The appearance of the building and surrounding site are bringing down the area, some councillors say. A representative of the owners says they’ve tried to maintain it.

If Bridgefoot Street seems strangely wide for such a short city-centre road, that’s because it was once destined to be part of something much larger.

Instead of reducing rents to tempt more students, they’ve been going to the council and getting permission to use it for short-term lets and co-living.

They rezoned the site from industrial to residential for an affordable housing proposal. Now, the land’s more valuable and the landowner is looking to sell it.

Asylum seekers say some solicitors they are assigned seem uninterested in fighting their cases. Solicitors say the fees the state pays them are inadequate.

At a recent meeting they heard about how cities in the US and UK have used “community wealth building” strategies, with a view to emulating that here.

These were some of the issues Dublin City Councillors discussed at recent meetings of their South East Area committee and arts and leisure committee.

We hope you’ll tell us, through focus groups and surveys in the coming weeks. And then we’ll try to work together with you to do it.