Everyone should have a home Yet 17,308 human beings are now in emergency accommodation Yet the CSO announced this week there were over 70,000 homes vacant which could be compulsory rented This is a broken social contract This is down to government policy This is #DerelictIreland

Everyone should have a home
Yet 17,308 human beings are now in emergency accommodation
Yet the CSO announced this week there were over 70,000 homes vacant which could be compulsory rented
This is a broken social contract
This is down to government policy
This is #DerelictIreland

#speirghorm

Always a welcome addition to my Inbox (no smut please!)

17,112 without a home
184,213 empty homes

A manufactured housing crisis costing lives & traumatising generations

This is #DerelictIreland
@judesherry.bsky.social & I updated this register earlier in Cork City centre

Video incl music by Meryl Streek

#speirghorm

Really interesting piece & good points about a lot of the assumptions made about intergenerational economics. And Brexit was a bucket of shite all round, glad we moved to Ireland years ago

It was an event organised by the Jewish News, he knew his audience

We have the houses
We don't have the political will to tirn them into homes
Too much money to be made in speculation & hoarding

@judesherry.bsky.social & I collated this data for our 2024 report "This is #DerelictIreland. The Solutions."

Excellent alt text here! Tnx to the always-worth-a-read @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social

Taking advantage of the 2 dry minutes we've had so far this year here in Ireland. Dog is happy with the overflowing stream onto the beach.

The information is there, but at least they're staggering in the right direction, slowly. Wonder how much the derelict house tax will be?

Photo of a black youngster about age 11 or 12 standing in a street with a bicycle. He's flying a Union Jack flag from his handlebars. via The Guardian

Winford Fagan in Handsworth, Birmingham, UK
1970

📷Vanley Burke

So sad, so unique an actor. Loved her work. Condolences to her family, friends & fellow actors 💔

We want to see your mice!

Mouse impression on a Roman roof tile 👇

I was asked to share this video of a 84 year old grandmothers house in Graiguenamanagh co Kilkenny which flooded today. More flood relief is badly needed in Graiguenamanagh and many other areas. Over years Ministers have visited and made promises but not delivered.

Unless you stipulate that you'll have AT LEAST ONE HOOK on every public toilet door you should be denied planning permission.
I don't understand why so many Irish cafes etc don't have bloody hooks? It's winter, I have a coat, bag & an umbrella & I don't want to put any of it on a dirty toilet floor

So fed up I can't make it, I have no feckin luck with your dates 😔

Thank god you did that. I would've spent the rest of my life looking

My word. (Again.)

Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan: "At the end of the day, it's the choice of a person to make these images... technology is moving so fast... even if the law is changed there's no doubt about... the advances are far faster than law is able to respond..."

BBC Radio 4 - Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics, Saturnalia Natalie Haynes celebrates Saturnalia with guests André Vincent and Llewelyn Morgan.

IO SATURNALIA! It’s time to celebrate this Roman winter festival. Here’s our special episode all about it 🥂🎩

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Brilliant! You may like these Alt tags @catsofyore.bsky.social The inner life of cats 😅

Up to €180,000 a year for every family in emergency accommodation is some profitable industry 😢

Historic core Cork city centre
And you talk about anti-social behaviour
Who are the real vandals?
#DerelictIreland #speirgorm

The moment the earliest known man-made fire was uncovered - BBC News Archaeologists in the UK have discovered the world's oldest evidence of humans lighting fires

This is fascinating stuff.
And I will say again that we should have statues for those unknown inventors of ancient times, in stead of certain politicians and rulers who we have to tear down again after a few generations... ;)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

Most Irish people want clean water, not a nitrates derogation Has the Government ever asked the people of Ireland if they agree with pulling on the green jersey to convince Europe to give us another derogation?

"Our waters are crying out for a break from the pollution, Irish people [want] clean water, but our voices are drowned out in a world of political wrangling and vested interest.

[But] you can’t drink politics."

Excellent piece by
@elainemcgoff.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Pod of this week’s Last Word on environment with Matt Cooper on Today FM now available. We did a wrap-up on highs & (mostly) lows of #Cop30, plus we discussed why Iceland is making emergency preparations for possible AMOC shutdown - why isn’t Ireland doing likewise?

www.todayfm.com/podcasts/the...

Our elderly dog isn't well, horrible decision to be taken soon. The younger dog has had 3 operations recently & is still recovering. The Cat caught a mouse & was inordinately pleased with herself. Think of you all in Ukraine every day

International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software

The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.

The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.

You might have thought Question Time was biased.

But you never realised how much.

UKIP never even had a single MP.

How touching 😻

Rents rise for council tenants Tax cuts for developers Irish government housing policy summed up #HowIrelandWorks #DerelictIreland

Rents rise for council tenants
Tax cuts for developers
Irish government housing policy summed up
#HowIrelandWorks #DerelictIreland