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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Balls on Baize: in Phibsboro, a Proper Snooker Hall
As a child, CrossGuns Snooker Club owner Finbarr Ruane would watch his father at work repairing the tables and polishing the cues. Today, he does the same.
Dara: On the Sound of Fighting for Your Own Culture
When you isolate people, they start to form their own societies, receiving legitimacy from each other instead of the dominant culture. Enter Dublin hip-hop, writes Dara Quigley.
Brushing Up: The Story of the Palace Bar’s Back Room
Harry Kernoff used to paint some of the great writers and poets who frequented the pub, but was seldom paid. They were usually broke. One of Patrick Kavanagh’s bounced cheques is said to still be in the basement.
In Stoneybatter, a Back-Door Peek into the Wildflour Bakery
Campari cake with grapefruit and black sesame. Rhubarb, juniper and rosewater cake with Hendrick’s Gin icing. Baker Kate Packwood experiments with some unusual flavour combinations.
Zoë’s Dublin Diary: Leeds Hardcore, The Witch, Archaeoastronomical Devices, and More
Our recommendations for things to do this week, one a day: an art installation, a book launch, a film, a discussion on consent and objectification in the digital age, and some great music.
When Is It Okay for Journalists to Accept Gifts from Their Sources?
A PR company recently offered to send Dublin Inquirer a bottle of whiskey that they wanted us to write about.
Roe: My Boyfriend Won’t Tie Me Up, and Navigating Sex After Herpes
Roe answers one question from a woman puzzled about why her S&M-loving boyfriend won’t play with her, and another from a woman despondent about having caught herpes.
Curios About: Roundabout by Naomi Taitz Duffy
Roundabout is part of a series of abstract paintings inspired by maps of Dublin and the surrounding area from the 1700s and 1800s. This is just a detail – click through to see the full work.
Losing Patience: Why Are There so Many Rundown Sites Along the Red Line?
As the Luas Red Line glides through Dublin’s city centre, it passes trash-strewn empty lots, vacant patches, and boarded-up buildings. Is it ever going to change?
Is It Time to Delete the “Lord” from Lord Mayor of Dublin?
Next month, Dublin City Council is set to consider changing the title to Civic Mayor, because Lord Mayor is “in many respects . . . an alien colonialist term”. Sinn Fein’s group leader says he is against the change.
Council Meeting: Modular Housing, Young Ballymun, and the Tom Clarke Bridge
At Monday’s Dublin City Council meeting, councillors asked why they’d had to read in the papers what was going on with the modular-housing programme. Plus: renaming the East-Link Bridge and cuts to Young Ballymun.
At Pickle On Camden Street, Modern Indian “Street Food”
The decor is Indian kitsch, with colourful posters from Bollywood films and vintage Air India adverts on stripped-back walls.