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"June is deeply associated with Áine, the Irish goddess of summer, fertility, love, and sovereignty, whose presence is especially felt around the midsummer season."
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Things To Do: Stand at a bus stop, browse some rare books, curate a magazine, spend the weekend watching movies
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Due to delays, council’s district heating project wasn’t ready to warm Irish Glass Bottle apartments
So instead of being kept cosy with waste heat from the Poolbeg incinerator, the apartments are using heat pumps, the council project manager said Monday.
In Fingal, council raised rents weeks before telling its tenants what their new rates were
The council had problems with its IT system, which led to the delay, said Paul Carroll, the council’s director of housing.
Things To Do: Pin the blame on indie sleaze, visit a bungalow, see the Dead Zoo in blue
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Council investigates chemical "attacks" on beach grass in Balbriggan
“It is not harmless behaviour – it is the premeditated, attempted destruction of a key environmental asset.”
Council identifies Clongriffin as potential site for a new cultural and artistic centre
A 2021 cultural infrastructure audit found that there was a big swathe of the northeast of the city that did not have any cultural buildings nearby.
Things To Do: Hear some early music, solve a riddle, use fiction as a verb
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Under council’s "5% policy", developers are delivering arts spaces – but who will pay for the fit-outs?
The new four-storey Juno Building on Upper Sheriff Street is built, but it’ll cost millions to finish the interior so arts organisations can put it to use.
How much would it cost the council to revive the Rupert Guinness Theatre in the Liberties?
The Diageo-owned theatre on Watling Street has been left unused for many years.
Things To Do: Unpack the Fingal seaweed war, debate the golden age of the Irish short story, swim operatically
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Bit of land chosen for Balbriggan swimming platform has been swept away in storms
“I suppose now we are at a little bit of an impasse,” said Declan Ryan, a senior executive officer at Fingal County Council.
In Drimnagh, Bosco youth centre looks for ways to expand to meet growing needs
The council has agreed to support a feasibility study to look at the centre's future, a spokesperson said.