Eoin Glackin
@eoinglackin.bsky.social
Musician, songwriter, broadcaster, journalist, neat guy.
Over 70% of people incarcerated in Ireland suffer from substance addiction. I investigated the stark reality of the access to treatment within the system. Please have a read. @dublininquirer.com
More than 900 people are on waitlists for addiction supports in Ireland’s prisons
The longest queue is in Dublin’s Mountjoy, where more than 240 people languish on the waitlist for counselling for substance addiction.
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September 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Over 70% of people incarcerated in Ireland suffer from substance addiction. I investigated the stark reality of the access to treatment within the system. Please have a read. @dublininquirer.com
Great news this week for Ayrfield United FC @dublininquirer.com
Ayrfield United FC set to turn former Credit Union into long-awaited clubhouse
It’ll be used by more than the football team, said club committee member Keith O’Connell, but open to other local groups and a youth club too.
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July 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Great news this week for Ayrfield United FC @dublininquirer.com
The mystery of the blue bin bags... Where are they still coming from?? 🤔 "Unscrupulous companies" says one councillor 😄 @dublininquirer.com
Northside councillors debate the mystery of the blue bin bag bandits
“Any blue bags that are there, we're not sure who's giving them out.”
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July 25, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The mystery of the blue bin bags... Where are they still coming from?? 🤔 "Unscrupulous companies" says one councillor 😄 @dublininquirer.com
Piece for @dublininquirer.com , speaking to three men who don't want to leave their homes in St Anne's Court Senior Citizens Complex, ahead of a planned demolition and redevelopment.
A senior citizens complex in Raheny is due to be knocked and rebuilt – but some tenants are hanging on
The doors of the two-storey blocks at St Anne's Court are now boarded over. All doors, that is, but three.
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July 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Piece for @dublininquirer.com , speaking to three men who don't want to leave their homes in St Anne's Court Senior Citizens Complex, ahead of a planned demolition and redevelopment.
A look into recent planning applications for Jamestown Industrial Estate, Finglas. By myself and Lois Kapila @dublininquirer.com #JamestownMasterplan
Planning applications begin to file in for homes on industrial estate in Finglas
Two applications have gone in in recent months for plots on the edges of the big Jamestown Business Park.
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June 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
A look into recent planning applications for Jamestown Industrial Estate, Finglas. By myself and Lois Kapila @dublininquirer.com #JamestownMasterplan
The cancellation of the Social Housing Public-Private Partnership Programme has caused huge distress for residents of Basin Street Flats, who thought redevelopment was imminent. Piece by me in @dublininquirer.com
Residents of Basin Street flats fear their long-promised redevelopment is now in limbo
Many of the social housing projects paused recently were on vacant sites but this one is different, says a local councillor.
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June 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The cancellation of the Social Housing Public-Private Partnership Programme has caused huge distress for residents of Basin Street Flats, who thought redevelopment was imminent. Piece by me in @dublininquirer.com
Piece for @dublininquirer.com about ongoing concerns that survivors are not involved in the planning for the new National Centre for Research and Remembrance on the Magdalane Laundry site on Sean McDermott Street.
Survivors excluded from planning of memorial centre on former Magdalene Laundry site, councillors warn
“I don't know how many times we have to ask to be included.”
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June 23, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Piece for @dublininquirer.com about ongoing concerns that survivors are not involved in the planning for the new National Centre for Research and Remembrance on the Magdalane Laundry site on Sean McDermott Street.
New piece for @dublininquirer.com about Dublin City Council's well-regarded Neighbour Transport Scheme, that quietly went away.
Councillors wonder what’s become of those transport schemes to make neighbourhoods safer
They recite schemes that were promised, or piloted, but seem to have gone nowhere. A council spokesperson said similar initiatives still exist.
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June 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
New piece for @dublininquirer.com about Dublin City Council's well-regarded Neighbour Transport Scheme, that quietly went away.
New piece for @dublininquirer.com
In Clontarf, there are promises that the sandbags are to go – but few details on what may replace them
Whatever temporary measures are put in place, nothing is ever going to do the job like a big solid concrete wall, says Maynooth University’s Peter Thorne.
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June 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
New piece for @dublininquirer.com
A piece I wrote three years ago about Conor McGregor and how as a one-time fan, I had to eventually face the music.
Tapping out from Conor McGregor: How this fan stopped trying to excuse the inexcusable
By Eoin Glackin Image Creative Commons Glory days (they’ll pass you by): For a generation of Irish people, myself included, mixed martial artist Conor McGregor’s relentless run through the UFC’s fe…
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November 24, 2024 at 5:12 PM
A piece I wrote three years ago about Conor McGregor and how as a one-time fan, I had to eventually face the music.