Does Irish Water even know how much water data centres are using?
Much of the debate around data centres has focused on electricity, but the gap in figures for their water use has started to draw more attention – and breed mistrust.
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New scheme to tempt parents to switch to re-usable nappies launches today
Dublin City Council is partnering with Voice Ireland on the project, which aims to help reduce the mountain of disposable nappies that are helping fill the country's bins.
Kilmore West is still clogged with overflow parking from Beaumont Hospital, but is a solution in sight?
The roads are so blocked that a fire trick, headed to an emergency, couldn't get through a few weeks ago, said a councilllor at a recent meeting.
For two years, North Central is the only council area without a boxing development officer
It's needed to keep kids busy who aren't interested in the usual team sports, says a councillor.
Six months on, the renamings of two Dublin parks are still stalled out
Councillors still looking to dename Herzog Park – and to rename Diamond Park after Terence Wheelock – say they’ve seen no progress from central government on regulations to make it an option.
An uilleann piper, with one eye on tradition, takes to the big stages
In the last year, Seán McKeon has appeared around the world with Christy Moore, Elvis Costello, and other famous faces.
Youth workers look for new ways to fight grooming of children as young as six by drug gangs
With younger and younger children being targeted, organisations on the ground have to respond, they say.
Through her small Collins Avenue vineyard, a winemaker finds her family roots
It all started with a birthday gift from her son of two grape vines.
A documentary follows the ripples of the 1981 hunger strike to the California prison system
"The Strike" is due to be screened in Dublin, Belfast and Cork this month.
Priorswood Deis Plus school set to lose teacher and face larger class sizes for want of one student
Local residents and TDs are calling on the Department of Education to intervene.
A new coalition tries to lay out what a “health-led” drug policy could actually mean
“We're actually at a pivotal moment in Ireland with regard to our drug policy,” said one speaker, at the inaugural event of the Irish Coalition for Drug Reform.
In Ballymun, locals rally to save Axis café, but the figures look grim
With large losses last year, the Axis centre’s reserves will be gone by the middle of next year, says its voluntary chair Declan Dunne – unless something changes.
Clontarf seafront needs to be more fun, a councillor and locals say
And the council shouldn’t wait for the long-promised flood defences before it happens, they say.