Things To Do: Read all about Vincent Browne, enjoy some avant-garde Japanese tap dancing, discover a 1970s underground queer helpline, visit Rush in 1926
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Things To Do: Read all about Vincent Browne, enjoy some avant-garde Japanese tap dancing, discover a 1970s underground queer helpline, visit Rush in 1926
Our latest recommendations, and community noticeboard listings.
To counter AI, an illustrator in Balbriggan offers to draw posters for barter
Lauren Fernandes noticed menus and flyers all over with the same sterile look, and thought: what if she could help out small businesses which can't afford creative work, usually?
Projected cost of Dublin District Heating Project rises to more than €130 million
It would use extra heat from the Poolbeg rubbish incinerator to warm water and send it through pipes underground, into buildings in the city, to keep homes and offices cosy without burning additional fossil fuels.
Councillors back proposal to honour "legendary footballer" Ciarán Kilkenny in Dublin 15
"He's a local lad here from Carpenterstown, he's a local schoolteacher," said Fine Gael Councillor Ted Leddy, who proposed the motion. "A mural or something like that would be very appropriate."
Budget for tearoom in Merrion Square shot up, reaching €7.5 million
The council says it'll be open late this year, or early next.
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Cover image for Dublin Inquirer print edition #126
"In the illustration, we can see Micheál Martin and Simon Harris bow before the behemoth that is Big Tech."
What to do with the horses of Darndale?
Grazing in public parks means other uses are being pushed out, and adding momentum to calls for an equine centre and stable club to properly support horse culture in the area.
Time to iron out details for how to allow EV charging across footpaths, councillors agree
Like, what'll be the route to dig up the footpath and lay down a wire?
Irish National Opera buys old church on Abbey Street, to turn it into a performing arts space
The chapel on the ground floor is too small for a theatre “but it's the kind of place where you could have recitals, a piano player or string quartet”, says Diego Fasciati, the executive director.
To tackle dereliction, the council is pushing to broaden what it includes
Dublin City Council's planning committee backed a motion on Monday to call on the Minister for Housing to broaden the legal definition to include long-term vacancy.
New barriers for some people to access homeless accommodation set to take effect in coming months
Some experts worry about the impact of the new rules, especially on more vulnerable households, as they await guidance on the details of how they will be implemented.
Things To Do: Make space, start again, see two students draw 1,000 self-portraits, smell wet ash, biscuits and graves facing east
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Eight years ago, government made it easier to turn old shops and offices into homes. How's it panning out?
More than 10 percent of the notified homes turned into, it seems, holiday lets.
Current Ranelagh post office is set to close, but there's no replacement lined up
An Post has been struggling to find a new contractor in the area, said its spokesperson on Monday. “Even finding a suitable premises has been a huge issue.”
Tusla reported seven companies that run children’s homes to Gardaí over Garda-vetting concerns
“Any organisation that does not rigorously enforce Garda vetting for every adult working with children is failing in its fundamental duty of care," says Terry Dignan, of the Children's Residential and Aftercare Voluntary Association.
Council looks to host pop-up uses in one of its vacant buildings on Capel Street
Reviving 114 to 116 Capel Street is part of the council’s wider effort to meet recommendations around tackling vacancy made by the Dublin City Taskforce, a council spokesperson said.
Council publishes data on nationalities on social-housing list
"We shouldn't be having a shit fight about who is getting the scraps of our housing system," says one researcher.
Questions loom over Department of Justice’s account of long-held policy on citizenship rights of temporary asylum stamps
What actually differs between those fleeing the wars on the edge of Europe in the 1990s, and today?
Dean: The low hiss of Sorcha Richardson’s rustic sound
The musician says her new album, Draw the Outline, brought her “great solace and peace in writing it. I hope it can do the same for whoever needs it.”
Years after whitewater rafting flop, council gives itself until 2030 to make new plan for George's Dock
It'll fill it with water, and decorate it with lights this winter, a council manager said at a recent meeting. But it'll take years to come up with long-term vision.
Waiting list has grown by almost 80% for addiction treatment at Mountjoy since last year
"I think the public do understand that prison isn't addressing the underlying issues for those people who are committing minor offences but can't get the help that they need to stop that cycle."
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AI is not just coming to newsrooms in Ireland, it’s already here
“I'd be amazed if it’s not used in some form everywhere now,” says Michael Marsh, the editor in chief for Reach Plc in Ireland.
Exhibition showcases works by Liberties painter Valerie Gannon
Portraits, self-portraits, highly abstract renderings of cityscapes, recollections of sights at Dublin Airport, and much more.
In radio in Ireland, the “accent ceiling” persists
On volunteer-run community radio, there’s room for people with all kinds of accents – but it’s rare to move beyond that.
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Waited for a bus in Dublin and it never showed up? Please tell us.
We’ve built a No-Show Bus Tracker to help document the scale and details of the problems of ghost buses and cancelled buses.
Here it is: our new cycle collision tracker
We hope you’ll use it to report hazards, near collisions, and collisions. Hopefully, over the long-term, this will help make cycling safer – and get more people out of cars and onto bikes.
Will You Draw Your Dublin Neighbourhood for Us?
This online tool lets you map your area’s boundaries, save your version, and see what others have drawn for the same area.
Introducing: A Tracker Where You Can Check How Your Councillors Have Voted
We’re very pleased to be launching Counciltracker.ie today, which will let you quickly and easily see what issues your local councillors have been voting on, and how.