Senator Eileen Flynn, the first woman from a Traveller background to make it to Seanad Éireann, was welcomed to her childhood home in Labre Park.

Dublin City Council says it is working through a long list of recommendations to assess whether they should be added to the list of protected structures.

Mistreatment of horses is not a new problem for Dublin City Council. Last year, the council spent €145,276 on euthanising horses which could not be returned or re-homed.

“The fact that I can say, ‘I am now working as an artist’ is not something that I thought I would ever be able to say,” says Sorcha O’Higgins.

“The only barrier to joining CATU is that you can’t be a landlord” says Rachel Kiersey, a member of the union’s communications team.

Dublin-based publishers Swan River Press are bringing the novel, which was banned in 1940s Ireland, back into print for the first time in decades.

“Irish music has been at the forefront of communicating the black Irish experience,” writes Dean Van Nguyen.