“These motocross bikes are going up and down the streets outside their houses because normally they'd have somewhere to go, now they've nowhere to go.”
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.
Redrawing Dublin recently visited Fish Shop on Queen Street to try the brill and have a look at a big problem blocking the area’s regeneration: traffic.
Just when you thought you had all the coffee-related paraphernalia that you could need, Andrew Douglas of Urban Farm has plans to launch a new kit to help you grow food on your grounds.
Christy Burke has spent 30 years as a city councillor, with one stint as Lord Mayor and a reputation as a crusader for the homeless. After nine attempts to get into the Dail, could now be his time?
This year, spring might look a bit different from the windows of O’Carroll Villas on Cuffe Street in the south inner-city. On a patch of land below, work is underway on a new vegetable garden.
Business associations, councillors, and cycling advocates all seem happy with plans for a grand sweeping plaza that aim to transform College Green into a glorious civic space.
DIT’s new home isn’t done yet, but it has already won an award for its innovative, open design, which is meant to integrate it with the surrounding community.
For almost five years, the issue of how to deal with inner-city dealing in prescription drugs has been on the government’s radar. Why has nothing happened?
On North Inner-City development, rising rents and the homelessness crisis, the government is looking out for property interests, rather than the people’s interests.
The honeymoon period for the “favoured” option for a new Liffey Cycle Route seems to be over. Local residents say it wouldn’t be good for the neighbourhood.
At 28, independent Dublin City Councillor Gary Gannon is still trying to find his way, politically. At the Pig and Heifer, he talks about issues from housing to abortion, and about his ambitions.
