Council forfeits €600,000 for Smithfield Square, as deadline for drawdown passes
The plaza needs help, says Sean Mullan, owner of the Third Space cafe. “Someone with the imagination that we could make this a vibrant space that belongs to the city.”
One person writes in with a question about how to stay safe during casual hook-ups, and another writes in complaining that her partner doesn’t last long enough. Roe has advice.
The former taoiseach, as much as anyone, helped to drive the economy off a cliff. His reward? A seat on the board of Topaz, and now an honorary doctorate.
One reader says she wants kids but feels she is just too broke, and another worries that she isn’t as “tight” as she should be.
“I naively believed my support system would carry me through any fallouts and it would never come to that,” writes Christine O’Donnell.
Pay for people working in hotels, bars and restaurants is half the national average. But this can be hard, physical, sometimes dangerous work.
The greenway network would offer much more than something for cyclists, and the benefits go way beyond commuting, writes DIT transport planning lecturer David O’Connor.
The rules around conflicts of interest and corruption may be there, but if they are not enforced in the most high-profile cases, then how useful are they? asks UCD lecturer Andy Storey.
“The coach unpiles and I am in my first Portaloo queue of the day, and thank the holy spirit it’s clean…” A poet’s journey to perform at a summer festival.
We need to consider the needs of low-income families, and make sure that workers’ rights are protected and recycling is incentivised, writes UCD political economy lecturer Andy Storey.
Most journalists would agree that the default position should be to name those we quote in our articles. But government spokespeople resist this, insisting on anonymity.
For people at the lower rungs of the income ladder, Dublin’s high cost of living is more than an irritation – it is a full-blown crisis, writes UCD political economy lecturer Andy Storey.
One reader asks if it would be a bad move for her and her fiancé to sleep in different beds, and another questions what to make of what they found on a family computer.