Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire - Dublin InQuirer

During heatwave, building manager warns Cork Street tenants not to open windows too far to cool their homes

Some tenants had been disconnecting window restrictors put in to keep people from falling out windows, which are required under building regulations, an email from the building manager said.

Eoin Glackin, Lois Kapila Jul 17, 2026

community spaces

Council should buy James Weir Home and pass it on to youth-services charity, councillors say

Consolidating operations into one main hub would be the dream, says Amy Carey, CEO of Solas Project, but they don't yet know what doing up the vacant building on Cork Street would cost.

Eoin Glackin Jul 17, 2026

district heating

If district heating is the future for Dublin, how much will it cost customers?

The shift to a lower-carbon heating system would reduce big-picture costs, like, global costs, societal costs. But how would it affect customers' bills?

Lois Kapila, Eoin Glackin Jul 17, 2026

Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire is a senior lecturer in Culinary Arts, Gastronomy and Food Studies in the Dublin Institute of Technology.

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Opinion

Máirtín: Dublin’s Street Names Offer Clues to the City’s Culinary History

For some of the food-related place names, the move from Irish to English has masked their resonance and origins, writes a DIT lecturer and chef.

Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire Aug 15, 2018