Against a backdrop of policy shifts, Ukrainian refugee children embrace their Irish lives
Ireland is the place they started school, joined sports clubs – yet their parents worry about how changes to citizenship eligibility may haunt their future.
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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 Ballymun, plans called for developers to build high-density private homes – but large swathes of land remain vacant
It’s time to shift strategies, some say, and ramp up lower-density affordable-purchase housing there instead.
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.
Non-EU partners of EU citizens can legally travel without visas, even on their own, but border guards and airline staff don’t always let them
When Arpita Chakraborty arrived at Amsterdam’s airport without her Spanish-citizen husband, “They’re like, ‘Okay, sorry, Madam, where is your husband?’”
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.
Councillors vote to close laneway off Glasnevin Avenue due to anti-social behaviour
“Closure of laneways in the city are only considered as a last resort,” says a council spokesperson, although the council has closed at least five routes recently.
A Belfast-based Vietnamese restaurant empire expands to Dublin
The first of several Madame Pho locations planned for Dublin is due to open Friday, all going well.
Photo of the Month: September
“This photo was taken in Dublin City centre on the junction of Dame Street and South Great George’s Street. It’s one of the busiest parts of town.”
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.
New bus-tracking system to tackle “ghost buses” and “disappearing buses”
The National Transport Authority has awarded a contract to a UK-based company to roll out the new system – in 2025–2026, all going well.
Vacancy Watch: The site in front of the National Centre for the Circular Economy in Ballymun
Surrounded by hoardings, “this site seriously detracts from the centre and from the main street of Ballymun”, says Fianna Fáil Councillor Keith Connolly.
Background checks for some citizenship-seekers seem to take years
Even when applicants have never had run-ins with the law in Ireland or elsewhere, and have submitted piles of paperwork.