Following a long stint in Australia, Dublin man Ken Flood returned to these shores to set up home and build a new business centred around specialty coffee and flavoursome, homemade pies and sausage rolls with wife Katie in Stoneybatter. We talked to Ken about Love Supreme, their mouthwatering pies and the unique charm of doing business in Stoneybatter.

It’s striking how much Union 8 has transformed the feel of this Kilmainham junction. It’s bright and buzzing, its energy shining out onto the street like a beacon, drawing customers in.

“What you do has to have an impact. And that has to be considered from lots of different angles.” For Ali Grehan, using design to create lasting impact remains her goal despite changes in the scale of her work.

‘Comfortable luxury, the type of atmosphere that gives you the space to share secrets”. We check out Suesey Street.

A ‘mashup between design, fashion and tech’ Love & Robots is part of a new wave of international design businesses challenging traditional making & selling. Co-founder Emer O’Daly tells us more.

FEED is a new lunchtime venture that prepares hearty, seasonal lunch-boxes for daily delivery to Dublin’s offices, while also helping to provide meals for some of the world’s poorest children. Founder Shane Ryan talks to us about the importance of the triple bottom line at FEED.

Angelina’s is a crowd pleaser. This meal was an exercise in excellent service.

‘Once their service settles and catches up with the food, we have the makings of a seriously special neighbourhood restaurant’. We pay a visit to Bastible.

Newcomer Gemma O’Leary of Inner Island Jewellery talks us through the spirit and skill behind her complex yet deceptively simple collections of fine jewellery with an elegant edge.

In Dublin Seven, coming of age feels like simultaneously signing your death sentence. This is a memorable and vibrant addition to the landscape of Dublin literature.

Tomlin is amusing and surprisingly affecting in the titular role, but that’s about as far as it goes.

Basecamp the outdoor store in Middle Abbey St, Dublin have started a backpack challenge to help make life a little bit easier for those effected by homelessness. They need your help.

It starts and ends with Herbert Simms: the extraordinary City Architect of Dublin in the early twentieth century, and for me his perfect building is Chancery House, a stone’s throw from the Four Courts in Dublin’s North Inner City.

Along with its extraordinarily low prices, the most striking thing about the Forty Foot is probably how brightly lit it is inside.

In the midst of a revival of interest in Irish whiskey A Glass Apart celebrates the culinary nature of the pure drop. We talk ancient grains with author Fionnán O’Connor.

“The logistics are complicated, but it’s worth it”. We catch up with Irish band The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock, who’ve put together a guitar orchestra to perform a new work based on events around the 1913 Lockout.

Based in Dalkey, Slated is a family business run by the Hammonds, who have been connected to slate craftsmanship since the 18th century.

Garvan De Bruir grew up as someone who always made things with his hands, but it was during a year studying abroad during school in Auckland that he became fully immersed in the craft.