Moss Reid's Places

Less than a month after the tribute to Stormzy went up in Dublin's Smithfield district, another cool mural has arrived just around t...

This mural tribute to rapper Stormzy has appeared overnight on the wall of the old Block T building on the Haymarket side of Smithfield ...

Damn Fine Print was set up in 2011 as Dublin's first "community easy access screen print studio".

Locksmiths can tell you a thing about the ups and downs of an area, the comings and goings in the neighbourhood, new homeowners, fledglin...

Ireland's juryless courts are back in the news this week after two gangland shootings in Dublin, and Sinn Fein has made the abolit...

I was a big fan of the Tully's Tiles sign in Smithfield. Its crucifix-like qualities reminded me of Salvador Dali’s painting Christ o...

The rise of the drones is a recurring theme in the third Moss Reid book Ghost Flight . Here's some recent aerial footage from a drone ...

Back in 1965, Smithfield Square and other parts of the northside of Dublin were transformed into Berlin, to much excitement and hoopla. ...

Dublin doesn't have a Chinatown. Not officially. And I kinda blame the officials.

At one time the Grange Inn at 19 Grangegorman Road Lower was a cosy, quiet, great little local working-class bar. It was originally going...

If there's one certainty in life it's death. And if there's one certainty in retail and catering life it's that no busine...

Americano coffee with milk urn (not actual size) Oscars in Smithfield on Dublin's northside is celebrating its first birthday this w...

The Luas - Dublin's light rail or tram system - is only a decade old, yet it is now deeply embedded in the life of the city centre. It...

Stoneybatter is the centre of Moss Reid's universe in my series of crime novels about the foodie PI. But where exactly is Stoneybatte...

The first book in the 'Moss Reid' series, Another Case in Cowtown,  is pretty much a “Stoneybatter novel”. I've compiled a map ...

Stoneybatter, Dublin, Ireland, December 2013 Whistle-blowers, corrupt councillors, top-ups, dig-outs, missing persons and a dead body or ...

Dublin, Ireland, summer 2013. It’s the middle of a heatwave, and things are hotting up for Moss Reid. He’s the kind of downscale privat...