'IOP Ireland is campaigning to have the new bridge across the Liffey in Dublin at Marlborough Street named for ETS Walton – Ireland’s only physics Nobel prizewinner.'

'Now that Dublin is in our bag, on our Tea Towel and across our Aprons, The Cake Café is going to create a new map of Ireland. We want to fill this map with all of your favorite places in land. Please send us locations that turn you on, fire your imaginations, or just fulfill your dreams; what ever you think should be included. Please pass the request on to friends in far flung parts of the land so they too can send their suggestions; natural or unnatural, animal or man made, a view, a corner of a field, an island or even a journey or hidden places to enjoy a picnic. -- thecakecafe /at/ gmail.com'.

Their map of Dublin is a work of genius -- I love that they include a decent chunk of the Northside, which was a notable failure of the Alljoy Design version. I can't wait to see what they come up with for Ireland.

this is brilliant. Turns out Lenin spoke English with what would now be called a "D4" accent, roysh!

the license under which the open data from various councils around Fingal and Dublin (see www.dublinked.ie) is being published

'an [unofficial] mobile web application that the public can use to find 'Dublin Bikes' stations and information about bike availability'

on a zoomable map; not all stops/routes are covered yet, UI needs work for mobile devices, and hopefully there's an open API -- but still useful already (via Oliver Nash). Sample single-stop result page: http://dublin.acisconnect.com/Popup_Content/WebDisplay/WebDisplay.aspx?StopRef=01279

great UI for a little Dublin oral-history site -- just a GMaps mashup with links to YouTube, but it works very well

Fantastic comparative number crunching on the JC Decaux Dublin Bikes scheme, compared to their other European cities (Brussels, Lyons, Paris, Seville), times of day, busiest stations, rainfall, etc.

A Dublin mystery solved! those white plaster statues that covered Dublin, appearing in almost every council house window, explained

jobs fair this weekend in Dublin, in The Mansion House -- if you're interested in talking to someone about working for Amazon, come along! (plug plug)

hooray, and about time too

'€57 Weekly. Deceptively spacious open plan unfurnished studio in one of Dublin's top locations.<br />
Carbon neutral, hand crafted inuit design. beautiful ambient light leading to rooftop garden. The studio comfortably sleeps five. Pets allowed, no parking. Short term lease for the month of December. Owner is interested in selling if market warms up.' It's an igloo. With a snowman head on top.

great round-up of "live" information sources while Dublin's big freeze continues

pay as you go car-sharing and short-term car rental in Dublin

'At NAMAland we like to look on the bright side. OK, the downside of NAMA is that it's costing you €54 billion -- the upside is that you now own some of the best (and worst) properties in Dublin. So grab your phone, put on your tophat and enjoy your new role as a property tycoon with our augmented reality tour of NAMAland. Remember, we-are-where-we-are, there's no point playing the blame game, we were all living beyond our means and it was like that when we got here...' Excellent! a Layar Augmented Reality layer for Layar which lets you see properties in Dublin owned by NAMA, the National Asset Management Agency

exhibition billing itself as "the world's biggest celebration of games", arrives in Dublin on Sep 20 at the Ambassador, on tour from its home in The Barbican Art Gallery in London. 'Enjoy a totally interactive experience with rare memorabilia and play your way through over 100 playable games from the arcade classics to the latest releases.' tix are EUR10

'a public-transport route-planning service for Dublin city, which shows you how to get from A to B using buses, Luas or DART services. The original version was built during the first Startup Weekend Dublin in May 2010.' Pretty good; although in my tests it wasn't able to find the optimal route, it always came up with something that made a good starting point

from the Irish Times property section: 'There’s a guy in Inchicore with an aircraft simulator in his shed. Not one of those fancy computer games, this is the real thing – a decommissioned 747 simulator, cockpit and all.' Unfortunately, the sim doesn't come with the house

there goes the neighbourhood! 'L Mulligan Grocer, at 18 Stoneybatter, Dublin 7, is a collaboration between whiskey expert Michael Foggarty, craft beer specialist Colin Hession, and award-winning food blogger Seáneen Sullivan, who have been working day and night to get the premises ready for a planned opening next Thursday. Bar food, including their take on the “toasted special”, made with Gubbeen cheese and smoked rare-breed ham, will be served from the outset, with full lunch and dinner menus available from the middle of next month. See lmullingangrocer.com.' Sign me up

excellent work at creating a usable public transport map, and proposing a small, consolidated set of Bus Rapid Transit routes (via Antoin)

a new outdoor weekend market for Dublin, at the O2 on the north quays. good farmer's market selection, and plans to do free-for-all stalls for random members of the public to sell "yard sale" type stuff, a la the Dublin Flea Market

it seems Hot Press have come up with some Paul-McGuinness-esque pro-IMRO one-sided turdery masquerading as journalism. shock me

new lunch spot serving Mexican food in Dublin. hopefully good, haven't tried it yet, menu looks promising though

this year's open-source BarCamp, in Dublin, April 17th. no way I'll be able to get a talk together (again) but hopefully I can attend ;)

new bike shop in Dublin, comes strongly recommended by waider

Dublin's Science Gallery is proving to be a massive success. good news. just wish I could visit more often!

Dublin City Council is offering the ability to public consultation via a Boards forum. cool

great article about Dublin Bus' shortcomings, featuring an interview with Antoin! Very interesting to hear about the upcoming GPS-based accurate bus timetabling service to be visible via their website, that'll be fantastic

this is the plan for tomorrow -- looks good!

Dublin shop selling fairly-traded and cool kids clothes and accessories; they also do stalls at various local markets now and again. think Mae and Bea have a few of their goods already ;)

'Where can I find an available DublinBike?' -- another DublinBikes mashup. hopefully JC Decaux won't C&D this one

wow, looks absolutely excellent! nice work (via Mulley)

another weather forecasting service which may be more reliable than Met Eireann, this time from yr.no, the joint online weather service from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. if only Met Eireann spent our taxes on something of this quality (via Stephen Mulcahy)

the new rental-bike system for Dublin from JC Decaux and Dublin City Council. woeful coverage, and eye-wateringly expensive; don't keep a bike out overnight or it'll cost you EUR30!!

'We will turn Dublin’s tallest building into a giant public canvas—and we want you to play with it. Our simple tools allow you to animate your thoughts and broadcast them on the city skyline.' open from Aug 24 until Sep 24

hooray, a decent review site for Dublin at last