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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A Day Like Today, Reviewed
In this low-budget earnest variation on the magic hobo picture, director Gerard Walsh creates a touching film with a powerful finale.
A New Pavilion for Merrion Square, But What Will It Be Used for?
Merrion Square is due to get a new pavilion. But should it house an art exhibition or a memorial to emigrants, designed to reconnect members of the diaspora to Dublin?
Danger for Cyclists: Here’s a Place to be Careful, Part III
In the third installment of our cycling-safety series, we zoom in on a Portobello intersection that three readers have tagged as dangerous on our collision-tracking map.
For Dublin’s Housing Crisis, Bureaucracy Isn’t Helping
For developments that are in the pipeline, is there any way to speed them up?
Howth Gears up for Dublin Bay Prawn Festival
From 18 to 20 March, you’ll be able to get your Dublin Bay prawns prepared every which-way. And if you’re not into shellfish, there’s always fish and chips.
For Ballymun Rapid-Build Homes, Has Council Ignored Its Own Standards?
Three-bedrooom houses in Dublin should ideally be at least 100 sqm, a standard the council held an Ailesbury Rd development to in September. But smaller homes are apparently okay in Poppintree, for rapid-build houses, for homeless families.
Zoë’s Dublin Diary: Telephones, Jacobin Launch, Art as Statecraft, and More
Head to the Snakes on a Playground party in Dublin 8, argue about socialism and 1916 at Liberty Hall, or stroll over to the Chocolate Factory to hear three inventive Irish ensembles. Here’s what to do in the coming seven days.
Curios About: ImagineHareium by Sandra Schoene
Artist Sandra Schoene wants us to reawaken the sense of wonder we had as children. She made a giant hare to help us. And to help the Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation’s citywide Hares on the March event.
In Inchicore, the Rebirth of Richmond Barracks
Plans to reopen Richmond Barracks in late spring seem to be on track, and many in the neighbourhood hope the new attraction will bring much-needed footfall to the area.
Is It Time to Give Documents to Dublin’s Undocumented Immigrants?
It’s an annual tradition now: the Taoiseach goes to Washington to ask Obama to help undocumented Irish in America. And in Dublin, there are calls for the Taoiseach to help undocumented people here too.
Dublin’s Burrito Crisis: Bad Food, Bad Regulation or Bad Journalism?
Last week, media reports indicated that two of the city’s favourite burrito bars had been hit with Food Safety Authority closure orders. Here’s what happened.
Andy: Vulture Funds Gorge on Ireland Because the Government Lets Them
It is, in large part, the way in which the state has responded to the property price crash that has allowed vulture funds to be enriched and selected local developers cosseted.