More than 100 HAP tenants in Dublin lost their homes after poor conditions flagged
“An innocent tenant, through no fault of their own, ends up back homeless because a landlord doesn’t carry out the works,” says one councillor.
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On Fishamble Street, family lives among four centuries of relatives’ keepsakes
Members of the same family have lived in this iconic building, or earlier incarnations of it, in Temple Bar since the 1600s.
An Advocate for Tenants Clocks Up Hundreds of Cases at the RTB
Patrick Nelis visits the Residential Tenancies Board most days, sometimes twice a day, to argue cases for tenants. He didn’t always do this. He used to work with horses.
Tribute to a Wandering Musician
Gavin Mee kept travelling and gigging and loving right up to the end, even as his heart was failing him.
Some find comfort in the magazine aisles
There is something of a ritual most mornings in the magazine section of Eason on O’Connell Street.
Before you ask: Salvatore Fullam is from Lucan
The painter’s work depicts his family life: playing FIFA on Xbox, falling asleep in front of the TV, and tying his shoes without help from the father he’s never met, who is the reason people often ask him where he’s from.
At 85, a Market Trader Still on the Go
“They’re made for dancing,” says Tessie Carroll, pointing to the high heels the woman inspects before leaving empty-handed. “Jaysus, if you brought gold here they’d want silver.”
How one young couple helped women escape from the last Magdalene Laundry
Caught in the barbed wire wrapped around the convent’s front gate, a woman was trying to escape. As the couple passed by, she called for help.
Bang Bang’s Burial and the Hunt for a Headstone
When groundskeeper Joe Tyrrell buried Bang Bang in the early 1980s, it was in an unmarked grave. A local business wants to get the Dublin legend a headstone.
Tomorrow, We Start Again
Amid the grandeur of Baggot Street, Ismael Yildiz’s kebab shack has been sat for 36 years like a leftover piece of a movie set.