City Desk Airbnb has targeted council employees with online adverts. Does that count as lobbying? “Just because it’s digital, and not over coffee, doesn’t mean it’s not,” says Niamh Kirk, an associate professor at the University of Limerick. Lois Kapila May 16, 2025
City Desk In East Wall, a long-vacant site is looking more likely to become a community garden A delay in a railway project means Iarnród Éireann won’t need it for a couple more years. “That was the only stumbling block, that it would be required back very shortly.” Eoin Glackin May 16, 2025
City Desk The names of some new developments are too boring, councillors say Church Mews, Church View or Church Place? Not good enough, said independent Councillor Cieran Perry. Eoin Glackin May 16, 2025
Culture Desk The Blue Guitar by John Banville, Reviewed What saves the reader from growing impatient, even irritable, at the narrator’s self-serving and not entirely reliable ramblings is the writing. Joe Joyce Sep 2, 2015
