Dublin InQuirer

More than a century after independence, the Irish State continues to owe annual ground-rent payments connected to aristocratic estates – to earls and dukes – and historic landowners for some public properties.

The amounts are generally modest, according to

Most councillors say they support a plan to set up a new special purpose vehicle (SPV) to revamp the city centre – but there is no agreement among them as to the extent of its role, or whether the city centre is getting a new tsar.

It will be down to councillors to decide whether to set up the vehicle, according to a July

A new version of Fingal's plan for a new town at Dunsink that councillors approved on Thursday evening includes significant changes, including several in response to concerns of Finglas residents.

The development is planned for a 435-hectare area inside the M50, north of Castleknock, and west of Finglas – including the old landfill as a park, not for residential develop...

The Cuán Association, a residents' group for the big development at Grand Canal Harbour, has won awards and grants for their work in the Liberties community, said Ciarán Ó Meachair, a Sinn Féin councillor, at a council meeting on Wednesday afternoon.

"And they can't even hold meetings on site, they can't hold events on site," he said.

Because the association is le...

Walking past the large stone sign at the entrance to Crumlin’s Éamonn Ceannt Park, rapper and producer Michael Ward, who goes by Mickzart, takes a sip of his coffee.

“Do you practice gratitude?” he says. “It’s so important.”

 “Every night, I think, ‘That was a nice coffee earlier’, or ‘That was a nice chat I had at lunch’,” he says. “I pick even just three things...