Not happy with the state of play at metroblogging, the various bloggers involved appear to have given up on that and gone with dublinblog.ie instead. Daragh McGrath says:

Some of the writers over on the Dublin Blog contributed to a similar effort elsewhere over the past few months, but decided that they wanted to move to a platform that we could manage for ourselves.

So, there it is, hopefully you will find it entertaining and enjoyable. All feedback (good and bad) is welcome, so, please do participate!