At the Irish Football Programme Club fair, people hunt for the rare and the strange
“It seemed like a good idea at the time,” says Gareth Jones, standing over his own extensive collection, sprawled out over several tables.
Artist Augustine O’Donoghue and author Conor McCabe made 50 of the mats and gave them away on Meath Street recently. From there, they spread out.
A third of women now on Dublin City Council aren’t standing again, while only an eighth of men on the council say the same.
With as many as 28 candidates in the city, its list is double that of many other parties. Is that good strategy?