Frank Gleeson was at only one of the National Transport Authority board’s meetings in the first half of 2018, and a handful of the 12 in 2017.

Six of the city’s 21 libraries don’t have toilets for the public. “I just think it’s mental,” says one library-goer.

“It’s always the people you miss the most, about anything,” Liz Meldon says on a recent return to the place she built a community around, which is gone now.

At a meeting on Monday, councillors discussed a plan to build 107 new apartments in Rathgar, offering free wifi into one of the urban villages in the city’s south-east area, and more.

Eleven people are squeezed into a two-bed owned by Dublin City Council. Meanwhile, there are just three people living in a council-owned five-bed.

Tackling racism, delisting Mercer House, and allowing companion pets were among the issues discussed at a meeting of Dublin City Council’s housing committee.

Sometimes women are blamed for anti-social behaviour, when actually they were suffering domestic violence, says Niamh White of refuge Aoibhneas.

All the listings were around the Liberties, including a whole block on Long’s Place. They weren’t up anymore on Tuesday night.

A young woman searches for her missing son through a miasma of her memories and dreams in director Viko Nikci’s surreal feature film debut, writes Luke Maxwell.

Beautifully written, this book lulls you along like a river on a calm day. That’s not to say it doesn’t have its moments of drama though, writes Daniel Seery.

The Firehouse Film Contest’s organisers want to help filmmakers get over first-time jitters, inhibitions and procrastination – and share their movies with an audience.

There’s an export-licensing system for certain artworks and cultural objects already, and some say this should be extended to antique furniture too.

In recent months, the online publication All the Food launched, as well as the print magazine Char. And there’s more to come.

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?

From a storefront on Dorset Street, Gold Ribbon Bakeshoppe sells traditional Filipino pastries and more.

On the southside of Victoria Quay, customers in this cosy hideaway can pick from a menu of fast-food classics, cooked up about a foot and a half away from where they sit.

The chef at Wasabi adds some unusual ingredients, ones that hint at the journey some of these dishes have taken from Japan through Brazil before arriving here.

Lauren Redmond ditched journalism to make gooey sweet vegan cakes – caramels, sponges, and buns.

There is perhaps nobody as significant to the story of collecting Ireland’s oral folk tradition as Séamus Ennis, who was born a hundred years ago this May.

Addiction is an illness, not a moral decision, and people suffering through it deserve dignity and proper healthcare, writes Anne Buckley.

The Department of Housing’s changes to rules on building heights are yet another attack on local democracy. Maybe they should stop all the meddling and just build some homes, writes a DIT lecturer.

Marjorie Hasler didn’t live to see women vote in a general election for the first time. But she was at the heart of the activism that brought it about.