@mickbyrne.bsky.social
Housing, political economy, UCD Lecturer. Subscribe to my The Week in Housing newsletter: http://tinyurl.com/38ye4knn
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Director of Equality Studies M.Sc. https://tinyurl.com/2jtw6cvu
Don't have social media on phone so not on here much!
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The Irish Times covering the new @jcfjustice research on the vibrancy and centrality of the rich diversity of faith-based communities in the life of Dublin's north-east inner-city in their op-ed pages this weekend: www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Breda O'Brien: Not far from the tricolours of Dublin’s inner city, 50 faith communities are doing vital work
Irish people should understand their importance – from Kilburn to Canberra, our diaspora for generations sought out Catholic churches as bridges to their new lives
www.irishtimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:59 AM
The Irish Times covering the new @jcfjustice research on the vibrancy and centrality of the rich diversity of faith-based communities in the life of Dublin's north-east inner-city in their op-ed pages this weekend: www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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“2/3 of us are homeowners & 1/2 have no mortgage, making the gap between owners & renters all the greater: renters have median net wealth of about €5,300 & homeowners €303,000. Despite comprising nearly 30% of households renters own just 3% of Ireland’s wealth” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Lorcan Sirr: Irish households are wealthier than ever. You’re not the only one who didn’t notice
There is a wealth illusion, and poorer households are particularly vulnerable to the policies that flow from it
www.irishtimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
“2/3 of us are homeowners & 1/2 have no mortgage, making the gap between owners & renters all the greater: renters have median net wealth of about €5,300 & homeowners €303,000. Despite comprising nearly 30% of households renters own just 3% of Ireland’s wealth” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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There's been a great deal of debate about how safe Dublin city centre is, but when we @dublininquirer.com looked for data to resolve this, we couldn't find much useful – so we commissioned a survey to try to add some facts/data to the debate. Today we've published five articles about the results. 1/
November 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM
There's been a great deal of debate about how safe Dublin city centre is, but when we @dublininquirer.com looked for data to resolve this, we couldn't find much useful – so we commissioned a survey to try to add some facts/data to the debate. Today we've published five articles about the results. 1/
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FAO: John Collison fans: podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
The Collison Corrections and Access to Justice
Podcast Episode · The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack · 05/11/2025 · 1 sec
podcasts.apple.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
FAO: John Collison fans: podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
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Next Thursday (13th) for anyone who is around Dublin - in conversation with the brilliant Sinéad Mercier. Register at link below.
www.tudublin.ie/explore/abou...
www.tudublin.ie/explore/abou...
From the Bog to the Cloud - In Conversation with Authors Patrick Bresnihan and Patrick Brodie
From the Bog to the Cloud - In Conversation with Authors Patrick Bresnihan and Patrick Brodie
www.tudublin.ie
November 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Next Thursday (13th) for anyone who is around Dublin - in conversation with the brilliant Sinéad Mercier. Register at link below.
www.tudublin.ie/explore/abou...
www.tudublin.ie/explore/abou...
Latest post no without paywall. I think 'cost disease socialism' is a really interesting way to think about contemporary Irish housing policy/politics
theweekinhousing.substack.com/p/cost-disea...
theweekinhousing.substack.com/p/cost-disea...
Cost disease socialism & Irish housing II
Bonus series on the political economy of housing
theweekinhousing.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Latest post no without paywall. I think 'cost disease socialism' is a really interesting way to think about contemporary Irish housing policy/politics
theweekinhousing.substack.com/p/cost-disea...
theweekinhousing.substack.com/p/cost-disea...
