Archive for June 2019

Charity Begins at Home

By Kathrin Kobus The rugby season is on a break until the World Cup comes along in September, when the club rugby will start anew. For now, the 2018/19  competitions are over. Back in April, president Kieran Mulligan had invited […]

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875 Social Units for Glass Bottle Site

 Peter McNamara On April 11th, An Bord Pleanála gave the go-ahead for the development of an “urban quarter” at the Glass Bottle site at Poolbeg. Crucially, plans for the benighted site will include 875 social and affordable homes. A total […]

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Revolutionising Housing with ‘Vienna Model’

By Peter McNamara Faced with soaring rents, limited supply, and ever-worsening homelessness, Dublin City Council has been looking to untried solutions to solve the city’s housing crisis. Brendan Kenny, the Council’s Deputy Chief Executive, recently spoke about the possibility of […]

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You gonna need a bigger boat(house)

By Kathrin Kobus There is a five-point recruiting call out which Eimear McCormick, now in charge for public relations at St. Patricks rowing club, came up with. “It wasn’t actually a plan, more like some thoughts I just had and […]

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DCC Notes for April/May 2019

Compiled by Geneva Pattison The following motions and responses  were presented at the monthly meetings for the South East Area Committee held on April 8th and on May 13th.  11th April SEAC Notes. Due to the continued growth in office […]

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The Poetry Place

Poetry Ireland had a competition for Joyce Cycle: Love your Bike Competition.  When I tried to write about bicycles I am back again at my two teacher school where the young master always seemed to have a sore head and […]

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The Positive Habit

By Eoin Meegan The Positive Habit is a self help book with a difference. Built around six emotional states – love, calmness, confidence, gratitude, hope and happiness – which the author, therapist Fiona Brennan has identified as being crucial to […]

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Clanna Gael Fontenoy: Marking past and present at Clanns

By Felix O’Regan Treble winning hurling team honoured  Twenty of the 1999 Junior Hurling team, along with family and friends, turned out at the club recently to mark the team’s unique achievement in winning all three competitions that year – […]

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A Century of Irish Radio 1900-2000

By Eoin Meegan Before there was Instagram, before there was Twitter, radio was the primary medium of communication in this country. It was the social media of its day, and we were all addicts Although still vastly popular, it is […]

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‘(A) Dressing Our Hidden Truths’ National Museum’s brave exhibition on Ireland’s dark past

Eoin Meegan Through the medium of glass and sculpture, artist Alison Lowry’s exhibition; ‘(A) Dressing Our Hidden Truths’, now running at the National Museum, shines a light on a world that has, for too long, remained locked away in the […]

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