The plan envisions a cycle lane buffered from traffic by a line of parked cars. How would people get from the footpath to their cars? some ask.

Launched in 2012, it was meant to draw tourists from the city centre west into the Liberties and Kilmainham, but some councillors and route-residents say it hasn’t had much of an impact.

The site has been sold to an unknown buyer, the brothers have been moved out, and the school is due to close in June. What then? local residents and councillors worry. Will it sit vacant for years?

Some councillors have long wanted the room in the old Rathmines Town Hall opened up for wider use.

Of the 46 derelict sites listed almost three and a half years ago on Dublin City Council’s register, 18 are still on the list.

Most of the complaints to the council since the beginning of 2017 are still being looked into, and less than a quarter of the properties are back under long-term leases.

If they’re going to make an impact, they should be focused on the issue full-time – and not just be existing staff members now endowed with an extra title, says Francis Doherty, of Peter McVerry Trust.

Thousands have been wiped off it, and thousands more have been moved to a different list. The number actually getting council-owned homes remains tiny.

On Golden Lane, the gallery of the macabre and erotic will share a space with the restaurant Feast. The proprietors have a slew of ideas for collaborations mixing food and art.

Amy Redmond uses acting and creative writing to help adults with mental-health issues.

Dublin used to have a civic museum on South William Street, but it closed for renovations 15 years ago and has never reopened.

“I can say wholeheartedly, and with some embarrassment, that I wasted my time fretting over whether Black ’47 is all it was made out to be. It’s a special kind of picture for many reasons.”

Earlier this summer, Fianna Fáil released a set of proposals for supporting quality newspaper journalism. But if newspapers are going to survive, they’re going to have to save themselves, rather than counting on the government.

When talk turns to the health of Ireland’s media, national publications and websites generally sop up much of the attention. But how are local and regional publications faring?

In his memoir, Seamus Kelly – founder of the Ballymun Concrete News – sets about convincing journalists and publishers of the need for positive news. It’s a hard sell, right now.

The extent of the government’s use of paid-for “articles” to spread its messages about Ireland 2040 and other policies is made clear in dozens of documents released by the Department of the Taoiseach.

It’s trying to kit out the premises in a way that emphasizes a zero-waste and packaging-free approach, says Sam Toland.

Romica Stingaciu stands for a few moments in the doorway of his bakery in Coolmine Industrial Estate and breathes in the cold damp air before stepping back inside, into a muggy atmosphere of rising dough and preheated ovens.

Methods of serving periwinkles have changed over time. Traditionally, though, they are boiled in seawater and the fleshy meat is pulled out with a pin.

Several pubs across the city have rolled out these smaller glasses in the past few years, trying to match strength or price and quantity. 

Is it a Trojan horse for privatisation and cutbacks, or a panacea for the city’s ailing transport network? DIT transport-planning lecturer David O’Connor looks at the debate around the proposed changes.

Other cities are waking up to the connection between tech growth, inequality, and housing – and looking at how companies can step up to help.

A reader asks whether the hairstyle she wants to wear would be cultural appropriation. Emma has some advice.

“Without empathy, thousands of our fellow citizens who are homeless will become irretrievably, permanently other. But they are not other.”