Airbnb has targeted council employees with online adverts. Does that count as lobbying?

“Just because it’s digital, and not over coffee, doesn’t mean it’s not,” says Niamh Kirk, an associate professor at the University of Limerick.

Lois Kapila May 16, 2025

City Desk

In East Wall, a long-vacant site is looking more likely to become a community garden

A delay in a railway project means Iarnród Éireann won’t need it for a couple more years. “That was the only stumbling block, that it would be required back very shortly.”

Eoin Glackin May 16, 2025

City Desk

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.

Eoin Glackin May 16, 2025

methadone

2 articles

City Desk

A Doctor Tries to Lower Barriers to Methadone Treatment

From flexible schedules to less testing, one service is trying to make methadone treatment as accessible as possible for Dublin’s homeless.

Laoise Neylon Sep 14, 2017

City Desk

Is It Time We Learnt to Love Methadone?

Methadone maintenance programmes have a bad reputation. But is it fair?

Damien Murphy Sep 16, 2015