"Entries are now open for the Unheard Voices: the Joe Drennan Memorial Prize for a piece of journalism offering a voice to those who so often go unheard." www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
In a new Irish-language film, “secrets can’t stay buried forever, even at the bottom of a lake”, writes Luke Maxwell. Báite (The Drowned) is “measured and tight in the fashion of the most watchable mysteries”.
Dublin City Council has pulled offers of social homes in Finglas development. It was a huge blow, said one woman who thought she was about to get a home. Why the council has retreated from a deal to lease the homes is a point of dispute.
In Grangegorman, the source of a mysterious flow of water down the street has yet to be established. Four years ago, a local resident flagged it.
Dublin city councillors are looking to amp up the attention they give to social inclusion. They added a focus on social inclusion to the work of their housing committee in September 2024. But it hasn't really featured yet.
Will new rent rules increase supply and reduce rents – or will developers drip-feed to avoid that? Investors work on modelling, says Joseph Kilroy. “Its not necessarily in their shareholders' interests to be driving down the cost of rent.”
A hoarding that says Oscar Traynor Woods, with a crane rising behind it.
Are council officials trying to steer Coolock’s community gain fund towards what they want? About €7 million went into a pot for projects for the surrounding area, when the Oscar Traynor Woods deal was struck. www.dublininquirer.c...
The RTB still can’t compel landlords to lower rent if investigators spot illegal hikes. Changes to make it possible were to be included in a new law, when first announced. But they were dropped.
Tusla inspectors found problems with the use of physical restraint in seven children’s homes. In two cases, inspectors found that staff were using restraint to try to manage children’s behaviour, and one of those children was restrained 78 times.
The former chief executive of Inland Fisheries Ireland has said he made a statement to gardaí that he was “being blackmailed” by a sitting senator in a bid to force him to reinstate a suspended senior employee.
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A new disabled persons’ organisation has launched in Dublin. The Dublin DPO aims to bring together voices from across coalitions – groups for the blind, the mobility impaired, the autistic, and more.
Councillors ask for a working group to, finally, sort safer access to a lonely bit of Swords. A muddy path is the only pedestrian link from Swords to Knocksedan – aside from walking on roads with cars whizzing by.
In Ireland, asking immigrants to weigh in on immigration policies is mostly box-ticking, community organisers say. In other EU countries, though, it seems immigrants are consulted more substantially.
Dublin city councillors backed a motion condeming the US/Israel attack on Iran, despite chief executive's legal concerns. At their monthly meeting Monday, they also, separately, supported a motion opposing the government’s plans to abolish the Triple Lock.
While council staff are barred from using free AI chatbots, councillors are trained on them. "Use of free and publicly accessible Gen AI tools present a significant risk for organisations," Dublin City Council guidelines say.
A new film documents Dubliners’ resistance to subordination of social life to profit. “The market is a monster,” says filmmaker James Redmond. “It turns living spaces into dead space.”
Burglar put their own spin on Generation X mimicry, writes Dean Van Nguyen. “Their songs are a veritable Lollapalooza of unflashy guitar play, stark aesthetics, gentle melodies, interlocking guy-girl vocal harmonies, and the spirit of Fugazi.”
After years of talk, councillors push for a refocus on traffic in East Wall. It’s been six years since the area was listed as a priority for improved traffic management.
Councillors want sight again of who gets social housing in their areas, amid confusion about how lists work. “There is just so much confusion,” says Sarah Lawless, who has been on the housing list for 20 years. “The whole system doesn’t make sense.”
Sixty years on, a Star Trek writer is still creating strange new worlds. Diane Duane’s early days writing fan fiction have led to a remarkable career as a novelist, comic writer and screen writer.
Most kids in children’s homes are to be left without a voice in a consultation on services. Children who live in homes run by private companies and charities are not included in the HIQA consultation, because HIQA doesn’t inspect those services.
Who will sit on the advisory board set to shape the future of Dublin city centre? Seven areas of expertise should be represented, said a recent council report.
So tomorrow could bring either a Star Trek-like era without scarcity, or human extinction. Lots to prepare for!
DCC's planning committee now discussing housing in the "pipeline" and staff sharing this chart showing that council planners have approved far more projects than have been built. dublin.moderngov.co.uk/mgConvert2PD...
Looks a bit like if people from certain countries apply for citizenship in Ireland, the DoJ goes to the guards, who go to the CIA or MI6, and ask, "Is this person a terrorist?" and these foreign intel agencies get a silent/shadow veto on this person's citizenship application.
The usual market and events at Farmleigh House are cancelled for 2026, OPW says. With Ireland leading the presidency of the Council of the European Union this year, the house and estate in Phoenix Park are needed, a spokesperson said.
The roll-out of the city's new clothes recycling banks should start at last in April, a council official said recently. Complaints about waste clothes strewn around clothes banks spiked early last year – as did questions around where the deposited clothes actually end up.
