Councillors back renewed focus on serious anti-social behaviour in council complexes
“We know there are issues,” said Dublin City Council Assistant Chief Executive Mick Mulhern, at a recent housing committee meeting.
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Photo of the Month: April 2024
“Penny doesn’t have a soother like Heidi’s, but she does her best imitation for her in the photo!”
It’s time to get moving on building an arts venue in the northern suburbs, area councillors say
“The potential for a venue for the arts should be looked at,” City Arts Officer Ray Yeates said. But it could take a decade to get it off the ground, he warned.
Brushing up: A monument to “Demolition” Dave Conway, who helped clear the way for the Luas’s Red Line
Conway, a crane operator, died in a motorcycle crash in 2001, at age 38.
A performer brings Brazilian rock to the north inner-city
“I am not the same when I am on stage, I am another, I am the superhero that I would like to be,” says Dafne Kontoya, who says she’s normally a very shy person.
In Rialto, a community meets for creative sessions
“It is like meditation, you are just doing things like cutting, painting and you get a bit of flow and relax,” says Marina Marinina.
Unsure of its future, an inner-city arts space has been letting staff go
How Dublin City Council – which is D-Light Studio’s landlord – has handled the art space is baffling, says Labour Senator Marie Sherlock.
Council looks to take over running Smock Alley Theatre
The company currently running it has struggled on and off with its finances, including paying its rent, according to a council report.
Photo of the Month: March 2024
“Seeing this runner doing his thing as the country ran for cover had me thinking to ‘Keep going until something stops you’.”
Rapper Blue Niall’s new project reimagines his life merged with the Irish myth of Oisín and Niamh
While they went to Tír na nÓg for 300 years and returned, his own journey was to London – for a considerably shorter time – and back.
Brushing Up: A relic of neighbourly chats hangs in Blanchardstown Library
A colourful quilt of 38 patches, each presenting a different work of art, it reads “Welcome to Blanch” in big vibrant letters.
In Temple Bar, a new exhibition attempts to grapple with the present by putting it side by side with the past
In works like Claire Halpin and Rachel Fallon’s image of migrants adrift at sea, which echoes a 19th-century painting of French colonisers adrift at sea.
Council looks at whether to ban political protests in parks
Also on the agenda of a recent arts committee meeting was a timeline for new arts studios planned on Merchants Quay.