With local elections coming in May, some councillors say they won’t be running again – the supposedly part-time role is just too much to juggle, in addition to a day job and a family life.

That idea appears to be based on a misuse of statistics by Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy, which was further distorted in the media.

Post-it notes with feedback on a vision for the future of Dorset Street show mixed feelings around the neighbourhood.

Members of the same family have lived in this iconic building, or earlier incarnations of it, in Temple Bar since the 1600s.

The Residential Tenancies Board now offers accreditation to landlords if they volunteer for a day-long training and test. Some say it should be compulsory.

The Player Wills site has been sitting vacant for years, but there’s an effort underway to get Dublin City Council to take it over and develop cost-rental and affordable housing on it.

They are often gated, and offer no routes for pedestrians to cut through to get where they’re going. Developers say that’s for security reasons, others say it divides the city.

Patrick Nelis visits the Residential Tenancies Board most days, sometimes twice a day, to argue cases for tenants. He didn’t always do this. He used to work with horses.

Director Bertie Brosnan takes a candid look at the downsides of celebrity in this “behind-the-scenes featurette”, writes Luke Maxwell.

The collective is mostly staff members who are artists, and professional artists with links to Connolly Hospital.

Allchival has over the past year focused on extracting forgotten threads of Irish musical history through reissues.

The alternative media collective intends to put on events over the next few months to celebrate its legacy.

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.

Bottles in the post to retirees of some distilleries have fed rumours of pensions paid in the golden stuff. There’s some history behind the myth.

“Batter man or something. I don’t know what they call me.”

Dim sum chef Li Xiu makes about 400 dumplings a day. Each month, she teaches others how.

Tequeños are similar to cheese sticks. Luis Jorquera and Saul Rondon are experimenting with some extra heat, too.

Banning “if-and-when” contacts would be one major step to take.

The report proposes the establishment of a new independent Corporate Crime Agency with its own statutory mandate to investigate corporate offences, writes a UCD law lecturer.

If Shannon is the obvious fulcrum of Irish collusion with Saudi human rights abuses, Dublin’s financial services may be a less obvious, but no less important, one, writes a UCD political economy lecturer.

Michael D Higgins may have won the race to the Áras, but Peter Casey took the podium in the media, garnering the most coverage of any candidate, writes a media analyst and DCU researcher.