Vacancy Watch: a big site near Fatima Luas stop
Even as the government casts around for new land to zone for homes, it is unclear when this plot will be built out.
When confronted with irrefutable data from Census statistics about groups that are marginalised in Ireland, people regularly ask me what they can do to help, writes a UCD lecturer.
“There are only two alternatives in stamping out an evil: law or terrorism, and we had to fall back on terrorism,” recalled Fr R.S. Devane.
The death of community activist John “Whacker” Humphrey a few weeks ago, reminded the country of the anti-drugs campaign in which he played such a central role.
A reader asks how to make conversations about race relevant here, given Ireland has a different history to the US or Canada, say. Ebun offers some advice.
We should spend more time thinking about the social, political, and environmental complexities of Ireland’s role in the Internet, writes a DCU PhD researcher.
Fifty years after the 1916 Rising, the Language Freedom Movement launched a campaign at the Mansion House to push the state to break some of its ties to the Irish language. Stink bombs were thrown, and scuffles broke out.
Some in Ireland point to America as a country to emulate in its treatment of white-collar crime. That’s misguided, writes our white-collar crime columnist.
“It didn’t take long, no more than a week, before I stopped paying attention to what I ate,” writes Christine O’Donnell.
For practical reasons, it’s hard to challenge the sea of misinformation in these rambling video monologues.
After living in a more diverse place, a reader asks how to broach conversations about race back home in Ireland, with people less accustomed to having them. Ebun offers some advice.
There is perhaps nobody as significant to the story of collecting Ireland’s oral folk tradition as Séamus Ennis, who was born a hundred years ago this May.
Addiction is an illness, not a moral decision, and people suffering through it deserve dignity and proper healthcare, writes Anne Buckley.