Thursday nights were made for gearing yourself up for the impending weekend — and Bulmers Live At Leopardstown is back once again to make that process a whole lot easier. Kicking off once again on June 7, Bulmers Live At Leopardstown isn’t your typical night out, it’s essentially a series of eight mini-festivals centred around music and horse racing. […]

8 years ago

Hines Group has been given the go-ahead to build a €1 billion town centre in Cherrywood, Irish Building Magazine reports.  The mixed-use development will be spread out over 2.1 million square feet and will include 1,269 build-to-rent apartments, 585,000 square feet of office space and a high-amenity leisure space. (pic: Hines.com) Commencement on the site […]

8 years ago

Update from Luas 5.21pm: Please be advised that there are delays of 15 minutes on Red Line services due to earlier non Luas related incident. Being on a Luas when it gets stuck in a minor delay in irritating enough, but y’know, we get on with it. A few minutes here and there, we’re used to […]

8 years ago

First off, can we just say how grim it is that the cheapest apartments in Dublin city centre-ish we could find on Daft.ie are all priced over 1k a month? You’d have to be either willing to spend half your salary on rent every month or be lucky enough to have an other half to […]

8 years ago

Daft.ie has released its Q1 2018 DART & Luas stop-by-stop house price maps which reveal the average cost of buying a home next to each stop.  Among the key findings are the fact that commuters on the South Dublin coastline pay the most for a property close to a DART station at an average of €625,000. […]

8 years ago

Luas has advised passengers traveling this afternoon that green line services are operating with delays of 20 minutes due to a medical emergency.  Service disruption on the Green Line please see news https://t.co/w5mIjQTkX3 — Luas (@Luas) May 18, 2018 The incident occurred at the Milltown station. Luas has confirmed that red line services are operating […]

8 years ago

Make sure you don’t get caught out. Dublin Bus is advising its customers that five routes will be diverted next week due to road works.  The roadworks will be on the Old Blessington Road on the 28th, 29th and 30th of May from 8pm until 3am each day.  The following diversions have been put in place for the five […]

8 years ago

Two men have been taken to St. James’ hospital after being stabbed earlier this morning at Blackhorse Luas stop in Dublin. A man is being held in Kilmainham Garda Station.  A garda spokesperson told Lovin Dublin: “Gardai are investigating a serious assault that occurred at the Blackhorse Luas Stop, Inchicore on Thursday the 17th of […]

8 years ago

When Ed Sheeran played Galway at the weekend, Salthill was a no-go. The place is normally a driver’s nightmare at the best of times anyways but with this man in time, only a fool would even think about driving anywhere near it.  And it looks like the ‘Perfect’ musician is going to cause the same […]

8 years ago

Residents of rural South County Dublin village Kilternan have objected to a proposed six-storey block of Georgian-style apartment buildings in the vicinity.  Locals in the small village at the foot of the Dublin mountains have deemed the development “totally unsuitable” according to The Irish Times. The application for planning permission from Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council states […]

8 years ago

There’s calls for Luas operator Transdev to freeze fares for ‘at least one year’ after the tram faced criticism for recent service issues.  Dublin Live reports that Fine Gael Senator Neale Richmond called the level of service in recent months “appalling”. Senator Richmond said: “Over the past number of months, the roughly 100,000 daily Luas users have […]

8 years ago

Update 14.45: Connolly station is reopening and the security alert is lifted. Security alert lifted, Connolly Station reopening after Army attended to suspect item, historic in nature. Full services resuming, delays remaining but will ease pic.twitter.com/Ht8dzVagpM — Iarnród Éireann (@IrishRail) April 30, 2018 Connolly Station is closed due to a security alert after a “suspicious item” […]

8 years ago