On May 19, the Revolutionary Housing League Ireland announced on Instagram the arrival of the Anne Devlin community centre for the people of the Liberties. Calling out the “ongoing and deliberate neglect of working-class communities by Dublin City Council and the criminals in Leinster House”, the league claimed it had “liberated a long vacant building” from “those who only want to make super profits off it and don’t care about the area.” Located in a former pub the Ardee House, a junction away from Newmarket Square, the building is a throwback to what the area was like before disused light…

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