In an Inchicore industrial estate, a members’ club invites people to mingle and jam
“The biggest thing that happens here and the most fantastic thing to see is people feel they own it,” says organiser Kamil Che.
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Plans for social housing on site in Howth put on hold due to cost increases, council says
Maybe it’s time to go back to an earlier plan to make the site into a proper park, a local councillor says.
Once a month, a Sunday-afternoon pop-up Gaeltacht in Skerries
“There aren’t enough opportunities to practise, so the idea here is good, just to provide a forum,” says Anne McGough, who dropped in last Sunday.
The loss of Sam’s Collective, a special space in Dublin’s queer scene
Others should take the closure as an inspiration and fill the gap, says Coco Fabulasio. “Let’s build new things.”
Luke: New film “Four Mothers” is “equal parts heartwarming and heart-rending”
It’s from Darren and Colin Thornton, the sibling team behind 2016’s “A Date for Mad Mary”, “one of the truly great Irish films of the last 10 years”.
Photo of the Month: March
“As a street photographer you really see how much people have cut themselves off from each other via this little thing that fits in our hands.”
Dublin City Council is considering raising rents for its tenants
Debate so far has been around the current costs of maintenance, which tenants may be asked to pay more, and the fairness of rent rises for those in poor conditions.
On Parnell Street, a trial for the sushi hotdog
The latest special at Sashimir Sushi involves a deep-fried rice hotdog bun, chunks of fresh raw salmon, and plenty of sauce.
Mourning her Iranian husband, an Irish woman seeks out a Dublin Nowruz
“Nowruz was very special to us. That’s why I’m here,” she says.
On Ormond Quay, a literary salon meets as Gaeilge
As, over the river, councillors again picked up the thread on long-standing plans for an Irish language quarter.
Central government promises, again, to give councillors more powers
It plans to set up a new Local Democracy Taskforce, a briefing document says.
Councillors hold off on vote to sell land to Conor McGregor’s firm
They had a few questions at a meeting of the South Central Area Committee recently.
Dean: KhakiKid and Travy are among the Irish rap elite
They’re “a pair of gifted boy wonders on very different ends of the stylistic spectrum from each other”.