# office-of-public-works - Monday 11 January, 2021
# Park It
# Park It
The Office of Public Works said more sustainable transport options and a safer environment for walkers and cyclists could be provided.
# office-of-public-works - Monday 7 December, 2020
# Closed Gates
# Closed Gates
The OPW had made the move to shut down the side gates of the famous park at weekends.
# office-of-public-works - Thursday 3 December, 2020
# SOLSTICE STREAM
# SOLSTICE STREAM
The neolithic tomb is closed to visitors this winter solstice.
# office-of-public-works - Friday 24 July, 2020
# Tourism
# Tourism
The government hopes this will help to encourage people to take trips within Ireland.
# office-of-public-works - Friday 10 July, 2020
# Traffic
# Traffic
All gates bar one reopen from today after closing in March due to pandemic restrictions.
# office-of-public-works - Friday 5 June, 2020
# Dublin
# Dublin
Many gates in the park were closed in March following the introduction of Covid-19 restrictions.
# office-of-public-works - Friday 14 February, 2020
# Billed Gates
# Billed Gates
The Office of Public Works hopes the gates will be rehung by the end of this year.
# office-of-public-works - Wednesday 25 December, 2019
# Charlie Flanagan
# Charlie Flanagan
The minister wanted to have the deer relocated to a 250-acre estate in Laois.
# office-of-public-works - Saturday 28 September, 2019
# Pulling In The Crowds
# Pulling In The Crowds
Kilkenny, Dublin and Wicklow had the top three most visited attractions last year.
# office-of-public-works - Saturday 7 September, 2019
# OPW
# OPW
The gates were taken down in August 2018 ahead of Pope Francis’s visit to Ireland.
# office-of-public-works - Friday 6 September, 2019
# Doneraile Park
# Doneraile Park
The marksman was paid on a ‘keep-what-you-kill basis’.
# office-of-public-works - Saturday 24 August, 2019
# Data Protection
# Data Protection
The books were banned from sites such as Dublin Castle and Kilmainham Gaol over data privacy concerns.
# office-of-public-works - Friday 26 July, 2019
# In Rude Health
# In Rude Health
The OPW said the piece has been moved into an individual office now after “an objection” to the artwork.
# office-of-public-works - Thursday 25 July, 2019
# Data Confusion
# Data Confusion
The books were banned from sites such as Dublin Castle and Kilmainham Gaol over data privacy concerns.
# office-of-public-works - Tuesday 23 July, 2019
# Data Privacy
# Data Privacy
The books were banned from heritage sites such as Kilmainham Gaol and Dublin Castle.
# office-of-public-works - Sunday 3 February, 2019
# Deery Me
# Deery Me
Annual culls are carried out by the OPW to manage the number of wild deer in the park.
# office-of-public-works - Thursday 22 November, 2018
# Breakdown
# Breakdown
As of 1 November, the OPW had spent €15,754,639.37 on the visit of Pope Francis to Ireland.
# office-of-public-works - Friday 25 May, 2018
# Count Day
# Count Day
In 2015, large crowds congregated in the space for the Marriage Equality count results.
# office-of-public-works - Thursday 4 January, 2018
# Dunbeg Fort
# Dunbeg Fort
The site is precariously placed on a cliff edge.
# office-of-public-works - Sunday 23 July, 2017
# Heritage
# Heritage
The Green Flag Awards recognise parks that are managed in environmentally sustainable ways.
# office-of-public-works - Saturday 1 July, 2017
# Magnificent Seven
# Magnificent Seven
Dozens of heritage sites across the country are giving children under 12 free admission.
# office-of-public-works - Friday 19 May, 2017
# Love The Lee
# Love The Lee
The group Save Cork City is launching the plans this evening.
# office-of-public-works - Saturday 11 February, 2017
# Rotating Ministry
# Rotating Ministry
The TDs flipped a coin last year to decide who would take the first shift as junior minister.
# office-of-public-works - Sunday 5 February, 2017
# Trading Places
# Trading Places
OPW junior minister Sean Canney will be rotating the ministry with Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran.
# office-of-public-works - Friday 3 February, 2017
# Office Of Public Works
# Office Of Public Works
Cork city are to receive €140 million as part of the Drainage Scheme – the biggest one of it’s kind in the history of the state.
# office-of-public-works - Wednesday 25 January, 2017
# Home Sweet Home
# Home Sweet Home
Objections about plans for the site have been made to An Bord Pleanála.
# office-of-public-works - Thursday 26 February, 2015
# Unaccounted For
# Unaccounted For
A top OPW official explained the curious case of the missing artwork in Leinster House.
# office-of-public-works - Friday 7 November, 2014
# The Tide Is High
# The Tide Is High
Met Éireann says it expects gales in coastal areas as well.
# office-of-public-works - Thursday 7 August, 2014
# Storm Damage
# Storm Damage
A senior engineer with Clare Co Council told TheJournal.ie that the council is still waiting for clarification on project proposals from the OPW.
# office-of-public-works - Tuesday 14 January, 2014
# Public Service
# Public Service
Launching new public service reform plans today, the Minister of State Brian Hayes said there has been “a lot done, more to do, to borrow a phrase from the past”.
# office-of-public-works - Monday 25 November, 2013
# Heritage
# Heritage
Minister Brian Hayes stressed today that the businesses will have to be “in keeping with the heritage and with the recreational nature of the sites”.
# office-of-public-works - Monday 29 July, 2013
# Brian Hayes
# Brian Hayes
Minister of State Brian Hayes hopes to have details on every building, every piece of land and every table and chair owned by the State to be online by the beginning of next year.
# office-of-public-works - Friday 12 July, 2013
# Dignitaries
# Dignitaries
The estate in the Phoenix Park has cost the state €39million in operational costs since 2001.
# office-of-public-works - Thursday 4 April, 2013
# Flood Prevention
# Flood Prevention
The site was launched by Minister of State Brian Hayes TD, as part of flood risk management in Ireland.
# office-of-public-works - Friday 22 March, 2013
# Garda Stations
# Garda Stations
Office of Public Works Minister Brian Hayes has announced plans to find other State uses or to sell off the 139 garda stations that have been closed in the past two years.
# office-of-public-works - Friday 23 November, 2012
# Closure
# Closure
No more queues for tribunal reports or the latest CSO stats.
# office-of-public-works - Monday 29 October, 2012
# Phoenix Park 350
# Phoenix Park 350
The pen and ink drawings by the Irish artist Sheelagh Duff are part of a free exhibition in the Phoenix Park until the end of November.
# office-of-public-works - Friday 26 October, 2012
# Garda Stations
# Garda Stations
The Garda Representatives Association said proposed changes will not save money and the service will “go downhill rapidly”.
# office-of-public-works - Tuesday 25 September, 2012
# Flood Insurance
# Flood Insurance
Representatives from the IIF were before the Joint Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht today.
# office-of-public-works - Wednesday 11 July, 2012
# Treetment Required
# Treetment Required
A Dublin South TD has asked the Government what it is doing to save the plane tree.
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