Michael Lanigan
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Editor at Dublin Inquirer
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dublininquirer.com | Michael Lanigan
City Desk Council outlines plans to upgrade three sports and fitness centres It has refurbishment projects in the works for facilities in Ballymun, Finglas, and Ballyfermot. Ballymun sports and fitness centre. Photo by Michael Lanigan. June 04 2025 12:02 AM 4 min read Share Author Michael Lanigan is a reporter at Dublin Inquirer. You can reach him at [email protected].
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dublininquirer.com | Michael Lanigan
The ground-floor windows of 17 and 18 Grosvenor Lodge, two semi-detached homes, were boarded up and covered with graffiti, on the second last Friday of May. The council has been investigating whether to add parts of these buildings, which are owned by the Department of Defence, to its derelict sites register. But there are signs that someone’s living here. A white flexible pipe attached to a dryer dangled out of an open window on the first floor.
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dublininquirer.com | Michael Lanigan
Our PicksOur recommendations – no sponsored content, or adverts, just stuff we like. What We’re Made OfIn June 2023, an audience of one hundred and fifty people were invited to Mountjoy Prison by senator Lynn Ruane and artist Grace Dyas. Among those on the list were elected representatives, ministers - current and former - garda representatives, journalists, artists, and high level employees from the HSE and Tusla.
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dublininquirer.com | Michael Lanigan
A light rain fell on Friday evening and Niamh Coffey took shelter under the corrugated roof covering the staircase in the Pallas Projects/Studios’ courtyard. They had just completed a video shoot for Siúnta, the second iteration of their first solo exhibition. The show had launched in the Dublin 8 arts space the previous day. The exhibition takes its title from the Irish word for “seam” or “joint” and Coffey’s idea was to look at the idea of metamorphosis of humans into nature, they said.
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dublininquirer.com | Michael Lanigan
Labour Councillor Fiona Connelly wasn’t particularly nostalgic earlier this week, when she recalled her visit to the Smithfield Christmas market at the end of last year. She had brought both her own children and a local football team to the ice rink, she said. “And the prices were really expensive. Prohibitively expensive.”Friends told her they had felt fleeced, she said.
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