels in the mornings and evenings and a surge in the rats population around their homes.
Residents of the Whitefriar Gardens council estate, which is directly across the road from the Aungier Street development, held a protest outside the site earlier this week. When finished the site, which is owned by Scape, a private student housing developer, will contain a 300-bed complex and a number of retail spaces.
One resident, Myles Kenny told TheJournal.ie that the noise levels have become a nuisance for him and his neighbours, particular those with young children.
“I live just there [with a window facing the site] and my neighbour has an autistic child and there were two lights shining on the site for about six months, they had to put black bags on the windows,” he said.
Kenny said residents can regularly hear noise on the site from 7.30 and sometimes the contractors get special permission to start earlier.
“It’s very disruptive for us and for kids as well if it’s in the evening and they’re in bed.”
He said they had a meeting with the contractors to express their frustration about the noise, and other issues like access to footpaths and an increase in the rat population in the area.
“The flats are full of rats since [work began]. This place here was idle for about three or four years and it built up an awful amount of rats in it because the grass was 12 feet high and it was just rubble and everything. When they came in and cleared it the rats obviously spread and they’re in the flats now,” he explained.
“You’d get the odd one before around the bins but since this has happened we’ve seen awn awful amount of rats in the flats.
“It’s nearly an occurrence every second day that someone sees one now on the landings or near the bins. The council built something to keep them out of the bins but they still get in. It’s just a danger with the kids having rats around.”
Scape living, a UK based company, has 3,000 student rooms in London, with developments in Australia and plans for a large-scale complex in Boston.
The plans for the development include 300 student ensuite student rooms with a gym, recreation areas and roof gardens in the complex. Five retain units will also be included.
Permission for the development was initially refused by Dublin City Council in April 2016.
This was appealed to An Bord Pleaneala and permission was granted in in November the same year with a number of conditions including the archaeological excavation of the site.
A spokesperson for Scape declined to comment on local resident complaints.
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Now, let’s put our heads together and come up with some angle to blame Trump for this.
@John Campbell: well the north koreans obviously have zero respect for trump otherwise they wouldn’t do the likes of this after the empty threats he made a few weeks back, so not blaming him he’s nothing as far as they’re concerned obviously.
@John Campbell: Trump didn’t give Kim a reach around.
@John Campbell: His incessant provication of a lunatic? Wasn’t very difficult really…
@Philip Mc dermott: the regime have no respect for anyone including it’s own people….
@Tomás O’Loughlin: Obamas pandering did so much more
@John Campbell: the same people who will vote in the next election for the same parties who put the working people of Ireland up to their eyes in depth.
@Pat Troy: Good man Pat. You may be out of your “debt” here.
@John Campbell: John, have you ever seen two circus clown trying to out to each other for the crowds attention and approval.?
@John Campbell: Best thing to do is take the nuclear buttons away from Trump
@John Campbell: well Kim says it’s in response to USA and South Korean joint military exercises close by. That is not mentioned in this article. Is it true? If it is not then N Korea are being provocative. If it’s true then they are being defensive. Who knows?
@Bridget O’Hanlon:
But by the same logic it could be argued that the US and South Korea were acting defensively by holding joint military exercises following the provocation of previous illegal NK missile launches and open threats to launch a nuclear attack on US territory.
Either way I think it’s just two crazy egomaniacs not wanting to back down, but hopefully they have enough sensible people around them to avoid full escalation.
and whatever about the US and South Korea, this test is most definitely a serious provocation of Japan.
@Avina Laaf: yes, Avina, and so it goes on and on. Very frightening
Surely flying a missile over another country/in their airspace is an act of war??
@Gráinne Rafferty: alright warmonger, calm down.
@Free comment ratings: Surely the person launching missiles over foreign airspace is the warmonger…
@Malachi: ___Or, the person who felt hard done by in the past; as in when the US carpet bombed North Korea.
@George Hogan:
*After NK attacked and invaded South Korea.
There, fixed that for you.
