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3 days 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.
Council outlines plans to upgrade three sports and fitness centres

3 days ago | 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].
In Rathmines, the remaining residents of the Defence Forces’ married quarters live in mouldy limbo

3 days ago | 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.
An Bord Pleanála, again, refuses permission to change use of Newmarket space from market to retail

3 days 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.
A new book weighs up the history and impact of selling off Ireland’s social homes to tenants

1 week ago | dublininquirer.com | Laoise Neylon

Councils across Ireland sell about 350 homes to social tenants each year, at a discount of 40 percent to 60 percent of homes’ market value. In the generations since independence, the Irish state has sold off around two-thirds of all social housing that was built up to 2000. That would appear to be a major ingredient in the current affordable housing crisis.
Councils are unlawfully refusing people access to homeless accommodation, say lawyers

1 week ago | dublininquirer.com | Laoise Neylon

Charities that provide legal advice on housing issues are calling on council chiefs to revoke a protocol councils rely on to refuse people access to homeless accommodation in their areas. It has no basis in law, solicitors say. The protocol, which was issued in 2023, says a person can only get homeless accommodation in the county where they have their main local connection.
Things to do: Discover the likeness between lakes and lungs, meet the everyman prisoner, get lost in an ambient folksong and witness “white rage” on the silver screen

1 week ago | 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.
Dean: After a term of upheaval, punk troop M(h)aol are still hardcore

1 week ago | dublininquirer.com | Dean Van Nguyen

M(h)aol are a band partial to interruption and upheaval. The release of their exciting debut single “Clementine” was immediately followed by a five-year hiatus. More recent successes with their inaugural EP and first album have been followed by departures from the group’s line-up. This disorder is reflected in M(h)aol’s razorwire punk sound, which trades on a sense of edginess and commotion.
An art exhibition’s “queer ecology” draws inspiration from tales told by Irish children almost a century ago

1 week ago | 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.
The council will keep prices lower at this year’s Smithfield Christmas market, official says

1 week ago | 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.