Things To Do: Acknowledge editorial design, answer the call of the corncrake, hear cries from a market
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Things To Do: Acknowledge editorial design, answer the call of the corncrake, hear cries from a market
Our latest recommendations, and community noticeboard listings.
Fingal councillors pull back from deal with Glenveagh, over creche space
To avoid any risk that the creche space in a housing scheme at Mooretown lies vacant, councillors want the developer to give it to the council once built. Council officials warned against the condition.
Progress on Clonskeagh to Charlemont active travel route
On Saturday, a contractor started upgrading a cycle lanes at a junction along the route. The whole scheme is due to be delivered by 2029.
In past year, there have been 23 xenophobic attacks on social homes being prepped for letting, suggest figures
Each attack has added to the cost, and time, that it takes to move a household in, said a council official.
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Portobello Plaza should be fully open again from next spring, council official says
Work has been chipping away but much of the space will remain fenced off until early next year, to let new plants grow in.
Outside Leinster House, mothers cry out for better addiction supports for their families
The vigil followed the deaths of Philip and Kim English and their sons, Callum, 12, and Jayden, nine, who were killed in an arson attack on their Waterford home on 13 October.
Nine out of ten surveyed back redevelopment of Clontarf Pier
A council manager has said that after improved flood defences and a new water main are put in at the Clontarf Promenade "would seem like a perfect opportunity to reimagine the area".
Things To Do: Listen to medieval hyperpop, visit a waiting room, share poems with the winter deity, read her papers
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Against a backdrop of policy shifts, Ukrainian refugee children embrace their Irish lives
Ireland is the place they started school, joined sports clubs – yet their parents worry about how changes to citizenship eligibility may haunt their future.
A tenant complained about a housemate charging an e-bike in the living room – and they all got an eviction notice
While tenant complaints about the e-bike, and also noise, were referred to in the notice to quit, that was to illustrate the breakdown between the occupants at the property, said the landlord's agent to the tenant.
The latest version of LDA's big plans in the Liberties give greater attention to gaps in Thomas Street
As it stands, Pear Tree Crossing would see more than 700 new homes, businesses, cultural and community facilities, creches, and an acre of open space.
In Stoneybatter, residents seek closer consideration of "home zones" as a parking solution
In other jurisdictions, residents count many upsides from such a streetscape design, but maybe not those intended in this case.
After small top-up of community space, councillors agree plan for housing on "spine site" in Darndale
The plan as voted through has 82 social homes, and a small "community hub".
Once used for Jim Larkin's political rallies and now, maybe, to become homes
Also known as Dolphin House and Bottler’s Hall, Bottlemaker’s Hall was built as a recreational hall by the Irish Glass Bottle Company in 1915.
Could a social enterprise turn the city's horse manure into black gold?
After all, illegal dumping of stable bedding in the city is "a classic, like, kind of misallocation of resources", said Peadar Lynch, who manages the Chery Orchard Community Garden.
Talk of "ring-fencing" income from possible Dublin tourist levy leads to question: for what and where?
Should the money be set aside for, say, more maintenance for council housing citywide? Or for tourist-y things in tourist-y areas? Or something else?
How to decriminalise drugs, and how not to: former US police chief shares lessons learned with Irish seminar
The Joint Committee on Drugs Use in June 2026 called for Section 3 of the Misuse of Drugs Act to be repealed – which it said would decriminalise simple possession of drugs for personal use.
Will proposed penalties change cost-benefit balance of illegal short-term letting in Dublin?
The government published the details of its new Short-Term Letting and Tourism Bill last Friday.
Dean: Gurriers are punk
And in their recent album, Nobody’s Coming to Save You, “The corruption of human morality is a constant theme.”
Things To Do: Defy the orders of Pope Pius XI, attend multiple symposia, follow a pair of curators into a pub
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City centre taskforce
Robert Watt's not going to be Tsar of Dublin, city councillors say
They're set to back the creation of a special purpose vehicle he's been picked to head, which is meant to play a major role in regenerating the city centre – but how major is in dispute.
Maybe people shouldn't be able to collect social welfare at GPO, Arnotts lobbies
The company behind the Henry Street department store raised the idea with the man in charge of the regeneration of the city centre, returns show.
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.
The council has a new plan to regenerate the city centre “street by street”
“We should be able to try these big things and not be afraid of failure,” says Social Democrats Councillor Cian Farrell, who has spearheaded the initiative.
From the Archive
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.