The seeds of the Dublin Inquirer were planted at a dinner party in Kyrgyzstan in 2009. Sam Tranum was teaching journalism at the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek when a colleague invited him to his home. Lois Kapila was working as a journalist in the city. Neither remember how Kapila ended up at the party but the pair met and were married within months. Sixteen years later and they share a house in Inchicore, twin four-year-old boys, and a local newspaper. The pair speak to me from the small office space they rent on Thomas Street in the…

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