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An Advocate for Tenants Clocks Up Hundreds of Cases at the RTB
Patrick Nelis visits the Residential Tenancies Board most days, sometimes twice a day, to argue cases for tenants. He didn’t always do this. He used to work with horses.
Sinead: You Might Be in Precarious Work and Not Even Know It
Figures out there for rates of precarious in Ireland work vary wildly, because there’s no agreed definition of the term. Something needs to be done, writes a researcher for the think tank TASC.
The Dead Friends: Episode 6
Dave Lordan staggers into Gatsby’s “niteclub” in search of a girl, and straight into an encounter with hell, in the sweaty and heart-thumping finale of this six-part podcast memoir.
Andy: Let’s Talk About Dublin’s Ties to the Saudi Regime
If Shannon is the obvious fulcrum of Irish collusion with Saudi human rights abuses, Dublin’s financial services may be a less obvious, but no less important, one, writes a UCD political economy lecturer.
Searching for Lobo in Mount Jerome Cemetery
For more than a decade, Brian Showers has compiled and anthologised Irish Gothic and horror writers. Few, though, have been such a mystery to him as the strangely named George Edmund Lobo.
At 80 Parnell Street, Clubbers Find Comfort
Club Comfort was born as an escape from dull dance music in other clubs, and as a safe space for queer and trans people, say its trio of founders.
Niamh: Did the Media Give Peter Casey Too Much Coverage?
Michael D Higgins may have won the race to the Áras, but Peter Casey took the podium in the media, garnering the most coverage of any candidate, writes a media analyst and DCU researcher.
On Meath Street, Council Meets Residents Ahead of Future Revamp
The council plans to refurbish the street within the next three years.
Tracking How Much Air Pollution Cyclists Are Breathing In
A collaboration between a Trinity College Dublin researcher and a cycle-tour company is strapping air-quality monitoring gear to cyclists helmets as they explore the city.
Transport Bodies Need to Look Again at How They Model Traffic, Some Say
Problems with predictions came up time and again in the reports from An Bord Pleanála, rejecting plans for College Green.
Can Videos from Cyclists be Used to Tackle Dangerous Driving?
While Gardaí have been cautious about using cyclists’ videos of poor driver behaviour, police in the UK have embraced such evidence, calling it a “game changer”.