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Analogue Appreciation: For Those I Love

Carving The Stone — In an ever more digital, online world, we ask our favourite artists about their most cherished pieces of physical culture. Today, it’s post-club producer-songwriter For Those I Love.

  • Music
  • David Balfe aka For Those I Love
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Bohemian FC is more than a football club

Carefree, wherever you may be — With rock star friends, a fierce commitment to Palestinian solidarity and their very own climate justice officer, north Dublin’s fan-owned team make their presence felt far beyond the pitch.

  • Sport
  • Tiernan Cannon

Fontaines D.C. sponsor Ireland’s Bohemian FC’s new kit to raise money for Palestine

Made in partnership with the designers at the country’s oldest, 100 per cent fan owned football club, profits will go to Medical Aid for Palestinians.

  • Music
  • Isaac Muk

Gritty scenes of Dublin in the 1970s

In his new book, Dublin City, Suburbs & County 1970s, photographer Keith Nolan relives the spirit and warmth of the Irish capital.

  • Photography
  • Miss Rosen

How Dublin‘s public space problem hurts young people

Fenced in — The Irish Government’s attacks on outdoor space are disproportionately harming the city’s youth, who face exorbitant rent prices and already have very few places to go.

  • Activism
  • Kelly Doherty

Photos celebrating community spirit in everyday Ireland

The Light of Day — Photographer Tony O'Shea reflects on four decades spent capturing the reverie, isolation and humanity of Dublin and County Kerry.

  • Culture
  • Charlotte Rawlings

Sheriff Street: Gritty shots of '80s Dublin

Dirty old town — As a young man fresh out of school, Colm Pierce just like Dublin was going nowhere. Until he picked up a camera and began documenting life in one of the city's most deprived neighbourhoods.

  • Photography
  • Miss Rosen

Mark O’Connell’s guide to surviving the apocalypse

Notes from the end of the world — In his new book, Notes From An Apocalypse, the Irish author investigates our in-built obsession with the end of the world – meeting preppers, bunker entrepreneurs and would-be Mars colonists from around the globe.

  • Books
  • Colin Gannon

A sold-out city? The fight to save Dublin’s nightlife

Take back the night — In the past year alone, 79 hotels were given the go-ahead for construction or large-scale refurbishment in Dublin – often at the expense of cultural spaces. As the threat of full-scale ‘hotelisation’ looms, we speak to the people fighting back.

  • Activism
  • Colin Gannon

Dublin activists are rebelling against slum landlords

’Need not greed’ — This month, protestors in Ireland are taking to the streets to demonstrate against the country’s housing crisis. Writer Michael Lanigan joins them on their quest for justice.

  • Activism
  • Michael Lanigan

Meet Subset: The street art collective taking back Dublin

A city reclaimed — With their bold ongoing project, Grey Area, Irish collective SUBSET are protesting the criminalisation and censorship of street art.

  • Art
  • Michael Lanigan

Tales from Dublin’s notorious HIV/AIDS separation unit

Positive in prison — In the ’80s, Dublin's largest prison – Mountjoy Jail – created a separation unit for HIV/AIDS sufferers. Now, their harrowing stories are being brought back to life.

  • Reportage
  • Simon Doherty

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