Dozens of people from Gaza seeking visas to study in Ireland are denied entry
It was Haneen Eshraim's only “realistic opportunity at this stage to leave Gaza safely and continue my education”, she said.
Some councillors have long wanted the room in the old Rathmines Town Hall opened up for wider use.
Methods of serving periwinkles have changed over time. Traditionally, though, they are boiled in seawater and the fleshy meat is pulled out with a pin.
It would be the “height of insensitivity” if he doesn’t, when he stops in the neighbourhood later this month, says Social Democrats Councillor Gary Gannon.
During his Ireland tour, the author and former slave found “receptive audiences keen to link their own political aspirations to his”.
Patrick Byrne was a purveyor of incendiary ideas on eighteenth-century Grafton Street.
The owner says that he has always respected its historical significance, but that he needs to make changes to turn it into housing.
For years, Billy McGuire has performed the annual ceremony at Mansion House, which he says confirms Ireland’s sovereignty. That tradition may now have come to an end.
More than any other individual, it was the great Jackie Carey – hailing from Dublin’s north side – who turned the Irish public onto British football, writes a historian.
Many Dubliners abandoned public transport and sought sanctuary anywhere they could. In total, the flu claimed more lives than the political violence of the revolutionary period.
When writers produce material that incorporates or is influenced by their own working-class background, it seems they still face an uphill battle to be recognised, writes Daniel Seery.