Kik1977
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We really are in peak gaslighting season
Cork city council endorse housing protest yet refuse to fully enforce law in place since 1990 resulting in epidemic of vacancy & dereliction in city centre costing lives
Can't wait to see how they protest against themselves #DerelictIreland
Cork city council endorse housing protest yet refuse to fully enforce law in place since 1990 resulting in epidemic of vacancy & dereliction in city centre costing lives
Can't wait to see how they protest against themselves #DerelictIreland
September 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
We really are in peak gaslighting season
Cork city council endorse housing protest yet refuse to fully enforce law in place since 1990 resulting in epidemic of vacancy & dereliction in city centre costing lives
Can't wait to see how they protest against themselves #DerelictIreland
Cork city council endorse housing protest yet refuse to fully enforce law in place since 1990 resulting in epidemic of vacancy & dereliction in city centre costing lives
Can't wait to see how they protest against themselves #DerelictIreland
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What if Alien (1979) wasn’t just a sci-fi horror film, but a warning about corporate betrayal and working-class struggles?
Forget Xenomorphs: The real threat in Alien was wage inequality and corporate greed
www.bigissue.com
August 31, 2025 at 6:15 AM
What if Alien (1979) wasn’t just a sci-fi horror film, but a warning about corporate betrayal and working-class struggles?
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Israel received twice the funding from the European Innovation Fund than Ireland and more 2/3 of all #EU countries combined
Outrageous that an apartheid settler-colonial state currently carrying out genocide gets so much EU money as part of Horizon.
#Spéirgorm
old.reddit.com/r/ireland/co...
Outrageous that an apartheid settler-colonial state currently carrying out genocide gets so much EU money as part of Horizon.
#Spéirgorm
old.reddit.com/r/ireland/co...
Israel received twice the funding from the European Innovation Fund than Ireland and more 2/3 of all EU countries combined
Source: https://www.lira.ltd/the-eic-accelerator-cumulative-data-stats-3/ This is cumulative amounts since 2021
old.reddit.com
August 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Israel received twice the funding from the European Innovation Fund than Ireland and more 2/3 of all #EU countries combined
Outrageous that an apartheid settler-colonial state currently carrying out genocide gets so much EU money as part of Horizon.
#Spéirgorm
old.reddit.com/r/ireland/co...
Outrageous that an apartheid settler-colonial state currently carrying out genocide gets so much EU money as part of Horizon.
#Spéirgorm
old.reddit.com/r/ireland/co...
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Look out for my critical piece in this weekend’s Irish Times about the terrible tower on Tara Street that has photobombed itself into almost every important vista in Dublin city centre. I’ve named everyone involved in this misconceived project and likened it to a sci-fi portal of darkness …
July 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Look out for my critical piece in this weekend’s Irish Times about the terrible tower on Tara Street that has photobombed itself into almost every important vista in Dublin city centre. I’ve named everyone involved in this misconceived project and likened it to a sci-fi portal of darkness …
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Interesting read “A new cost-rental apartment in Vienna for €681 a month. Why’s it more than double that in Dublin?”
www.dublininquirer.com/a-new-cost-r...
www.dublininquirer.com/a-new-cost-r...
A new cost-rental apartment in Vienna for €681 a month. Why’s it more than double that in Dublin?
Can more be done to bring down cost-rental rents in Dublin?
www.dublininquirer.com
July 4, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Interesting read “A new cost-rental apartment in Vienna for €681 a month. Why’s it more than double that in Dublin?”
www.dublininquirer.com/a-new-cost-r...
www.dublininquirer.com/a-new-cost-r...
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Tomorrow! Join our Palestine Bloc at the CATU All Ireland Housing Demo. Palestinians are victims of failed housing policy, illegal settlements profiting from their displacement, and of apartheid Israel’s mass forced displacement.
#HomesForAll #FreePalestine
#HomesForAll #FreePalestine
July 4, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Tomorrow! Join our Palestine Bloc at the CATU All Ireland Housing Demo. Palestinians are victims of failed housing policy, illegal settlements profiting from their displacement, and of apartheid Israel’s mass forced displacement.
#HomesForAll #FreePalestine
#HomesForAll #FreePalestine
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A world of flecked green-dappled light: the magic of an Irish rainforest
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June 3, 2025 at 4:42 AM
A world of flecked green-dappled light: the magic of an Irish rainforest
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Theres a serious lack of squatting in #DerelictIreland
Bring in 'use it or lose it' & we wouldn't be long seeing properties like this back in use as homes
Western Road, Cork City #DerelictIreland
Western Road, Cork City #DerelictIreland
April 8, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Theres a serious lack of squatting in #DerelictIreland
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If excuses built homes we would be laughing in Ireland
Why hasn't the crack down on airbnb happened already?
Why no mention of the 180k+ empty homes?
The reality is developers are waiting for "tax incentives designed to stimulate building"
#DerelictIreland
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...
