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Pilot Underground Bottle Bank in Works for Mountjoy Square
Finding places to put overground bottle banks has become harder and harder, as they can be noisy and unsightly so neighbours don’t want them nearby.
On Fishamble Street, family lives among four centuries of relatives’ keepsakes
Members of the same family have lived in this iconic building, or earlier incarnations of it, in Temple Bar since the 1600s.
An Art Collective Brightens up Hospital Walls
The collective is mostly staff members who are artists, and professional artists with links to Connolly Hospital.
Music at Marrowbone Books: Cathal Caulfield
Cathal Caulfield, the traditional fiddle player and singer, grew up around trad music. He talks to Martin Cook about why he has stuck with it into adulthood.
Who Should Be Allowed to Walk Through New Student Housing Complexes?
They are often gated, and offer no routes for pedestrians to cut through to get where they’re going. Developers say that’s for security reasons, others say it divides the city.
Councillors Debate What’s Next for College Green
Many said they would support going back with a new plan to seek permission again from An Bord Pleanála.
Council Briefs: a New Look for Dolphin’s Barn, Ballymun Shopping Centre, and More
Dublin City Councillors met at City Hall for their November meeting on Monday night. Here’s some of what they voted on.
Film Tells the Story of Brian Kerr’s “Golden Generation” of Football Players
“I thought the documentary was worth making because nobody else had done it,” says writer and director Kevin Brannigan.
From Temple Bar’s Crow Street, a Label Excavates Forgotten Sounds
Allchival has over the past year focused on extracting forgotten threads of Irish musical history through reissues.
Agenda-Setting Report on White-Collar Crime Welcome, but Not Without Flaws
The report proposes the establishment of a new independent Corporate Crime Agency with its own statutory mandate to investigate corporate offences, writes a UCD law lecturer.
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.