In an unfamiliar city, it seemed like a place Aysar Hamad could find protection. The Department of Justice says he was blocking the entrance.

There are more rented homes now than there were in 2016, it shows. Even as there are fewer registered tenancies, according to the Residential Tenancies Board.

There are wider questions, too, about who has access to the many communal amenities at The Davitt, at what price – and how that fits with planning rules.

The new version of their project, now called “Tender”, involves distributing postcards that people can send to the gallery to share their views on the situation.

Instead of reducing rents to tempt more students, they’ve been going to the council and getting permission to use it for short-term lets and co-living.

It can look cheap and tacky, make life harder for people trying not to drink, and advertise drinking to children, critics say.

Hazel De Nortúin says she hopes Café Glic will be a base for people in the area who want to practice their Irish.

In a survey of more than 1,000 recent adverts for jobs in Dublin, two-thirds didn’t say the wage. Some say that’s private, others that it should be public.

It wasn’t until after cabinet had decided to lift it that the public learnt the full extent of how many households had eviction notices.

But when he went to the International Organisation for Migration, they said they wouldn’t help him get there because his home is too dangerous.

“I think it's wrong for the kids growing up,” says Dee Roche, who lives in Hamilton Gardens in Cabra. “It's starting a divide among the kids.”

“The trial is the consultation,” Brendan O’Brian said, explaining the new Department of Transport guidelines for medium-sized projects.

As the old flat complex in the north inner city is torn down, have councillors made the right choice for what will replace it?

Since the RTB won’t hear a case unless it knows the landlord’s full name, his tenants struggled to get their complaints about him heard.

They’ve been rescued from the darkness of council storage, restored and electrified. Ready for a new life in the park.

Hours later, he came out in a coma – and subsequently died. His family are calling on Dublin city councillors to pass a motion of support for a public inquiry.

The works could take years, so in the meantime the Victorian building should be used for cultural events, says Social Democrats Councillor Cat O’Driscoll.

Instead of reducing rents to tempt more students, they’ve been going to the council and getting permission to use it for short-term lets and co-living.

Few of the photos have seen the light of day since they were originally taken, in 1980–83. Now they’re due to be presented to the Irish Queer Archive.

It can look cheap and tacky, make life harder for people trying not to drink, and advertise drinking to children, critics say.

“How do kids integrate in a community?” says Niamh Fox, one of the residents. “It's just not right.”

Since Fusco’s opened in 1963, ray has been on the menu.

A council spokesperson says the building, which is meant to be a homeless hostel, is not in use because it needs remedial work and a new fire cert.

Members of the same family have lived in this iconic building, or earlier incarnations of it, in Temple Bar since the 1600s.

Nial Ring has far outpaced earlier lord mayors. He’s simply more sociable than others, he says. “The Mansion House is belonging to the people of Dublin.”

A receiver sold Shannon Chance’s apartment in Smithfield to a big company landlord for a price well below what she says she’d have paid to buy it herself.

Some councillors say it’s necessary, as city-centre traffic patterns have been changing. But taxi drivers say it would be bad for customers.

If the service doesn’t improve, people might start driving more, making climate-emissions targets even harder to reach, transport experts say.

These included a change that would affect a proposal to build 657 homes near St Anne’s Park.

“People are sitting on assets and they don’t need the rent,” says Francis Doherty, communications officer at the Peter McVerry Trust.

The building’s been boarded up since at least 2018.

The premises on Nelson Street in Phibsboro has rooms for 28 people who are homeless and is rented to Dublin City Council on a long-term lease.

"This month’s cover is inspired by Dublin’s 'Fortress Grand Canal', perhaps the most striking example of hostile architecture, of designing against humanity, in the city in recent years."

“A planning enforcement file will be opened and investigations will be carried out,” a council spokesperson says.

Graphic Designer Jarlath Hayes created the famous Irish modernist typeface Tuam Uncial in the 70s.

This month’s cover is a pastiche of the “Doors of Dublin” poster and postcard, substituting its polished Georgian doors with doors to vacant buildings and makeshift homes.

As years have passed and the council has not rolled out its planned 350 bike bunkers, people have been finding their own solutions – but planning is a barrier.

These “refuge islands” are a symptom of wider issues around pedestrian infrastructure, walking tour guides say.

It has given the job of installing a “next generation” ticketing system to Spanish defence and technology company Indra.

The pilot at Ballybough House transformed two old, run-down council flats into a larger, modern A-rated home. It could be replicated elsewhere.

It’s “Not acceptable that major public infra[structure is] being consistently disrupted by a single private business and its clients,” a local councillor said Tuesday.

The Courts Service, their owner, says it is renovating the buildings. Says Green Party MEP Ciarán Cuffe: “Heads should roll over these things.”

The owner, the HSE, has a legal obligation to take care of this Victorian-era building of “exceptional architectural merit”.

The Road Safety Authority cites GDPR as its reason, but deputy commissioner for the Data Protection Commission says that directive shouldn’t prevent the publication of this data.

Local groups in Phibsboro, Cabra and Stoneybatter are asking residents of those areas to help them create a “circular economy” map.

Romance writer Daisy Cummins works from her home office in Rialto, where she’s just completed her 50th book for the Mills & Boon publishing franchise.

A local group had been pushing the council to get into the building, to make sure it was being cared for – fearing something like this might happen.

The Unitarian Church on St Stephen’s Green was built on land bought with money from Thomas Wilson, who owned hundreds of enslaved people in Trinidad.

For heritage reasons, and also environmental ones, Dublin City Council is working on a plan to improve rather than discard Ballybough House, designed by Herbert Simms, and built in 1938.

Inspired by a cycle-bus initiative in Galway, the Riverview Educate Together cycle bus isn’t the only one in the Dublin area. There are also cycle buses in Ballinteer and Portmarnock.

These defenders are out on the street loudly counter-protesting, and also working behind the scenes to have quiet conversations with friends and neighbours.

The Department of Housing says it has no plans to change the law to cut the paperwork required for residents to install front-garden bike storage.

A council official said it was up to Gardaí to enforce the 24/7 ban. Gardaí have not responded to queries about what they’re doing to enforce it.

All the listings were around the Liberties, including a whole block on Long’s Place. They weren’t up anymore on Tuesday night.

The Dublin Region Homeless Executive says that under an agreed protocol only disused or derelict tents are removed, while those who are homeless say different.

That will help the buses run more smoothly, and open up space for nicer walking and cycling routes, said Dublin City Council transport head Brendan O’Brien.

There would be one-way cycle lanes, separated from motor-vehicle lanes by kerbs, on either side of the 3.1km route from Charlemont to Clonskeagh Road.

Hola Taxi’s founder says the new app will share profits with drivers who sign up as “co-founders” – and won’t add extra fees onto customers’ fares like other apps.

Almost 400 of the apartments proposed for former council land at O’Devaney Gardens would not have adequate daylight in living room-kitchens, shows a daylight sunlight report.

Most of Ireland’s flowers are imported year round from Holland, says Mélie Desbrosse. “It doesn’t make sense to me that flowers have to take planes.”