Why don't councillors talk as much about homelessness at meetings anymore?
For years, homelessness was a standing item on the agenda at most housing committee meetings. But, recently it hasn’t featured as often.
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Some Councillors Want DCC Beta Projects Back
For more than a year now, DCC Beta Projects has been on hold. “The council talks about citizen engagement, but this was actually doing it,” one councillor said.
In Temple Bar, a Tattoo Parlour Turns on an Anti-Homeless Sprinkler
Some called such sprinklers a “disgrace”, but the shop’s staff say after years of finding faeces and needles, “our priority is the well-being and safety of our staff”.
At Christmastime, Free Soft Drinks for Drivers, but Few Takers
As part of the Designated Driver campaign, pubs and restaurants have for 12 years been offering sober drivers free soft drinks.
Finding Balance on Bull Island: Dogs and Dead Seal Pups
The postmortem says the seals’ injuries were consistent with an attack by a predator.
Curios About: The Fury by Heather Thompson
This work depicts one of the Furies of Greek mythology, “terrifying women” who “represent merciless justice”, the artist writes. This is just a detail – click through to see the full image.
Crash and Burn, Reviewed
This is not so much a rags-to-riches story as it is a rags-to-further-rags-and-then-contentment kind of story, writes Luke Maxwell. “I wasn’t born with a silver spoon up my ass,” Tommy Byrne explains.
We Need to Build Walls for Dublin’s Dead, Some Say
Some of Dublin’s graveyards are filling up and one Dublin City Councillor thinks he knows how to solve the problem.
Is Dublin Done with Big Outdoor Christmas Markets?
Luas works mean no big Christmas market at St Stephen’s Green this year and some argue that if it, and others, come back, they should be done differently.
Brushing Up: a Weathered Statue of St Andrew
The sculptor behind the now-armless St Andrew was also behind the statues of Hibernia, Commerce, and Fidelity that sit atop the Bank of Ireland on College Green.
Andy: Why the Far Right Burns Bright Elsewhere, Fizzles in Ireland
Should we pat ourselves on the back for not (yet anyway) embracing the electoral rise of the far right? Yes and no, writes UCD political economy lecturer Andy Storey.
David: NTA Signals Shift Towards High-Quality Bus Network
As traffic levels continue to grow in the Dublin area, the NTA appears to be realising the increasingly urgent and pertinent role of the “Core Bus Network”.
How to Be Massive, Reviewed
Aoife Dooley’s new book is “an astutely observed, funny and at times touching comic of social history”, writes Sophia Vigne Welsh.