Meandering canals around Dublin suburbs open to a serious of transgressions reported in the paper (8)
I believe the answer is:
scandals
'a serious of transgressions reported in the paper' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.
'meandering canals around dublin suburbs open' is the wordplay.
'meandering' is an anagram indicator.
'around' is an insertion indicator.
'dublin' becomes 'd' (this could be a standard abbreviation of which I'm unaware).
'open' suggests taking the first letters (I've seen 'opens' mean this).
The initial letter of 'suburbs' is 's'.
'canals' anagrammed gives 'scanal'.
'scanal' placed around 'd' is 'scandal'.
'scandal'+'s'='SCANDALS'
'to' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for scandals that I've seen before include "Caught wearing shoes" , "they're disgraceful" , "Disgraceful actions, subjects of talk" , "Malicious gossip" , "the cause of public opprobrium" .)