Things To Do: Search for UFOs, admire the vampires, reluctantly return to the Golden Age of Hong Kong cinema
Our latest recommendations, and community noticeboard listings.
Things To Do: Search for UFOs, admire the vampires, reluctantly return to the Golden Age of Hong Kong cinema
Our latest recommendations, and community noticeboard listings.
Council plans new temporary flood defences for Clontarf
It has been working, for more than a decade, on plans for more permanent flood defences. But those aren’t built yet.
Santry needs more than just more apartments, residents say, objecting to rezoning of Shanowen Lands
Members of Santry Forum say they want a plan for the area that includes “social infrastructure” too. And they've worked up their own proposal.
Short-notice postponement of citizenship ceremony upended some people's plans. Could it have been avoided?
During Covid-19, such ceremonies were held online.
In Loughshinny, council wants people to walk to planned new playground, but says building good footpaths isn’t feasible
“How are kids meant to walk to a playground if it’s cut off?” asks Robert Kelly, the chairperson of the Lougshinny Community Association.
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A look at Dublin Inquirer's finances
We ask people to subscribe to help us do what we do, so it feels fair to tell you all where we are financially, and what we'd spend that subscription income on.
Ballymun-Finglas councillors want answers on figures suggesting low council investment in their area
The area has been allocated just 2 percent of the city’s capital spend on projects outside of housing, over the next three years, according to council figures.
Father of disabled child refused access to a disabled car parking spot in his complex
He has a blue badge, he has offered to pay, but as a social tenant, he is shut out.
Despite fine words, some young people still face homelessness when leaving state care
“You’re building the next generation of long-term homeless,” says one charity official.
When his daughter’s fiancé hasn't heard of Italia ‘90, a Marino father senses something is off
So goes Michael J. Hartnett’s new play, which had a rehearsal reading this week at the Five Lamps Arts Festival.
Residents with EVs told to remove their on-street electric car chargers, or else
The Department of Transport says it’s working on a home-charging solution for those who don’t have driveways.
Council managers push forward with plan for a smaller Bull Island Discovery Centre
A scaled-down version is being looked at, said council Chief Executive Richard Shakespeare on Monday.
Things To Do: Acquire a cap, appreciate some video games, spin the water-based songs
Our latest recommendations, and community noticeboard listings.
Ballymun and Finglas to get the least council investment in projects in the coming years
The area has been allocated just 2 percent of the pot of capital funding – not including housing – over the next three years.
Council should look, again, at London-style system to force companies to use safer trucks in the city, councillors urge
The death of Johnny Santos Xavier De Abreu while cycling in the city recently was a reminder of the risk posed by heavy goods vehicles, a motion said.
A woman and her child signed up for “voluntary return” – a homeless shelter in Mauritius was their option
She and her young son sought asylum in Ireland. But besides a brief victory at the court, their case has passed through a carousel of rejections.
Fingal councillors vote to pause planned rent increase – but it’s unlikely to happen
“The setting of differential rents is an Executive Function,” said the council’s director of housing. Meaning it’s not the councillors’ job.
Luke: New film The Three Urns is “puzzling, haphazard, funny ha-ha, funny peculiar, and messy”
“The head struggles to make sense of it all, but the heart beats along with every haphazard second of it.”
Councillors dig into plan for €3.88 billion in spending on projects in the city
Flagship projects include a new HQ for Dublin City Council, the redevelopment of Dalymount Park, and the refurbishment of the Fruit and Vegetable Market.
Fingal moves on plans to plug in play areas in Loughshinny and Portrane
A 2023 audit identified gaps where playgrounds were needed, and the council’s working to fill some of those in.
Council breaks promise, again, of new homes for Travellers at Labre Park
After 30 years, the finish line for the project was supposed to be close. The cost of the u-turn will be even greater homelessness, said the coordinator of Ballyfermot Traveller Action Project.
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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.
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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.