Andrew Butler, a student at Maynooth University, was one of four housing activists sitting around a table, drinking tea, at 34 North Frederick Street on Tuesday evening when they heard an angle grinder at the door. Jack Power reports.
Senator Lynn Ruane tells me about the tattoos on her arms. There's a rose for Jenny, a childhood friend who died in a road accident when they were in their early teens. She and another friend told the tattooist that they were eighteen, writes Patrick Freyne.
From the moment Robert Ballagh opens the door to his studio, there's no mistaking who works there. The front room of the small house in Dublin's north inner city is cluttered with artefacts from the artist's life and work. Mick Heaney reports.
Like a US presidential election when the campaigning starts pretty much as soon as the previous winner is inaugurated, the countdown toward the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan has been ongoing for some time, writes Gerry Thornley.
If these walls could talk . . . Well actually, if you put the gentle squeeze on them, they do. Just inside the large front door of 14 Henrietta Street is a picture of the Holy Family on the wall. It hangs from the same nail that was stuck there when the Brannigan family – 11 children and their parents – lived in the small room, part of the once-grand entrance hall, in a section partitioned off from the doorway. Deirdre Falvey reports.
Schools built over the next four years should be named after the founding figures of the State, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has proposed. Carl O'Brien and Fiach Kelly report.
Franc & his bridezillas are back, Stephen Bryne goes back to sit the Leaving, and cystic fibrosis campaigner Orla Tilsey and her journey to lung transplant. Kevin Courtney on 11 of the best TV shows to watch this week.
