A community group are calling for €40 million in developer contributions to be spent in their area, which they say lacks services and amenities.
The Drimnagh Residents' Community Group and Dynamic Drimnagh say the suburb has been "potholed" between three Dublin City Council plans for regenerating areas - meaning very little in the way of services and amenities will be built.
In an email to local Councillors, Patricia Ryan said on behalf of the community group that it has been "gut-wrenching" to see the area starved of services that "should be rightfully provided to them" over the past two decades.
The group want to see an "intergenerational multi-purpose civic/sports centre", independent social housing and a canal village with retail units constructed with the money.
They say the services will be needed for the additional populations the new developments will bring in.
Ms Ryan said: "At the moment we have 12,500 people in Drimnagh...before you know it, we are going to have approximately another six or seven thousand people in the next three years."
"There is no point putting people in without the appropriate services for them."
She added: ""On the North-East side [of Drimnagh] there is little or no services. The Marble Arch pub is closed and it probably won't reopen. So, you have small retail shops on Galtymore Road and Benbulbin Avenue. Other than that, there is no central area."
A common complaint made by members of the group is that they have to leave Drimnagh whenever they need something.
The group estimates there are €40 million in developer contributions going to Dublin City Council which are based on "granted developments and proposed developments on Davitt Road, Carriglea and Concorde on the Drimnagh side of the Naas Road, Teabrook Ltd in the heart of Keeper Road and on the periphery of Glenview Industrial Estate, Brickfield House and now Harberton Bridge."
The email was received positively by two Councillors, both of whom promised to raise a motion at their next area committee meetings.
Sinn Fein Councilllor Daithi Doolan thanked Ms Ryan for work before adding he will bring a motion to the next South Central Area Committee meeting on the matter.
He wrote: "I can assure you I will be tabling a motion to this effect at the February meeting of SCAC.
"I will be working with other councillors to get maximum support for this. This is an issue that deserves cross party support."
Green Councillor For Kimmage-Rathmines Carolyn Moore added that the same motion will be brought to the South East Area Committee.
She wrote: "I’d be happy to coordinate with Cllr Doolan to make sure the same motion is tabled at the South East Area committee by myself and Cllrs Dunne, Feeney, Freehill, Conroy and Deacy if they’re happy for that to be put forward."
Dublin Live contacted Dublin City Council about the issues raised in this article but a response was not forthcoming at the time of publication.
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