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A local history project in Drumcondra unearths an original record and imagines the first owner’s housewarming party
“It’s Chris Hall, ‘One Night in June’ and it’s from 1929,” says Chris Moran. “Someone is probably having a house party when they got their keys.”
In Lispopple, “we provide the bus service, but we don’t provide any stops”
The 197 bus runs by the Kettles Country House Hotel every hour, but you can only get on or off there if you’re headed one direction.
From ambient electronic music to 70s and 80s Japanese pop, DJ Emmy Shigeta brings the sound of Tokyo to Smithfield
It’s music you’d be unlikely to hear anywhere else in the city, says musician Robbie Stickland, who often goes to her six-hour weekly slot at Fidelity on Queen Street.
After a string of thefts, students in a Docklands housing block say they’re struggling to get help from guards or management
Over six months last year, at least one PlayStation, three Nintendo Switches, a smoothie-maker, and about €500 cash went missing, by one resident’s accounting.
Council should take back Tailors’ Hall from heritage group An Taisce and put it to community use, council committee says
An Taisce has sub-leased part of the historic Liberties building to a publican. Some local councillors said there are more pressing needs in the area than a pub.
Swords residents not told that a text service to report issues directly to Gardaí was shut down more than a year ago
“So people are still using it, which is unfortunate,” says Sinn Féin Councillor Ann Graves.
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Department doubtful about council’s plan for a new interpretive centre on Bull Island
The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage has questioned “the viability of providing the proposed Discovery Centre”.
Despite Palestinians’ calls, councillors’ vote, and genocide, Dublin City Council continues to buy HP computers
The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee has for years been calling for a boycott of HP-branded companies. Can’t do, says council.
Government scheme to help medium-income renters leaves some to fall through gap
There’s a cohort earning too much for social housing, but too little to qualify for the Land Development Agency’s new cost-rental “affordable” housing schemes.
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Fast-track planning rules won’t speed up regeneration of flat complex in Coolock, council officials say
The council began the process of regenerating Cromcastle Court in mid-2018. It doesn’t expect to start re-building this year.