The mystery of the man, the black stuff, and the chimney stack
"To be honest I have not encountered a case like this in seventeen years."
The mystery of the man, the black stuff, and the chimney stack
"To be honest I have not encountered a case like this in seventeen years."
In a north-inner city complex, parents push back on strict rules for kids playing in the courtyard
Some of the other residents in the complex just off Hill Street – and a neighbouring one – complain about the noise of the playing children.
Young people in prison 50% more likely to spend their days confined to their cells
Staying there 19 to 23 hours a day does psychological harm, and also means they miss out on opportunities for education and work.
Council okays plan for a new sports pitch at, but not solely for, a school in the Liberties
Plans show the play area at St James's National School on Basin View converted into an all-weather pitch, with floodlights, that can be used by local teams and community groups seven days a week.
Dean: On Blimp’s neon-lit electric wonderland
The Dublin DJ and producer’s new album “Our Wires”, is “likely to be my Irish electronica release of the year”.
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Things To Do: Things to eat, find out if you're normal, Maud Gonne's rebel picnic, and Sunday afternoon poetry
Our latest recommendations, and community noticeboard listings.
How Brazilian cuts of meat found a place in Dublin butcher shops
"They're saying, 'No, this part!' And we're like, 'Oh yeah, we can do that for you!'"
They're not undocumented. But they can't prove it right now.
There are delays with asylum-card renewals, which "are currently taking longer than normal to process”, said a spokesperson with the Department of Justice. They did not say how big the backlog was.
In Blanchardstown, another data centre looks to pipe hot water to heat nearby buildings
It's the latest district heating project to be proposed in the Dublin area. This one is focused on plugging in neighbouring industrial buildings.
Join us for a family table quiz
Gather up to six players – at least one of whom should be 12 or under – and join us for an afternoon of low-impact, high-fun quizzing.
Drug-policy book club, anyone?
We'll read and discuss the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Drugs Use's report, which recommends decriminalisation of possession of drugs for personal use.
Now that he can do it, DAA has formally written to the minister asking him to lift the Dublin Airport passenger cap
The company's application includes preliminary results of its assessments of the environmental impacts of raising the cap from 32 million to 40 million passengers per year.
Solar farm big enough to power 25,000 homes planned for fields in north county Dublin
The roll-out of renewable energy generation is needs to be accelerated to hit Climate Action Plan targets, according to a report from the Climate Change Advisory Council.
Court judgment clears way for Dublin City Council to proceed with new parking-enforcement contract – for now
Longtime city clampers DSPS, after losing a competition for the council's new contract to rival APCOA, had challenged that decision in court. It's not over yet.
New play unfolds in a playground, decades after a Dublin housing estate riot
"Thérèse" is a story about grief, classism, womanhood, generational trauma, and the weight of a life watching injustices stack up on top of each other.
As Tusla struggles with shortage of places for kids, a mostly-empty home had to stop taking children because of staffing problems
“There was not sufficient experience or stability among the team to provide safe and effective care,” says the Tusla inspection report.
Things To Do: Celebrate the horse, hold frame, reminisce about a chipper
Our latest recommendations, and community noticeboard listings.
Council to look at plugging community facilities in Ringsend into district heating system early in roll-out
The focus of talk to date has been of the need for the big private and public-sector anchor tenants in the Docklands, to support viability.
Above Merrion Square, two artists are hoarding the Revenue Commissioners' archive
Their exhibition, Only Handle It Once runs, in the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland until 30 August.
Frustrated with Dublin's glitchy app for public transport, a guy opts to build his own
A spokesperson for the National Transport Authority said that they are considering ways to improve their own tool.
An online, and unfunded, encyclopaedia of Dublin's architectural history celebrates 30 years
Started in 1996, the site – now known as Archiseek – specialises in "unbuilt Irish architectural proposals and lost buildings, giving the public a rare look at 'the Ireland that almost was'", says founder Paul Clerkin.
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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.