Is a bad definition of "derelict" partly behind the bad dereliction in Dublin?
The Department of Finance, with Revenue and the Department of Housing, is looking at a new definition, said a spokesperson.
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Vote: What should Dublin city's new motto be?
Last week we had an article about efforts over the years to change it, and asked for your ideas for a replacement. Now you can vote on a shortlist.
Survivors excluded from planning of memorial centre on former Magdalene Laundry site, councillors warn
“I don't know how many times we have to ask to be included.”
Despite past visions for change, Dublin city’s motto still calls for obedient citizens
Have an idea for a better one? Let us know.
In Ringsend, the historical society is building an archive of photos and more
First, they’re working on putting the materials online. But later, maybe a place where people can drop in to look at some of them.
New book documents queer lives in newly independent Ireland
“Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same-Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922-1972” is by historian Averill Earls.
The names of some new developments are too boring, councillors say
Church Mews, Church View or Church Place? Not good enough, said independent Councillor Cieran Perry.
Fifty years after the Vietnam War, Vietnamese Dubliners peer back into the past – as they understand it
For some, life is an inherited ache to leave Vietnam and half-remembered stories and unprocessed feelings embodied in what their grandparents said, or didn’t say, about the past.
Cover image for Dublin Inquirer print edition #109
"All I ever saw growing up was five a sides; they were everywhere."
Council plans a new statue to honour revolutionary women, on O’Connell Street
Councillors emphasised that it should be really large. “We have to be big and bold,” says independent Councillor Vincent Jackson.
Salvaging a piece of Ringsend’s marine history
Earlier this week, a team was hard at work sandblasting and washing the stern of the MV Naomh Eanna – hoping to put it on show.
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.”
On a quiet South Dublin road, a plaque serves as a reminder of a long unsolved murder
Honour Bright was found dead in Ticknock, Co. Dublin, in June 1925.