What fascinated him was how, in the face of suburban desolation, these young men were reclaiming their environment. “They’d throw parties in those empty apartments and when people moved out, the council would [cover] them up, and then they’d get this saw out and open it up,” he says. “It was a real cat and mouse thing. The guys could open one flat with the consaw and then go through the balconies or make holes in the walls to keep another flat sequestered. If there was a raid on that flat, where [people]had seen the door being opened, the flat next door would remain untouched, because the doors had been sealed. So there was a lot of subterfuge happening in the buildings. They became really adept at controlling their territory. There were exit routes.”

There were always people dropping in on their way to do something else, hanging out for a bit. I was just another one of that cast of characters READ: Recap: Fenton street taped off as police stand guard ¦ Officers are at the scene on Oldfield StreetJoyriding is how she describes choosing to feel good about what you have, maybe even just to feel OK about it if that's all you can muster but to see the positives, the things that bring you joy, even the little things and focusing on what's working for you and not obsessing about what isn't. Our online marketplace offers a wide selection of food, groceries, lifestyle, and essential items, delivered right to your doorstep.

This was the story of Ballymun, this tightening gyre of social factors and they were the last generation to grow up in that environment What gratitude can do to help change your life......I'll admit I'm cynical and not at all into self-improvement manuals or books offering ways to sort my life out. Maybe that's because any I've dipped into previously just didn't seem to be about me at all, they were for other people with high-falutin careers or fancy lifestyles. So what happens when we stop taking things for granted and start putting some grá* into our gratitude? When we consciously turn our heads and hearts to what we have and focus on the good? In Joy Rider, television presenter and host of the podcast Thanks A Million, Angela Scanlon, presents her guide to tapping into your own natural super resource - joy. So what happens when we stop taking things for granted and start putting some gra* into our gratitude? When we consciously turn our heads and hearts to what we have and focus on the good? In Joy Rider, television presenter and host of the podcast Thanks A Million, Angela Scanlon, presents her guide to tapping into your own natural super resource - joy. I set out years ago to capture something wild and untamed that I felt was disappearing from Irish society – the sad part is that it came true.”He hopes that ultimately what comes across in the images is that these young men were reacting to the system and environment they found themselves in. “The structures that were around this group of young men are hugely significant in this narrative,” he says. “The council was giving people surrender grants to move out of those flats and [moving] people from more vulnerable populations into those flats ... This was the story of Ballymun, this tightening gyre of social factors and they were the last generation to grow up in that environment. So I think the book really tried to dig into that in a subtle way, where there’s the presence of this building and its destruction. This sense of transgression and freedom that these guys are exerting over it is victorious to me.” I suppose the kids in RBW and Streetwise might’ve gone on joyrides in stolen cars and then burned them if they’d thought of it, but I sorta doubt it. The kids I ran with in the 90s—mostly all playacting or, rather, holidaying at being wild-in-the-streets sorts of kids—might’ve talked about it, but never would’ve done it. Even the harder kids we knew, the ones who definitely knew how to boost a car, wouldn’t do much joyriding and definitely wouldn’t burn anything: any cars they boosted were headed to the chop shop; it was a moneymaking venture for them. But, then, we were all more or less bougie American kids. The kids in Joyrider appear to be working class Irish, and there’s quite a bit of difference between growing up under advanced/global capitalism and growing up in a nominally socialist country. I've never read a book before that felt less like reading a book but actually felt as if I was sitting in an Irish kitchen with a cup of tea in hand while having a really open chat with a friend.

We accompany the characters through their transgressions, conquests, and their rituals, both boring and sublime. At times it felt like I was reading Angela’s personal diary, it was so personal and chatty that I forgot it was a book and not a private conversation. She talks about feeling disconnected from yourself and your body, and how to regain that connection. She speculates around how to listen to your specific needs and tend to them, aka performing proper self care, not #selfcaresunday. Inspired by societal changes, Ross McDonnell spent several years working in Ballymun as residents were being relocated in anticipation of the complex’s final demolition. The estate, constructed to replace Dublin’s inner city tenements in the 1960s, was a failure from inception. BALLYMUN – DUBLIN, IRELAND – Image from Ross McDonnell’s book ‘Joyrider’ (2021).READ: Five teens arrested after woman trapped under wall when van ploughs into bungalow ¦ Police, paramedics, firefighters and the force helicopter were scrambled to Fenton His previous project, Trade, was similarly hard hitting. "I made more than 20 separate trips to Honduras, probably 30 trips to Mexico, " he says. "I was on the road, probably three weeks a month shooting and living with these people. [Migrants] are particularly powerless ... I think, at the end of that show, I definitely was carrying a lot of the weight of what I saw. Honduras was particularly violent at that time. People in the film had lost very close family members. We were there for that and then with them for months after. We were kind of grieving along with them." Experience the joy of hassle-free travel and efficient deliveries with JoyRide — the Philippines' leading homegrown superapp for transportation and delivery services. Sister Kerry Smith - who has MS - had been thrown from the sofa during the 'bloodbath'. Now they have had to move out of their home of 44 years as Kerry stays with a friend. The book is a breathless ride: a fleeting but glorious glimmer of transcendence, a middle finger raised to the State and its misguided social experiments.