Why hasn't the crack down on airbnb happened already?
Why no mention of the 180k+ empty homes?
The reality is developers are waiting for "tax incentives designed to stimulate building"
#DerelictIreland
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...
‘Nothing can happen without it’: Housing delayed by out-of-date planning policy
Ireland ‘cannot move forward’ on meeting housing targets without revised framework, expert says
www.irishtimes.com
March 24, 2025 at 8:05 AM
If excuses built homes we would be laughing in Ireland
Why hasn't the crack down on airbnb happened already?
Why no mention of the 180k+ empty homes?
The reality is developers are waiting for "tax incentives designed to stimulate building"
#DerelictIreland
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...
Why hasn't the crack down on airbnb happened already?
Why no mention of the 180k+ empty homes?
The reality is developers are waiting for "tax incentives designed to stimulate building"
#DerelictIreland
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...
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Disturbed's David Draiman signed the IDF bomb last summer.
http://jrnl.ie/6641620
http://jrnl.ie/6641620
Calls for promoter MCD and 3Arena to cancel gig featuring musician who signed Israeli bomb
Disturbed’s David Draiman signed the IDF bomb last summer.
jrnl.ie
March 7, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Disturbed's David Draiman signed the IDF bomb last summer.
http://jrnl.ie/6641620
http://jrnl.ie/6641620
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Tourist guide:
"On your left & on your right are good example of Dublins infamous dereliction"
Tourist:
"But why would someone leave properties empty?"
Guide:
"Because they can, the city council don't care & government turn a blind eye because there is money to be made in #DerelictIreland"
"On your left & on your right are good example of Dublins infamous dereliction"
Tourist:
"But why would someone leave properties empty?"
Guide:
"Because they can, the city council don't care & government turn a blind eye because there is money to be made in #DerelictIreland"
March 3, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Tourist guide:
"On your left & on your right are good example of Dublins infamous dereliction"
Tourist:
"But why would someone leave properties empty?"
Guide:
"Because they can, the city council don't care & government turn a blind eye because there is money to be made in #DerelictIreland"
"On your left & on your right are good example of Dublins infamous dereliction"
Tourist:
"But why would someone leave properties empty?"
Guide:
"Because they can, the city council don't care & government turn a blind eye because there is money to be made in #DerelictIreland"
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Israel thinks it can do whatever it wants because, let’s face it, Israel gets away with doing whatever it wants.
- Israel deports European Parliament delegation due to travel to Palestine -
- Israel deports European Parliament delegation due to travel to Palestine -
February 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Israel thinks it can do whatever it wants because, let’s face it, Israel gets away with doing whatever it wants.
- Israel deports European Parliament delegation due to travel to Palestine -
- Israel deports European Parliament delegation due to travel to Palestine -
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We are juggling four separate legal threats at the moment here at Dublin Inquirer.
February 25, 2025 at 11:19 AM
We are juggling four separate legal threats at the moment here at Dublin Inquirer.
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80,000 empty home but the solution is to put people in sheds in people's back gardens. Of course! 🙃
80,000 empty homes
How does that make sense? It doesn't
Listen to @judesherry.bsky.social & @orla-hegarty.bsky.social discuss housing, new builds, vacancy & dereliction on The Last Word, TodayFM with Matt Cooper y'day
#DerelictIreland #VacantIreland #HousingCrisis
www.todayfm.com/podcasts/the...
How does that make sense? It doesn't
Listen to @judesherry.bsky.social & @orla-hegarty.bsky.social discuss housing, new builds, vacancy & dereliction on The Last Word, TodayFM with Matt Cooper y'day
#DerelictIreland #VacantIreland #HousingCrisis
www.todayfm.com/podcasts/the...
80,000 Homes Lying Vacant Despite Housing Crisis
More than 80,000 homes are lying vacant in Ireland despite the ongoing housing crisis, according to new analysis from An Post.Jude Sherry, director of Anois,...
www.todayfm.com
February 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
80,000 empty home but the solution is to put people in sheds in people's back gardens. Of course! 🙃
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"Priced out of the housing market? Try living in a hut in your parents backyard" is now the official government stance
We are so fucking cooked man
We are so fucking cooked man
Government to make cabin homes in back gardens exempt from planning
The minister believes there needs to be planning exemptions to allow family members to live together on the same site.
www.thejournal.ie
February 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"Priced out of the housing market? Try living in a hut in your parents backyard" is now the official government stance
We are so fucking cooked man
We are so fucking cooked man
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The evacuation of Connolly Station in Dublin yesterday immediately led to a spate of false claims and unfounded speculation online about what had happened.
Some social media users suggested it had something to do with foreign nationals or asylum seekers.
www.thejournal.ie/debunked-fac...
Some social media users suggested it had something to do with foreign nationals or asylum seekers.
www.thejournal.ie/debunked-fac...
