More than 100 HAP tenants in Dublin lost their homes after poor conditions flagged
“An innocent tenant, through no fault of their own, ends up back homeless because a landlord doesn’t carry out the works,” says one councillor.
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Timeline for Fingal section of Royal Canal Greenway drifts further again
The plan now is to apply for planning permission in the second quarter of 2025, councillors learnt recently.
Poet, painter and activist Michael O’Flanagan works to preserve old Kilmainham one piece at a time
To ensure the now vanished shop The Orchard is remembered, he painted it. To try to save the old library building, he ran for council.
As residents of Portrane and Donabate campaign for a cultural space, a beautiful hall nearby sits empty
The grand Victorian hall at St Ita’s used to host show bands, Christmas dances, and more, says Paschal Henchy, who worked at the hospital for 44 years.
Council Briefs: Setting the local property tax, access to Balbriggan Beach, and pressing for community childcare in Donabate
Here’s what Fingal councillors have been debating at their recent meetings.
A new album from Asa Nisi Masa evokes scrolling the internet at night
“God forgive me,” sang Jack Fanciulli recently, as his guitar made a wall of feedback and a sample of an indistinct voice played.
Near Portmarnock Dart Station, growth of footpath parking forces residents to walk on the road
Ciarán Ó Baoighealláin has tried to get Fingal County Council to intervene, he says. But to no effect.
Artist John Carpenter captures Dublin city with strokes of his pen
With a pen, “you can’t mess around. You can’t rub it out. You have to go for it,” he says. “I love that bit of danger.”
In Dublin 8, an experimental theatre production explores the many desires of its performers
“Global Desires”, the latest from Outlandish Theatre, is scheduled to run at Dublin Theatre Festival this month.
In Porterstown, a proposal to demolish a 19th-century cottage fuels worries about the erosion of the village’s character
Keane’s cottage isn’t listed, and a developer wants to knock it to build 100 new homes. But some residents say they’d mourn its loss.
In Ringsend, community activists carry on Orla Murphy’s work in her memory
Like the Ringsend and Irishtown community memorial wall she had envisioned. “It was Orla’s baby,” Susan Gregg Farrell says.
An artist honours an immigrant cabbage in the Liberties
“I started this last year, because I had a special relationship with this wild cabbage.”
In Portobello, writers, poets and artists launch the latest Lesbian Art Circle
It is both a publication and a culture club for queer and questioning women and non-binary people.