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The extraordinary life of the 'Wicklow Chief', Michael Dwyer. The Wicklow rebel was the object of widespread devotion on a level that set him apart from most of his United Irishman contemporaries, writes Ruan O'Donnell @unioflimerick.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
The extraordinary life of the 'Wicklow Chief', Michael Dwyer
The Wicklow rebel was the object of widespread devotion on a level that set him apart from most of his United Irishman contemporaries
www.rte.ie
October 31, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The extraordinary life of the 'Wicklow Chief', Michael Dwyer. The Wicklow rebel was the object of widespread devotion on a level that set him apart from most of his United Irishman contemporaries, writes Ruan O'Donnell @unioflimerick.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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Since the far right race riot where immigrant families were threatened, Garda were attacked, and a Garda van was set on fire, have you heard our senior politicians talk more about the rioters, or immigration?
October 31, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Since the far right race riot where immigrant families were threatened, Garda were attacked, and a Garda van was set on fire, have you heard our senior politicians talk more about the rioters, or immigration?
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The secret stories of past Irish lives found in land agent records. Records compiled by land agents can reveal intimate details about tenants' personal lives and that of their extended communities, writes Margaret O'Sullivan @unioflimerick.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
The secret tales of past Irish lives found in land agent records
Records compiled by land agents can reveal intimate details about tenants' personal lives and that of their extended communities
www.rte.ie
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The secret stories of past Irish lives found in land agent records. Records compiled by land agents can reveal intimate details about tenants' personal lives and that of their extended communities, writes Margaret O'Sullivan @unioflimerick.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
As this kind of thing becomes more & more common in coming years, I feel depressed that I'll have to watch the left alienate itself from so many people by how they react to it. Not so much left politicians, but more the online left.
www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...
www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...
Govt should reconsider immigration policies, says Harris
Tánaiste and Fine Gael leader Simon Harris has said Ireland's asylum seeker system is not working and that the Government should reconsider existing policies "in a very serious way".
www.rte.ie
October 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
As this kind of thing becomes more & more common in coming years, I feel depressed that I'll have to watch the left alienate itself from so many people by how they react to it. Not so much left politicians, but more the online left.
www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...
www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...
I'm quoted in this @thejournal.ie, along with several others, in response to the IT's op ed by John Collison. I think it's kicked off a very interesting discussion
www.thejournal.ie/john-colliso...
www.thejournal.ie/john-colliso...
What Stripe's John Collison gets right - and wrong - about Ireland's infrastructure failures
A 2,500-word analysis by the tech billionaire has caused a stir in Irish political circles.
www.thejournal.ie
October 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I'm quoted in this @thejournal.ie, along with several others, in response to the IT's op ed by John Collison. I think it's kicked off a very interesting discussion
www.thejournal.ie/john-colliso...
www.thejournal.ie/john-colliso...
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doi.org/10.1080/0267...
📣This paper offers an empirically-grounded reading of rental housing as a service infrastructure of being and becoming along life-projects of personal/family welfare, social reproduction/mobility, identity searching and geographical explorations
📣This paper offers an empirically-grounded reading of rental housing as a service infrastructure of being and becoming along life-projects of personal/family welfare, social reproduction/mobility, identity searching and geographical explorations
Landlords’ and tenants’ pathways into renting: the case of Romania
Taking the case of the emerging private rental sector in the world’s top homeownership society, the paper proposes two theoretical expansions of broader interest to international housing studies. F...
doi.org
October 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
doi.org/10.1080/0267...
📣This paper offers an empirically-grounded reading of rental housing as a service infrastructure of being and becoming along life-projects of personal/family welfare, social reproduction/mobility, identity searching and geographical explorations
📣This paper offers an empirically-grounded reading of rental housing as a service infrastructure of being and becoming along life-projects of personal/family welfare, social reproduction/mobility, identity searching and geographical explorations
Latest in the series on housing political economy, looking at 'cost disease socialism'. Very timely re that Collison piece in the IT @orla-hegarty.bsky.social @maoiliosarey.bsky.social
theweekinhousing.substack.com/p/cost-disea...
theweekinhousing.substack.com/p/cost-disea...
