Amy Bond - Dublin InQuirer

In Priorswood, the council has finally begun clearing an industrial-scale illegal dump in a residential neighbourhood

“I was lying in my hospital bed and I just kept thinking, ‘God, please don’t let me die. I want to live to see the dump gone,’” says resident Annette Flanagan.

Eoin Glackin May 2, 2025

textile waste

Council moves to tighten oversight of how old clothes are disposed of in the city

Provisions in a recent tender are a small step, but part of an EU-wide and national effort to do a better job of reusing and recycling textile waste.

Lois Kapila May 2, 2025

Housing

Advocates are pushing for survivors of industrial schools to get priority for social housing

Councillors face tough decisions as vulnerable and desperate groups make their cases for priority amid a shortage of social homes.

Laoise Neylon May 2, 2025

Amy Bond is a librarian and writer from Co. Kildare, now based in Dublin. Her children’s novel _Morgana Mage in the Robotic Age_ is due to be published in January 2021.

3 articles

Culture Desk

Leaves for the Burning, Reviewed

“The Ireland that was promised to these young men is not the one that they have found themselves in. This book tells the tale of aging men in a youthful nation state.”

Amy Bond Nov 11, 2020

Culture Desk

Lucifer and the Child, Reviewed

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.

Amy Bond Jul 1, 2020

Culture Desk

The Last Footman, Reviewed

In this memoir, Gillies Macbain tells of arriving in Ireland in the 1960s and embarking on a life of domestic service among the declining Anglo-Irish ascendancy.

Amy Bond Oct 23, 2019