On the walls of a Kilbarrack health centre, an artist pays tribute to the beautiful ordinary
Paul MacCormaic says he hopes the works inspire an interest and pride in nearby sights, passed by everyday.
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On Grand Canal Street, a new food truck offers Polish street-food classics
The menu includes zapiekanka – an open toasted baguette, topped with sauteed mushrooms, fried onions and melted cheese – and a Polish “hot dog”.
In Hartstown, a writer and musician imagines the eeriness of the Dublin suburbs of the near future
“Hub”, his latest album of stories told over ambient music, “casts a jaundiced eye on Ireland as a tech and financial services node”.
In Fingal, councillors call for more transparency in how council is tackling coastal erosion
No record of a Fingal Coastal Liaison Group meeting has been published publicly since 11 September 2019 – although there have been meetings since then.
In Dublin 8, a new group aims to represent the interests of local football clubs
The Liberties Football Alliance plans to push for existing pitches to be fixed up, and new ones to be built.
In Fingal, a trio of councillors proposes reopening strategic policy committee meetings to media and the public
The county’s councillors voted through rules late last year that ended access.
In the Docklands, a new art exhibition based around water, movement and journeys
“It’s all things that link to the port, like transport and logistics, but also centuries of migration.”
A rain-ruined mosaic, once thought to be lost, has been reborn as a sculpture
Parts of Desmond Kinney’s “Sweeney Astray” live on in “Life Journey” by Jade Breen, Sophie Longwill and Andy Sharkey.
In Porterstown, a public garden offers a template for residents who want to attract more critters to the area
The Riverwood Biodiversity Group has shaped the patch to tempt solitary bees, hedgehogs, and others. They hope neighbours will take inspiration from it.
To make James Joyce more relatable, an effort to unearth the stories of his many siblings
It might help Dubliners connect to the man himself more, says John Foyle. “Because they did lead relatively normal lives.”
Frustrated watching Werburgh Street sites rot, a guerilla architect anonymously posts plans for them
Dublin City Council too, is working on plans for these historic sites next to Dublin Castle.
Council orders Clonsilla drone delivery service base removed
It issued the owner of the Clonsilla Inn with a planning enforcement notice on 19 June, giving two months to remove the landing pads.
In Clonsilla, residents say council should finish plan for the village before further development is okayed
Fingal County Council hasn’t said when it expects the vision it is working on to be done.