The rate of inflation may be officially slowing, but prices are still going up and for locals on the streets of Cabra today, the cost-of-living continues to have a big impact.
It comes as the Coalition leaders and senior ministers will consider a new round of cost-of-living financial supports later today.
For Nancy Kinahan, it is the rising price of food that stings. So much so that sometimes she says she skips meals to save money.
She says: "We do the best we can. It's only him and me and we're both pensioners. So if we haven't got the stuff, we have to go without. Sometimes, I'd buy a dinner for him and I'm just there. I wouldn't have any problem with that. It's to save money to pay for the gas."
Around the corner, Ian Murray runs his tool hire business Carbra Tool Hire. His costs, all of them, have gone up, but he's trying to keep the same prices for customers. He says, in the end, it's himself taking the hit.
He says: "I'm trying to buy a house, trying to save money. You're working all day, trying to do your very best and at the end of it, you're only getting a basic wage.
"With the price of housing and the price of everything gone up, I'm just at a little bit of a standstill at the moment. It just feels like you're in a loop with no progress.
"Renting at the present moment, with increases in price, with nowhere to go, no chance of moving out. I can't really see a way out until this place is extremely successful."
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Close by, Tommy St Leger is reeling from a €400 gas bill that he received this morning.
"What can be done?", he asks.
"It's the worst I've ever seen it. It's so quick how the prices jumped in such a short period of time. It's hard to fathom."
Tommy adds: "I don't know if there's light at the end of the tunnel, but if we get back to halfway near where we used to be, it'd be great."
Tommy says a rise in his pension would help battle the rising costs.