Cost disease socialism & Irish housing
Bonus post series on the political economy of housing
theweekinhousing.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Latest in the series on housing political economy, looking at 'cost disease socialism'. Very timely re that Collison piece in the IT @orla-hegarty.bsky.social @maoiliosarey.bsky.social
theweekinhousing.substack.com/p/cost-disea...
theweekinhousing.substack.com/p/cost-disea...
Tenant purchase - the policy we love the to hate! Read my review of Aideen Hayden's great new book on Ireland's most infamous policy
theweekinhousing.substack.com/p/state-spon...
theweekinhousing.substack.com/p/state-spon...
State sponsored property flipping
The Week in Housing 24/10/25
theweekinhousing.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Tenant purchase - the policy we love the to hate! Read my review of Aideen Hayden's great new book on Ireland's most infamous policy
theweekinhousing.substack.com/p/state-spon...
theweekinhousing.substack.com/p/state-spon...
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New paper on housing data debates that traces arguments in news media between 2010 & 2025 about the number of #vacant dwellings & housing #completions in Ireland & examining the data politics of facts and counter-facts. In @journalurp.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/eprint/6UCGN...
Data debates in urban development: the data politics of facts and counter-facts
Data relating to urban development are often accepted and used at face value, treated as impartial, objective, incontrovertible facts. However, the validity and veracity of official datasets can be...
www.tandfonline.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:55 AM
New paper on housing data debates that traces arguments in news media between 2010 & 2025 about the number of #vacant dwellings & housing #completions in Ireland & examining the data politics of facts and counter-facts. In @journalurp.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/eprint/6UCGN...
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Applications now open for
UCD Professional Diploma (“Part 3”) starting in January 2026
Places are limited, apply at UCD Applications (Major Code T411): www.ucd.ie/registry/pro...
UCD Professional Diploma (“Part 3”) starting in January 2026
Places are limited, apply at UCD Applications (Major Code T411): www.ucd.ie/registry/pro...
Applying - UCD Registry
www.ucd.ie
October 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Applications now open for
UCD Professional Diploma (“Part 3”) starting in January 2026
Places are limited, apply at UCD Applications (Major Code T411): www.ucd.ie/registry/pro...
UCD Professional Diploma (“Part 3”) starting in January 2026
Places are limited, apply at UCD Applications (Major Code T411): www.ucd.ie/registry/pro...
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"Today is a momentous day" says Housing Minister @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social, rightly proud of the Renters' Rights Bill as it passes its final hurdle without needing a vote.
Waiting for the King's signature in next week or so, when date will be set for ban of Section 21 'no fault' evictions!
Waiting for the King's signature in next week or so, when date will be set for ban of Section 21 'no fault' evictions!
October 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
"Today is a momentous day" says Housing Minister @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social, rightly proud of the Renters' Rights Bill as it passes its final hurdle without needing a vote.
Waiting for the King's signature in next week or so, when date will be set for ban of Section 21 'no fault' evictions!
Waiting for the King's signature in next week or so, when date will be set for ban of Section 21 'no fault' evictions!
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It's now a real thing. Hardback and expensive but hopefully in time floppy and cheap. Join us at the launch on 21st Nov in London - see Eventbrite for free tickets www.eventbrite.com/e/listening-... @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social @claypipemusic.bsky.social @ghostboxrecords.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 8:45 AM
It's now a real thing. Hardback and expensive but hopefully in time floppy and cheap. Join us at the launch on 21st Nov in London - see Eventbrite for free tickets www.eventbrite.com/e/listening-... @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social @claypipemusic.bsky.social @ghostboxrecords.bsky.social
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I made a map of development in the Liberties, including hotels and student accommodation, and new apartment complexes. What did I miss?
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October 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I made a map of development in the Liberties, including hotels and student accommodation, and new apartment complexes. What did I miss?
api.mapbox.com/styles/v1/du...
api.mapbox.com/styles/v1/du...