Debunked: Man arrested at Connolly Station was Irish and not a foreign national
A video of gardaí searching people at the train station was shared on a number of social media platforms.
www.thejournal.ie
January 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The evacuation of Connolly Station in Dublin yesterday immediately led to a spate of false claims and unfounded speculation online about what had happened.
Some social media users suggested it had something to do with foreign nationals or asylum seekers.
www.thejournal.ie/debunked-fac...
Some social media users suggested it had something to do with foreign nationals or asylum seekers.
www.thejournal.ie/debunked-fac...
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15,199 people lives being f*cked up
This with over 160k homes lying empty
Oh its called the "homeless population" now
How dystopian is that
Well thats where the f*ck we are
"the total homeless population surpassed 15,000 for the first time since the figures began"
#DerelictIreland #VacantIreland
This with over 160k homes lying empty
Oh its called the "homeless population" now
How dystopian is that
Well thats where the f*ck we are
"the total homeless population surpassed 15,000 for the first time since the figures began"
#DerelictIreland #VacantIreland
15,199
To think that this is what majority of people voted for
It beggars belief
You'd think we'd be a compassionate nation after all we went through from our colonisers
#DerelictIreland
Number of homeless people passes 15,000 for first time since records began
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...
To think that this is what majority of people voted for
It beggars belief
You'd think we'd be a compassionate nation after all we went through from our colonisers
#DerelictIreland
Number of homeless people passes 15,000 for first time since records began
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...
Number of homeless people passes 15,000 for first time since records began
Some 4,658 children are in emergency accommodation as Darragh O’Brien says addressing crisis is ‘an absolute priority’
www.irishtimes.com
January 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
15,199 people lives being f*cked up
This with over 160k homes lying empty
Oh its called the "homeless population" now
How dystopian is that
Well thats where the f*ck we are
"the total homeless population surpassed 15,000 for the first time since the figures began"
#DerelictIreland #VacantIreland
This with over 160k homes lying empty
Oh its called the "homeless population" now
How dystopian is that
Well thats where the f*ck we are
"the total homeless population surpassed 15,000 for the first time since the figures began"
#DerelictIreland #VacantIreland
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Israel is bombing and stealing land from four countries in self defense
December 20, 2024 at 12:31 PM
Israel is bombing and stealing land from four countries in self defense
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I increasingly feel alienated from media outlets as coherent editorial packages.
While there are individual journalists and columnists I trust and whose work I always read, there seems a wider gulf between what the media institutions want and what I want.
While there are individual journalists and columnists I trust and whose work I always read, there seems a wider gulf between what the media institutions want and what I want.
December 11, 2024 at 9:10 AM
I increasingly feel alienated from media outlets as coherent editorial packages.
While there are individual journalists and columnists I trust and whose work I always read, there seems a wider gulf between what the media institutions want and what I want.
While there are individual journalists and columnists I trust and whose work I always read, there seems a wider gulf between what the media institutions want and what I want.
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My 2 cents: The echo of the Scottish Independence referendum result here is hard not to hear. The older generation has declared “we hold what we have” even when it clearly means that the generations coming behind are denied the opportunity for change and better.
November 30, 2024 at 8:21 AM
My 2 cents: The echo of the Scottish Independence referendum result here is hard not to hear. The older generation has declared “we hold what we have” even when it clearly means that the generations coming behind are denied the opportunity for change and better.
VOTE!! Preferably not for #fiannafail or #finegael or anyone that thinks the country is full. Use your Vote. #Election2024 #ireland
November 29, 2024 at 8:32 AM
VOTE!! Preferably not for #fiannafail or #finegael or anyone that thinks the country is full. Use your Vote. #Election2024 #ireland
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Who’s behind a website and social media accounts ratcheting up support for anti-immigration candidates standing in Ireland? Set up in response to events in “the fall of 2022”, they’ve been seeking “digital canvassers” to back a list of candidates. dublininquirer.com/2...
Who’s behind a website and social media accounts ratcheting up support for anti-immigration candidates standing in Ireland? - Dublin Inquirer
Set up in response to events in “the fall of 2022”, they’ve been seeking “digital canvassers” to back candidates listed on the website.
dublininquirer.com
November 27, 2024 at 9:20 AM
Who’s behind a website and social media accounts ratcheting up support for anti-immigration candidates standing in Ireland? Set up in response to events in “the fall of 2022”, they’ve been seeking “digital canvassers” to back a list of candidates. dublininquirer.com/2...
Grand crisp day out. Poolbeg chimneys reflecting well.
November 26, 2024 at 9:42 AM
Grand crisp day out. Poolbeg chimneys reflecting well.
I know it's out nearly 2 years but I only got around to reading it this year. #kala by Colin Walsh is my favourite book of the last 5 years. Just gorgeous.
November 18, 2024 at 5:22 PM
I know it's out nearly 2 years but I only got around to reading it this year. #kala by Colin Walsh is my favourite book of the last 5 years. Just gorgeous.