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Can Elderly People with Large Homes Help Ease Homelessness?
There are single people living in big houses, and families living in rooms. What’s the solution to the mismatch?
Five New Dublin City Councillors Have Taken Their Seats
Six Dublin City Councillors won seats in the Dáil in last month’s election. So far, their parties have replaced five of them. Meet the new councillors.
Can Soup Eaters Help Change Dublin for the Better?
Every six weeks, Dubliners with ideas for how to make the city better will pitch to Dubliners with questions about how it’ll work. And they’ll all eat soup.
Zoë’s Dublin Diary: OFFSET, Guts 5, Anti-Patriarchy Chaos Social, Willis Earl Beal and More
Our picks for the week, one a day: a film about a tone-deaf singer, Fiona Marron’s Proving Ground at ArtBox, and Willis Earl Beal at Sugar Club, and more.
For Artists, Another Chance to Paint Dublin’s Traffic Boxes
Last summer, artists got the chance to paint some of Dublin’s grey traffic-signal boxes with bright, beautiful designs. If you kicked yourself for missing out, you’ve got another chance to apply now, for the next round.
There’s Money for Good Ideas to Help Scale Up Cycling in Dublin
Dublin City Council wants 25 percent of all trips in the city centre to be taken by bike, and it needs more ideas for how to reach that goal.
Feeding Regeneration: At Union 8, Goji Berries and a View of Rundown Site
Redrawing Dublin discover the tastes of Union 8 in Kilmainham, where the view leads to a point-by-point demolition of official excuses for dereliction.
Will St Leger, out in the open
As a kid, Will St Leger was surrounded by conflict. “I remember seeing movies on TV and I wanted to be a soldier without a gun,” he said. And maybe that’s what he is, as a playful, political street artist.
Feeding Regeneration: A New Series for Foodies and City-Lovers
In a new series of paired articles, Redrawing Dublin will look at some of the inner city’s great restaurants, and the challenges facing their neighbourhoods. Here’s their manifesto.
Feeding Regeneration: At Fish Shop, Flavoursome Food and Troublesome Traffic
Redrawing Dublin recently visited Fish Shop on Queen Street to try the brill and have a look at a big problem blocking the area’s regeneration: traffic.
Curios About: Equus Caballus by Alison Tubritt
In an age when many artists focus on performance and installation, Alison Tubritt has chosen a more traditional approach: drawing horses, on paper, with pencils.
Children’s Children by Jan Carson, Reviewed
In this short-story collection, Carson uses fantasy as a tool for getting at those truths that facts are too blunt for.