Posted by Cian Ginty
Blogs, Docklands, Dublin City, Dublin Observed, Featured Updates, News
Sunday, April 1st, 2012
Estimating the size of the crowd at protests can be a pain the head. However, things get vastly easier if the protest stops somewhere and you have fairly clear photographs of the protesters and the area they are occupying, ideally taken from a vantage point. The household charge protest yesterday meets those requirements when it was outside the Dublin [...]
Posted by Cian Ginty
Dublin City, Dublin Observed, Featured Updates, Phibsborough
Thursday, March 29th, 2012
Pictured below is what happened, apparently very much so unplanned, when Grangegorman Upper in Dublin 7 was closed off for road works and the work did not start straight away. Children and toddlers played on the street outside their houses: It’s a reminder that streets don’t all have to be car parks and rat runs. Why isn’t [...]
Posted by Jessie Magee
Blogs, Dublin City, Dublin Observed, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Features, Fingal, South Dublin
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
Joe Higgins, searing political wit and staunch defender of the working classes, is a tough act to follow. But 27-year-old Paul Murphy is quietly confident that he can fill the shoes of the great Socialist when he takes over as Dublin MEP next month. A native of Ballinteer who has been assistant to Joe Higgins [...]
Posted by Cian Ginty
Dublin City, Dublin Observed, Featured Updates, Features
Friday, March 25th, 2011
Dublin Bikes has gone from predictions of mass theft and vandalism, to one of the most successful on-street bicycle rental schemes in the world, so the big question is: “When will it expand?” On the back of the scheme smashing all expectations in its first year, Dublin City Council has drawn up a plan to expand across the [...]
Posted by Cian Ginty
Blogs, Dublin City, Dublin Observed, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Featured Updates, Fingal, South Dublin
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
We don’t need rail in Dublin, buses will do, and rail projects are “white elephants.” Rail is a waste and will cost us dearly, we can’t afford it. Does this sound familiar? From Dart to Luas and now Metro North, the story from the opposition is the same. The record seems to be playing the same tune even after [...]
Posted by Cian Ginty
Blogs, City Centre, Dublin City, Dublin Observed, Featured Updates
Monday, March 7th, 2011
It could nearly be mistaken for a headshop selling legal highs. Some people even view the products at Happy Pills as legal highs — sweets. There are different kinds of sweets on offer but the real selling point is mixed sweets in a jar that you stuff in as many as you can. Strangely, there’s [...]
Posted by Cian Ginty
Blogs, City Centre, Dublin City, Dublin Observed, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Featured Updates, Fingal, South Dublin
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
Dublin City Council have been installing Luas-like electronic, real-time timetables at bus stops since last last year. It should mean an end to waiting for a bus that for some reason is never going to come, but how well does it work? We watched one of the units today for a short time outside Xtra-vision in Fairview [...]
Posted by Cian Ginty
Ballsbridge, Blogs, City Centre, Clontarf, Docklands, Donnybrook, Dublin City, Dublin Observed, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, East Wall, Featured Updates, Fingal, Ranelagh, Rathmines
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
How does a cycle lane cost so much? It seems mainly because of junction crossing, boardwalks, CCTV, bridges and street water drainage upgrades. Many of which are not directly linked with cycling. People trying to walk along the canal will see major improvements — the main one being able to cross junctions without having to [...]
Posted by Cian Ginty
Blogs, Dublin Observed, Featured Updates
Friday, January 7th, 2011
After we wrote about Metro North’s enabling works, it was mentioned on Twitter that the O’Connell Monument will be removed within weeks. However, the RPA tells us that this is not to happen. The O’Connell Monument is only planned to be removed before the main works start. However, it said that monuments to James Larkin [...]
Posted by Cian Ginty
Blogs, Dalkey, Dublin Observed, Dun Laoghaire, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown
Friday, January 7th, 2011
The Metals walking and cycling route in Dun Laoghaire is to be opened as a Irish Heart Foundation Slí na Sláinte walking route next week, here’s the press release for the council: As part of the Irish Sports Council’s National Walking Event, in conjunction with Operation Transformation, a new Irish Heart Foundation Slí na Sláinte [...]