@George Hogan: Carpet bombing is undoubtedly wrong, but you don’t get to feel “hard done by” as a regime that has invaded its neighbours and starved millions to death.
Are you telling me launching missiles into foreign airspace isn’t an act of aggression from NK? Does US carpet bombing almost 70 years ago excuse this behaviour?
@Free comment ratings: if ww3 starts im blaming her !
@Malachi: shut up you terrorist supporter
@Malachi: source ?
@Gráinne Rafferty: maybe it’s was just an empty tin box?
@Joe O’riordan: Any history book? Jeez
@Joe O’riordan: For what? You’ll have to be more specific.
Focain amadáin! Le cúnamh Dé ní bheidh sé fíor!
Dúr ar fad. Tá an domhan ar mire.
@TheJournalAsGaeilge: What ?
@Shane Freeney: Google translate
@TheJournalAsGaeilge: Totally.
@TheJournalAsGaeilge: Cataha dhuine rud eagan a dheanamh fhaoih na Commie Kim’s
@Shane Freeney: Téigh go dtí diabhal. Gall Sasanach.
@TheJournalAsGaeilge: Agus thaw an green egg tan-ye’ve.
@TheJournalAsGaeilge: you better believe 99% of Journal readers can’t read Irish and that includes me too!
Time to break out the iodine tablets.
Here we go…. #WW3
@Conor Glancy: ww2.5
I wouldn’t be buying a Hyundai, Kia, Samsung etc anytime soon, spare parts could be about to become scarce.
@Jonathan McCoy: I wouldn’t worry too much.They are made out of spare parts to begin with…
Nice knowing you lads!
@James Lyons: It’s been real. Time to put new batteries in the old radio, looks like.
@James Lyons: We can get a few quick pint in before the end
@James Lyons: shut up you drama queen
Japanese news said that it flew over 1200 kms north of the northern most point in Japan not “over” japan. But it was in Japanese territorial waters
But, if your looking at a map, it’s over it!
Why weren’t they shot down?
@Serena Callum: oh yeah instantly respond to an airborne missile
@Serena Callum: oh yeah instantly respond to an airborne missile…
@Serena Callum:
It is illegal under international law to shoot down a test missile unless it poses an immediate threat to inhabited areas.
The US would have been in their rights to shoot down the four missiles planned for Guam as they would constitute a threat to the island but one test missile flying harmlessly overhead is technically fully protected.
@Thought for Food:
These ongoing missile tests are all illegal anyway, so I wouldn’t think normal rules apply. Which court are NK going to bring their case to if Japan had succeeded in shooting it down?
Makes perfect sense in Kim Jong Un’s head I’m sure. He’s pissed off with the US and South Korea about military exercises south of its border so launches a missile in the direction of Japan who are not involved in those same exercises. No doubt some left-leaning, West-hating type will come along shortly and explain it all to us.
@Andrew Eager: Didn’t you hear? It’s alright to launch missiles at foreign countries if you’re an enemy of the US. Or something.
It was launched in the direction of the US west coast! Just had to pass the japs first
This is obviously everybody but Koreas fault
@Paul Maher:
Those damn yanks acting provocatively again……
You’ve gotta love some of the Journal’s left-leaning commenters.
Here we go.
Jesus.
North Korea’ behaviour reminds me of a guy that gets Dutch courage after ten pints of porter…………. He ain’t going to do anything other than get knocked out!
This is not going to go to well.
Its not like it’s the first time….. not sure we should head for the shelters just yet…
@Stuart Doherty: shelter.. you’ve a shelter! Have you space for a few more
@Gerard Doherty: does a pop up tent from Lidl count…?
@Stuart Doherty: Of course. Count me in too. Just the 3 of us now OK. Ever hear of soggy biscuit by any chance?
@Dj: Hang on, I have some iodine tablets at the bottom of the first-aid box. Room for one more?
@Fiona Fitzgerald: I have a paw patrol tent of me own….. sure that’ll save me family
S#its getting real..
