From the 20 December 2017 issue

With our friends from Banter, we organised a discussion about the social housing system, and the role it might play in easing the critical shortage of affordable housing in Dublin. If you didn’t make it to the event, you can listen to it here.

A reader says she thinks that young people of African descent in Ireland should know more about their shared Pan-African heritage. What’s the path to that? she asks. Emma has advice.

At recent meetings in City Hall, councillors discussed the growth in student housing in the Liberties, and Gardaí gave updates on some of what they’ve been doing in the inner city.

An old windmill has dominated the landscape in the Liberties for decades. But what happened to its sails?

Professionals needed. This week’s cartoon from Sarah Woods.

Others say it doesn’t matter what type of organisations are running these new homeless hostels for families, as long as the quality of service is good, and they are well monitored.

Dublin City Council bought the stadium back in 2015 for €3.8 million, and the council plans to redevelop it, but it’s still not certain how much this would cost, or how it will be funded.

It can be a hassle to chase down whether a landlord does actually sell up when they say they plan to. So let us check for you.

Earlier this year, a group of 18 donors funded the first annual €1,000 Spark Grant, meant to support a freelance journalist in doing a great, in-depth, public-interest story. Now they’ve decided who they’re giving it to.

Residents across the north-east inner city have seen a few new murals lately, with more to come: €80,000 has been set aside by Dublin City Council.

So far, cyclists have marked 62 collisions with Luas tracks on our Cycle Collision tracker. These accidents are clustered in three areas in the city centre.

Ion Anghel lugs a generator down the quays each morning, to power his coffee business. But he really wishes he didn’t have to – that the council would provide him with a power source instead.