2nd in the series on contemporary housing political economy no longer behind a paywall, looking at some really interesting recent UK analyses re financialisation and the politics that sustains dysfunctional housing systems.
theweekinhousing.substack.com/p/lessons-fr...
theweekinhousing.substack.com/p/lessons-fr...
Lessons from UK's dysfunctional housing system
Bonus series on the political economy of housing
theweekinhousing.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:15 AM
2nd in the series on contemporary housing political economy no longer behind a paywall, looking at some really interesting recent UK analyses re financialisation and the politics that sustains dysfunctional housing systems.
theweekinhousing.substack.com/p/lessons-fr...
theweekinhousing.substack.com/p/lessons-fr...
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Our second episode from our series ‘Where is Urban Politics?’ is out now:
urbanpolitical.online/98-repolitic...
Josh Ryan-Collins (@jryancollins.bsky.social)
and Dirk Bezemer are talking about Europe’s housing crisis, financialisation, and the urgent need to rethink the politics of home.
urbanpolitical.online/98-repolitic...
Josh Ryan-Collins (@jryancollins.bsky.social)
and Dirk Bezemer are talking about Europe’s housing crisis, financialisation, and the urgent need to rethink the politics of home.
October 20, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Our second episode from our series ‘Where is Urban Politics?’ is out now:
urbanpolitical.online/98-repolitic...
Josh Ryan-Collins (@jryancollins.bsky.social)
and Dirk Bezemer are talking about Europe’s housing crisis, financialisation, and the urgent need to rethink the politics of home.
urbanpolitical.online/98-repolitic...
Josh Ryan-Collins (@jryancollins.bsky.social)
and Dirk Bezemer are talking about Europe’s housing crisis, financialisation, and the urgent need to rethink the politics of home.
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Great writing that strives to make sense our troubled times.
Something a bit different today. Talking about authoritarian populism and the pitfalls of how we respond to it @bryanfanning.bsky.social @hlinehan.bsky.social
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theweekinhousing.substack.com/p/populism-m...
Populism makes sense: a provocation
The Week in Housing 17/10/25
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October 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Great writing that strives to make sense our troubled times.
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Controversial rent reforms are hurtling down the track. Cabinet agreed outline legislation this week to replace existing rules next year. Housing Plan leaks show Govt wants to use compulsory purchase to tackle derelict houses. Analysis
www.rte.ie/news/busines... @mickbyrne.bsky.social @news.rte.ie
www.rte.ie/news/busines... @mickbyrne.bsky.social @news.rte.ie
Controversial rent reforms are hurtling down the track
On Tuesday, the Cabinet approved an outline of new rental rules which are due to replace the current arrangements for tenants and landlords at the end of the year.
www.rte.ie
October 18, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Controversial rent reforms are hurtling down the track. Cabinet agreed outline legislation this week to replace existing rules next year. Housing Plan leaks show Govt wants to use compulsory purchase to tackle derelict houses. Analysis
www.rte.ie/news/busines... @mickbyrne.bsky.social @news.rte.ie
www.rte.ie/news/busines... @mickbyrne.bsky.social @news.rte.ie
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‘One of the oldest urban centres on the planet’: Gaza’s rich history in ruins.
My @guardian piece on the erasure of Gaza's past. As we mourn incalculable human losses, learning about its past can help us better understand the present
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
My @guardian piece on the erasure of Gaza's past. As we mourn incalculable human losses, learning about its past can help us better understand the present
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘One of the oldest urban centres on the planet’: Gaza’s rich history in ruins
The territory’s ancient heritage has too often been ignored. As we mourn incalculable human losses, learning about its past can help us better understand the present
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
‘One of the oldest urban centres on the planet’: Gaza’s rich history in ruins.
My @guardian piece on the erasure of Gaza's past. As we mourn incalculable human losses, learning about its past can help us better understand the present
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
My @guardian piece on the erasure of Gaza's past. As we mourn incalculable human losses, learning about its past can help us better understand the present
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...