Looks like a pencil case!
@gerry fallon: it does! Well spotted, fake news everyone ;) Feic it anyway, now I’ve a dose of the trots after the iodine tablets.
Sur your man is cracked
@Damien O’Cáthail: which fella are you talking about?…..pmsl
Those Ukranian Rocket motors seem to be doing the job for the North Koreans. Was it the old Ukranian govt or the New US backed govt that sold them to Kim under the table?
@Neville Hayes: I would put money on Yanokovich. He was a thieving greedy bast@#$d.
@Neville Hayes:
Ironically, any nuclear weapons used by North Korea will come from American reactors. We can thank Bill Clinton for that.
This regime is becoming very provocative, worrisome!….
@Kate Flaherty: Can always rely on you for some incredible analysis Kate, thanks for sharing.
“2057 GMT (9.57 pm Irish time)”…As a reader I was feeling a bit patronised by that statement, then I realised it’s complete tripe.
@John Carolan: I guess those rockets must fly at 88 mph……
@John Carolan: It’s actually right. GMT is currently 1 hour behind due to not having daylight savings
Far canal. Here we go
Send one back lads
@Trevor Connolly: Fish it out and recycle it.
@john Appleseed:
Not one sane Leader in the World. Power seems to affect their brain.
This could be fun…
So North Korea fire a missile (more than likely with no payload one) over Japan
It more than likely didn’t have a significant payload which is why it broke up into 3.
The issue here is Ego and mistakes.
Nobody wants a war not even the North Koreans- but Kim can’t be seen to loose face-remember this is a guy who can do say what he likes without challenge at home –and has been allowed push the boundaries abroad
The North Koreans took a gamble – fly the missile – defy the Americans
Fly it over Japan- high enough not to cause to much alert but over Japan to defy Japan’s call to disarm.
The problem here is if it goes wrong – the missile goes off course crashes into Japan or South Korea – Kim can’t back down then ego wont let him -Retaliation is the only option
No winners
Erra its grand.Hes just provoking the yanks.Nothing here to worry about,just marking his territory.
@Don O Sullivan: It wasn’t NK territory!
Ho sheet.
How many fish were killed this time, the madness must stop
@iMoan Brutal:
It was pretty scary for a few minutes here this morning, but I could only laugh when I got into work and one of my workers berated the Koreans for not launching the “satellite” closer to 8AM so the morning meetings would be cancelled!
@David O’ Donoghue: Maybe next time, hang in there.
This overgrown little boy needs a lesson. If the Americans could manage to apprehend bin Laden and Husain . Then can get this little fart too. He’s just a little boy playing with people’s life’s .
World War 1 was started by a an assassination of an autocratic despot ,maybe World War 3 can be stopped by the same.
No need to worry about when GOT will be returning then.
This is the start of ww3, no money for military machine if no one to fight
Go in there and stop him. Simple. His support is 400 miles wide but an inch deep. He will crumble at the first sign of any true deterrence. Stop tolerating sh1@head tinpot leaders. North Korea is a nothing country with a nothing military.
@Marcus Massey: you’d probably want to reassess the “nothing military” bit !
@Marcus Massey: At a first glance that might seem logical, NK does have a very low tech military but they have millions of troops when you factor in the reserve forces. They also have thousands of short range rockets locked and loaded on Seoul. If anything were to kick off then millions of South Koreans would be dead in less than half an hour
And that bollix trump ranting lastweek that all was good lol, idiot!!!
@Philip Mc dermott: Good man Phil!
@Philip Mc dermott: Yeah, because the North Koreans are only acting like this because of Trump and not because they’ve always been stark raving mad there.
@Dave Murray: I’m not saying its because of trump at all but he did say lastweek that now the nk’s respected the U.S. and tried to take the credit because of his threats the week before…. well that was a load of bollox.
Relatively simple solution. Shoot down the next missile that enters your airspace and let NK know in advance that this will happen.
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