Chats in the Flats Creator Richie Power on Showing the Real Working-Class Dublin

People Are Quick to Judge the Flats. Very Few Ever Stop
to Listen. Richie Power Is Changing That.


Richie Power grew up in the Liberties and created Chats in the
Flats — the Instagram page showcasing a side of working-class
Dublin that rarely makes the headlines: the humour, the talent,
the grief, the pride and the sense of community behind the
concrete. In a media landscape built on clicks and the worst-case
story, Richie set out to show the everyday people instead.


Ryan sits down with him for a warm, wide-ranging conversation
about community, identity, the power of the mind and the Dublin
we're at risk of losing.


What we get into:


Growing up in the Liberties and only realising later how
different it was

Why he built Chats in the Flats one authentic take at a time,
against the hook-and-chop grain of social media

How the local credit union helped him get it off the ground

Why the media only seems to notice the flats when something
bad happens

The accent as identity — and why he'll pronounce his words
but never change how he speaks

Old Dublin, and the fear that we're losing it block by block

Why he keeps his focus local — self, family, community —
before anything else

The doctor's throwaway comment that changed how Richie's
guest on the show, Ryan, thinks about the mind forever

His late mother's words: "Let yesterday's news get you
through this journey. Don't let this journey ruin yesterday's
news"

Why being Irish, and being proud of where you're from, is a
kind of superpower



Ryan Curtis is a former Irish MMA fighter who was paralysed from
the neck down and told he would never walk again. Made in Chaos
exists to platform guests who've turned adversity into
hard-earned wisdom worth sharing.


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