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Guides and analysis on local information, neighbourhood life and reaching your community.
The programme comes out late, on paper and in places nobody checks. Where to actually look, and why local festivals remain the best way into a neighbourhood.
9 October 2026
A broken streetlight, a pothole, a damaged bin. Whether it gets fixed rarely depends on the problem itself: it depends on how and where you report it.
6 October 2026
Many councils set aside part of the budget for residents to decide. So few people vote that a few hundred votes decide hundreds of thousands of euros.
1 October 2026
They sound like a relic, yet they remain the voice councils listen to most. What they can achieve, what they cannot, and how to get in.
28 September 2026
Getting involved does not mean going into politics or giving up your weekends. There are ways to influence what happens on your street that fit into a spare moment.
23 September 2026