A report from DCC's Halloween working group - made up of representatives from the public domain, community development and housing departments along with gardaí - told councillors it was using "authorised drone flights" to monitor the city on an ongoing basis. "This has proven effective in identifying large-scale storage in previous years," it said. Any identified material will be removed by the group in co-ordination with gardaí, with the public encouraged to report suspected stockpiling to the council.
3 August 2025 Today, I have to do something a bit exciting. I'm going to a food distribution point for the first time, what I call the death lottery. I'm leaving in about 30 minutes. I've said goodbye to my family and hugged them all. You never know. Why risk walking toward your own death? It's not by choice. For many days now each of us has been living on a single pita bread and a bowl of lentil soup per day. That's it.