Donal Corrigan is a city reporter for Dublin Inquirer. He covers transport, and the southside. To get in contact with him, you can email him on donal@dublininquirer.com
“It is now time to bring Violet Gibson into the public’s eye and give her rightful place in the history of Irish women,” said independent Councillor Mannix Flynn’s motion to the South East Area Committee on Monday.
“My dad and his friends formed a football team called the Dorset Boys in the seventies,” says Patrick Osborne. This was an inspiration for his book, Baxter’s Boys.
In The Connacht Peep Show, by The Deadlians, the poems of Seumas O’Kelly are set to melodies. “His poems are a bit melancholic but there is a bit of humour in them,” says singer Sean Fitzgerald.
“Your ideas are very very good and I will definitely be looking at them more,” said Dublin City Council Senior Engineer Neil O’Donoghue to one local resident.
“The same thing could happen again. There is absolutely no reason why it wouldn’t,” says James Larkin, who commutes by bike past the spot near the new children’s hospital building site.
Under the deal, Glenveagh would have built more than 850 homes and sold half on the private market, while selling the other half back to the council for social and “affordable purchase” homes.
The project, On Chorus, started on 16 November and runs through to 29 November. “It’s a way of connecting people during a time where we have to be distant,” says creator Christopher Steenson.
