Standing near his car in the car park outside the Blanchardstown Shopping Centre Friday, Sukhwinder Singh says he thinks it’s a good idea to lower speed limits. The car park was lined with cars ...

He’s in his work clothes, paint stains over his shirt and trousers and a faint trace of dark paint on his right cheek. “Ah, Thomas, you didn’t know?” says Gina Priestman. Gina and her dad, Norman ...

Friends of the Irish Environment has started proceedings for a judicial review of a decision by Fingal County Council allowing a developer to build more homes in Baldoyle before it puts in better ...

The signs of an ambitious effort to build out Dublin city’s network of cycle routes are everywhere. There are dashed white lines, rusty-red cycle tracks, bollards and bollards and bollards – and the ...

The government is looking at building a new waste-to-energy incinerator to deal with the country’s growing river of waste. Ireland’s existing landfills and incinerators aren’t enough to handle the ...

The identity of the place we call Phibsborough is made, in part at least, by the existence of a pre-cast-clad concrete office building, carpark and shopping centre that hangs out on the corner of ...

Dublin City Council plans to add “rainscapes” in five places in the city to sop up heavy rainfall, said John Stack, a senior executive engineer for the council’s Protection of Water Bodies Office on ...

In a document laying out its pitch, the team behind Progress Ireland talk a lot about powers of persuasion. “A core competency of our org will be persuasion,” it says. They’ll bag high-profile ...

Dublin City Council is on track to meet its social housing target for this year, said Mick Mulhern, the council’s housing manager on Tuesday. The council was tasked, under “Housing for All”, the ...

When the Housing First model – that of simply giving a home and supports to those who are long-term homeless – was piloted in Ireland in 2011, and launched fully in 2014, the main challenge was ...

In the summer of 1981 Cáit (Catherine Clinch), a young girl pushed to the sidelines of an ever growing family, stays with distant relatives while her mother prepares for the arrival of a new baby. An ...

Rasel Hossain points towards the jury-rigged floral curtain in the apartment’s small entrance. Strung on a pole, it’s all that now conceals the toilet from the rest of the shared flat. Further inside, ...