A new plan envisions Dublin City Council helping to fill creche spaces with actual creches
And possibly setting up a council-owned, not-for-profit childcare delivery company.
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In Drumcondra, a shop holds a trove of old-school cash registers
Members of the Bolger family have been running Botanic Office Equipment since 1970. “It’s what you know,” says Padraic Bolger.
The Cabra Men’s Shed, together again
Before the pandemic, there was a bustling schedule for older people in the community. Starting with new yoga classes, organisers are trying to bring it back.
At dusk in Grangegorman, a group searches for swifts
On Monday night, Aoife Doherty and others were out helping with this summer’s Swift Conservation Survey, tracking a declining swift population.
Who should be monitoring the rise of “landlord tech”?
Landlords are left to self-regulate their use of the tenants’ data hoovered up through the apps and systems in big rental complexes – unless someone brings a complaint to the Data Protection Commission.
Mapping Dublin’s growing constellation of company landlords
In the last three years, institutional investment into Dublin’s rental sector has soared. But what do these investors now own?
Remembering Liberties icon Paddy Alldritt
Known locally as Paddy Allright, he was one of Dublin’s last “tuggers”, lugging around fruit and vegetables and furniture by hand cart.
A Dublin church reflects on how it benefited from slavery
The Unitarian Church on St Stephen’s Green was built on land bought with money from Thomas Wilson, who owned hundreds of enslaved people in Trinidad.
A gap in a hedge at St Anne’s Park opens on to a secluded Chinese landscape
There are more than 60 classical Suzhou gardens in China. There’s one in Dublin, too.
In Ballymun, a murdered coachman’s tomb lies in plain sight
The tomb stands alone in the grounds of St Pappin’s Nursing Home, on the main road through the hustle and bustle of Ballymun.
Whatever happened to Dublin’s wedding grushys?
There are theories around why the tradition has – almost – disappeared.
In Rialto, a romance writer pens her 50th book
Romance writer Daisy Cummins works from her home office in Rialto, where she’s just completed her 50th book for the Mills & Boon publishing franchise.
After almost 50 years, a renowned Irish font Is brought into the digital age
Graphic Designer Jarlath Hayes created the famous Irish modernist typeface Tuam Uncial in the 70s.