Lois Kapila

3 weeks ago | dublininquirer.com | Lois Kapila

To mark a decade of Dublin Inquirer, we’re launching a collection of tote bags featuring headlines from the last 10 years. Some ridiculous, some serious. Do take a look. If you’ve a favourite headline that you want us to put on a tote bag – and that you will definitely buy – do let us know and we can personalise that for you. Just email us at [email protected], with a link to the story.

3 weeks ago | dublininquirer.com | Lois Kapila

An Bord Pleanála has refused permission to the owner of The Eight Building, an office block in Newmarket, to change the use of part of its ground floor from a potential market space to retail. It’s the second time that planners have bounced back an application to amend the planning permission. Before 2019, an old warehouse on the site used to host the Green Door Market, selling fresh produce and other foodstuff. It also hosted Sunday markets, including the busy Dublin Flea Market.

1 month ago | dublininquirer.com | Lois Kapila

Valerie Vetter was surprised, she says, when test results showed the tap water in her home has lead. She and her husband had major works done a decade ago to the period home on Shandon Park, a quiet leafy terraced street in Phibsboro. Part of that work was replacing the pipes, she says. “We thought they had done all of them.”Still, she was glad to know, she says. Now she can work out what to do.

1 month ago | dublininquirer.com | Lois Kapila

Dublin city councillors on Monday welcomed the next small step forward on the stalled regeneration of the social housing at Dolphin House: a plan for 30 new homes fronting onto Dolphin’s Barn Road. At a meeting of the council’s South Central Area Committee, Stefan Lowe from the City Architects Division presented the scheme to councillors, an early step in the planning process for council projects, known as Part 8.

1 month ago | dublininquirer.com | Lois Kapila

Angy Skuce arrives first. She props her bike against the railings at the base of the Pepper Canister Church and begins to unroll a flag. Some mornings, just one person makes the walk from the church to the Office of the Taoiseach. On others, it’s more. They always carry post with the same demands, that the Irish government do more to push for an end to the war and atrocities in Gaza. Paul Stassen, a friend and also a doctor, started the walk on 14 March, Skuce says.