“The USB key is a couple of different things,” says Michelle Doyle of the Repeater collective. It’s a portable exhibition and a piece of artwork in itself.
“It’s a great hobby,” says John Thompson, a member of the East Wall club. “And you have to have a bit of banter. Some people can’t take it. Me, I cry.”
Waste management was high on the list of issues our readers told us they’d like to hear candidates running in May’s local election talk about tackling.
First challenge for this year’s Finglas Maypole Festival? Find a maypole, say those behind the push to bring the historical celebration back to the urban village.
When we asked readers what they wanted candidates running for Dublin City Council to talk about, dereliction and vacancy were among the top-10 most-mentioned issues.
The ACCES team, which provides care to homeless people with severe mental illness, stopped taking referrals in July last year. It’s not clear whether it’s started again.
An advert for the site, vacant for years, says a feasibility study displays “the potential for a student accommodation scheme comprising 285 bed spaces”.
A group in the northern suburb say they’ve a real need for a community centre – so people have somewhere to meet, so they can build an identity for the place.
