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"June is deeply associated with Áine, the Irish goddess of summer, fertility, love, and sovereignty, whose presence is especially felt around the midsummer season."
Six months on, the renamings of two Dublin parks are still stalled out
Councillors still looking to dename Herzog Park – and to rename Diamond Park after Terence Wheelock – say they’ve seen no progress from central government on regulations to make it an option.
At Labre Park, residents wait for word on what they need, and will get, to protect from landfill gases
This Traveller halting site, like others, was built on a historic landfill. “It seems to be a pattern across the state to build sites on dumps.”
Does the council's site at Camden Yard really have to be offices – and should it be?
As plans for the council to build it out progress, there remains something of a split among councillors as to what would be positive, and what would be possible.
An uilleann piper, with one eye on tradition, takes to the big stages
In the last year, Seán McKeon has appeared around the world with Christy Moore, Elvis Costello, and other famous faces.
Based in the north inner-city, Mums Hub supports parents to get back to paid, and more flexible, work
“For many mothers, the issue is not a lack of ambition, it is wanting to work without being absent from their children’s everyday lives,” says its founder Karla Dragić.
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Cover image for Dublin Inquirer print edition #123
"June is deeply associated with Áine, the Irish goddess of summer, fertility, love, and sovereignty, whose presence is especially felt around the midsummer season."
Youth workers look for new ways to fight grooming of children as young as six by drug gangs
With younger and younger children being targeted, organisations on the ground have to respond, they say.
Council approves plans for Mountjoy Square Park, but there's still confusion on future of playgrounds and sports there
“The play trail won’t work for us,” says Geraldine O’Driscoll, who runs an early years service on Mountjoy Square.
Things To Do: Stand at a bus stop, browse some rare books, curate a magazine, spend the weekend watching movies
Our latest recommendations, and community noticeboard listings.
Department of Foreign Affairs won’t release internal records on ICE deportation flights via Shannon
“If they need to redact security information, then by all means, redact it, but not releasing any documents at all doesn’t instil confidence in the system here.”
It's time for Fingal to take legal action to stop Manna drones flying from Coolmine base, councillor says
The council rejected a planning application for the base, but that hasn't stopped the company, which says it is still flying and "considering the next steps available to us".
Due to delays, council’s district heating project wasn’t ready to warm Irish Glass Bottle apartments
So instead of being kept cosy with waste heat from the Poolbeg incinerator, the apartments are using heat pumps, the council project manager said Monday.
Despite car-park fee increase, more people taking train from Clonsilla, Irish Rail says
The council increased fees at a car park near the station, and some councillors worried it'd push people to drive into town instead of commuting by train.
In Fingal, council raised rents weeks before telling its tenants what their new rates were
The council had problems with its IT system, which led to the delay, said Paul Carroll, the council’s director of housing.
Through her small Collins Avenue vineyard, a winemaker finds her family roots
It all started with a birthday gift from her son of two grape vines.
A documentary follows the ripples of the 1981 hunger strike to the California prison system
"The Strike" is due to be screened in Dublin, Belfast and Cork this month.
While in Dublin, a journalist offers a talk on using Instagram to document ethnic cleansing in the West Bank
“I try to make things easy for people to see,” says journalist Leila Warah, who focuses on one aspect of life under apartheid in each short video.
Could a promised scheme for stylish shopfronts change O’Connell Street?
To date, Dublin City Council’s shopfront improvement scheme has covered the Liberties, Ballymun and Finglas.
Things To Do: Pin the blame on indie sleaze, visit a bungalow, see the Dead Zoo in blue
Our latest recommendations, and community noticeboard listings.
Risk that more survivors of torture will be denied asylum in Ireland, as a vital service is frozen
While the pace of the asylum process has picked up for many applicants, the services helping them to make their cases have lacked the resourcing to keep up.
Council investigates chemical "attacks" on beach grass in Balbriggan
“It is not harmless behaviour – it is the premeditated, attempted destruction of a key environmental asset.”
From the Archive
AI is not just coming to newsrooms in Ireland, it’s already here
“I'd be amazed if it’s not used in some form everywhere now,” says Michael Marsh, the editor in chief for Reach Plc in Ireland.
Exhibition showcases works by Liberties painter Valerie Gannon
Portraits, self-portraits, highly abstract renderings of cityscapes, recollections of sights at Dublin Airport, and much more.
In radio in Ireland, the “accent ceiling” persists
On volunteer-run community radio, there’s room for people with all kinds of accents – but it’s rare to move beyond that.
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Waited for a bus in Dublin and it never showed up? Please tell us.
We’ve built a No-Show Bus Tracker to help document the scale and details of the problems of ghost buses and cancelled buses.
Here it is: our new cycle collision tracker
We hope you’ll use it to report hazards, near collisions, and collisions. Hopefully, over the long-term, this will help make cycling safer – and get more people out of cars and onto bikes.
Will You Draw Your Dublin Neighbourhood for Us?
This online tool lets you map your area’s boundaries, save your version, and see what others have drawn for the same area.
Introducing: A Tracker Where You Can Check How Your Councillors Have Voted
We’re very pleased to be launching Counciltracker.ie today, which will let you quickly and easily see what issues your local councillors have been voting on, and how.