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.
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.
Vacancy Watch: The site where Clontarf’s tragic Victorian mansion, Redcourt, once stood
Its story reads like a cheap pastiche of Edgar Allan Poe, a century-long streak of tragedy and misfortune, ending in a fire in 2007.
Works to begin in August to make pedestrianisation of Malahide’s New Street permanent, council engineer says
The expected timeline is the 18 months plus the breaks over the summer and winter months, said Shane McMorrow, at a recent council committee meeting.
In Howth, an artist looks to blur the lines between the gallery and the sights on its doorstep
Róise McGagh’s exhibition “sticks and mountains and huge lone birds” is on now at the College Lane Gallery.
Councillors “baffled” by lack of council plans to follow through on revamp of Clonsilla
A year ago, after much work, the council published a plan for how to revitalise the village. “I’m wondering why we all went to the bother, to be honest.”
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Fearing effort to build social homes in Howth will stall, council prepares backup plan
Fingal has been working for years towards building a small number of apartments on a long-vacant site at Tuckett’s Lane.
A senior officer at housing charity Clúid said it wants to sell some social homes privately
But a spokesperson for the charity said the position articulated by its deputy chief operations officer at a council meeting recently is not its current policy.
A man wonders if somewhere in Dublin there are photos of his birth parents
In some parts of Ranelagh, his father was known as Tutty, in others as Pom Pom. She was simply Sheila.
Council pushes clampers to expand their hunt beyond the city centre, into the suburbs
A new contract, with new terms, should kick in from August.
Parents plead for traffic dangers around Harold’s Cross Educate Together National School to be addressed
Changes to improve safety are part of the planning permission, while a walkability audit five years back made recommendations, too.
With no plan for Kilmainham Mill, council’s restoration of it is “in abeyance”
The council bought the mill in 2018, and spent €2 million on stabilisation works. Lately, locals have noticed the project seems to have stalled.
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Documents say asylum law centre was in “unprecedented crisis”. The Legal Aid Board tried to hide this with redactions.
A spokesperson for the board said it redacted accounts that weren’t “evidence-based” and had not tried to “hide or trivialise the scale of any crisis”.
Fingal councillors rezone enough land for 5,000 homes, eating into greenbelt
“I feel like, if I don’t vote [for it], I’m voting against housing. If I do vote, I’m voting against greenbelt.”
Reconsider increase in parking charges at Clonsilla train station, councillors ask
Fingal County Council's "Operations Department has no plans to review or amend the recently adopted Parking Control Bye-Laws", was the response.
Portmarnock pool closed indefinitely due to problems with its roof
“Obviously swimming is a life-saving skill, so unless it is reopened, I don’t know where all those schools are gonna go.”
A new night in Portobello focuses on experimental musicians
Four bands cycled through the stage at the underground candle-lit Bello Bar last Thursday for the first outing of the monthly Off Grid Fusion.
Across the city, parents snatch their kids out of the way of red-light-breaking drivers
Despite years of talk, a promised national strategy on red-light cameras is yet to be published – let alone implemented.
Draft Kylemore masterplan disrespects the city’s oldest Traveller site, say reps
For a start, it shouldn’t allow for up to 15 storeys over the road from the bungalows of Labre Park, says the coordinator of Ballyfermot Travellers Action Project.
What’s the plan for the roll-out of Spencer Dock’s new Dart line and station?
Some residents in the north inner-city are worried about how the new line will impact them, as their homes are very close to the tracks.
For people who miss a letter and lose their place on the social housing list, there may be an appeals process at last
In 2024, 29 percent of housing applications to councils across the country – for 5,626 households – were closed due to the applicant’s failure to communicate.
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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.
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Brushing up: a misunderstood spiderweb sculpture
It’s nothing to do with Marvel’s Spider-Man, says artist Kathleen O’Brien. Its meaning is rooted in the history of its north inner-city neighbourhood.
With sea levels set to rise, should the council allow new homes and offices along the coast?
Dublin City Council is in the midst of writing its new development plan, for 2022–2028, which will include what kind of building should be allowed where.
In Rialto, a romance writer pens her 50th book
Romance writer Daisy Cummins works from her home office in Rialto, where she’s just completed her 50th book for the Mills & Boon publishing franchise.
In Deansgrange Cemetery, a historian excavates the stories of Irishmen who served the Raj
Shabnam Vasisht has sought out and researched the graves and stories of Irishmen buried in a corner of Dublin, who served in the British Army and administration while it governed India.