“It’s giving colonialism”: Ireland still owes rent to dukes and earls
Although, even though the OPW lists these rents as payable, some of the named beneficiaries say they haven't been getting them.
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Councillors push for answers from Waterways Ireland on its plans for the old graving docks
“Are they going to flip the site for even more money, or are they going to do something themselves?” asked Green Party Councillor Claire Byrne.
Council Briefs: Boycotting HP-branded products, quietening the M50, and pushing for more social housing
These were among the issues Fingal county councillors discussed at their July monthly meeting.
An artist coaxes music out of stone and metal in Balbriggan, building lithophones and metallophones
Darren Rogers “has an engineering mind, an architectural mind”, says local filmmaker Aidan Whelan.
With journalists and the public shut out of some Fingal council committee meetings, they’re left to rely on terse minutes
In the official record, 20 minutes of presentation and discussion can be reduced to just two short sentences.
In Meeting House Square, the Temple Bar Market has withered
Before Covid, there were 18 stalls, but on Saturday there were only 7 selling cuts of beef, cheeses, vegetables, and hot food.
Time to reopen Balbriggan’s council help desk, councillors say
Now, residents must travel 18km to Swords, or 37km to Blanchardstown if they need to sign forms or speak with a council official face to face.
In Fingal, developers planning more homes often argue there’s no need to add community amenities to go with them
Of 18 recent social infrastructure audits, 13 concluded no more was needed in areas such as Howth, Donabate, and Swords.
New documentary looks at how Balbriggan has been shaped by artists
Aidan Whelan’s 68-minute film “A Destination for the Arts” is due to premiere this Friday, 21 June.
After seven years, experimental funk octet Tongue Bundle prepare to release unheard music
Their new LP “Second-Hand Banger” offers an overview of the band’s oeuvre, including live and previously unreleased tracks.
Through his work, a “paint eater” seeks connections – to strangers, to his father
“I spend a lot of time, whenever I take breaks from painting, going to town, and always finding myself having conversations with random people,” Michael Flavin says.
In Clonsilla, residents petition a developer to save the chimney stack of an old lodge
It was built for Captain Steeds, who lived nearby in Clonsilla House, and whose horses were the victims in the Clonsilla Poisoning of 1887.
Brushing Up: A sculpture of a woman awakening in Sandymount
When the sculptor asked Sorcha Duggan to pose for the work, she went home and told her boyfriend, who said “No you’re not” – cementing her resolve to do it, she says.