The changing face of Love Supreme

Chapter 28 of Ghost Flight begins:

"One thing about Manor Street: turn your back on it for five minutes and there's another little change. 

"Like this new coffee shop. It used to be a florists, and a Polish grocery before that, and a..."

The real-life Stoneybatter café I had in mind is called Love Supreme.

IMMA #1: Murder in the museum

I always thought the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) would be a bloody great place for a murder.

It's a striking location near the Liffey in Dublin, and is set in the 17th-century Royal Hospital Kilmainham (RHK). The Royal Hospital was a home for retired soldiers for almost 250 years, and I'm told it was modelled on Les Invalides in Paris.

Poolbeg and the Pigeon House

In Dublin some of us have this thing about chimneys. Well, two chimneys in particular. A pair of tall candy-striped chimneys on a peninsula jutting out into the bay and the city's skyline.

Dublin by drone, and Google Earthed to death

Sometimes height is everything. Everything in terms of perspective, status, aerial superiority, power.

Oscars Cafe Bar, Smithfield Square

Americano coffee with milk urn (not actual size)

Oscars in Smithfield on Dublin's northside is celebrating its first birthday this weekend, and in its first twelve months the place looks like it has settled down into a very relaxed groove.