Rob Cross
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Only in Ireland🙈
19 South Terrace in Cork City, owned by UCC has been on the Derelict Sites Register since 2001. Its market value is €180,000. After nearly 25 years on the Derelict Site Register, the accumulated levy and interest now totals approximately €861,840.
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis
19 South Terrace in Cork City, owned by UCC has been on the Derelict Sites Register since 2001. Its market value is €180,000. After nearly 25 years on the Derelict Site Register, the accumulated levy and interest now totals approximately €861,840.
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Only in Ireland🙈
19 South Terrace in Cork City, owned by UCC has been on the Derelict Sites Register since 2001. Its market value is €180,000. After nearly 25 years on the Derelict Site Register, the accumulated levy and interest now totals approximately €861,840.
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis
19 South Terrace in Cork City, owned by UCC has been on the Derelict Sites Register since 2001. Its market value is €180,000. After nearly 25 years on the Derelict Site Register, the accumulated levy and interest now totals approximately €861,840.
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis
Reposted by Rob Cross
Dereliction is a social crime
Never accept it
ffud art for #DerelictIreland with @judesherry.bsky.social
Never accept it
ffud art for #DerelictIreland with @judesherry.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Dereliction is a social crime
Never accept it
ffud art for #DerelictIreland with @judesherry.bsky.social
Never accept it
ffud art for #DerelictIreland with @judesherry.bsky.social
Rice's Pub on St. Stephen's Green & Dandelion Market on South King Street were demolished in 1986 to make way for the St. Stephen's Green Shopping Centre. The Slazenger family had assembled the site over 15 years, beginning in 1966.
#TheColourOfIreland #Dublin
#TheColourOfIreland #Dublin
November 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Rice's Pub on St. Stephen's Green & Dandelion Market on South King Street were demolished in 1986 to make way for the St. Stephen's Green Shopping Centre. The Slazenger family had assembled the site over 15 years, beginning in 1966.
#TheColourOfIreland #Dublin
#TheColourOfIreland #Dublin
🚨 One in every 22 homes in Ireland is either vacant or derelict.
GeoDirectory Residential Buildings Report Q2 2025:
🏚️80,328* VACANT homes
🏚️19,821* DERELICT dwellings
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis
In my visualisation, red blocks represent some of the Derelict and Vacant Sites in Dublin City.
GeoDirectory Residential Buildings Report Q2 2025:
🏚️80,328* VACANT homes
🏚️19,821* DERELICT dwellings
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis
In my visualisation, red blocks represent some of the Derelict and Vacant Sites in Dublin City.
November 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
🚨 One in every 22 homes in Ireland is either vacant or derelict.
GeoDirectory Residential Buildings Report Q2 2025:
🏚️80,328* VACANT homes
🏚️19,821* DERELICT dwellings
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis
In my visualisation, red blocks represent some of the Derelict and Vacant Sites in Dublin City.
GeoDirectory Residential Buildings Report Q2 2025:
🏚️80,328* VACANT homes
🏚️19,821* DERELICT dwellings
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis
In my visualisation, red blocks represent some of the Derelict and Vacant Sites in Dublin City.
Reposted by Rob Cross
🧐 Glenveagh CEO to politicians: “zoned, serviced land "almost non-existent"
🤨 Glenveagh Annual Report: €556m landbank of 20,000 sites, 57% with Planning Permission.. sufficient for 12yrs at Glenveagh’s 2024 build rate (1,650 homes) www.annualreports.com/HostedData/A...
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
🤨 Glenveagh Annual Report: €556m landbank of 20,000 sites, 57% with Planning Permission.. sufficient for 12yrs at Glenveagh’s 2024 build rate (1,650 homes) www.annualreports.com/HostedData/A...
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
'Contradiction' hampering housing delivery, cttee hears
Irish developers and society as a whole are operating under a "major but rarely discussed contradiction" that is hampering the delivery of homes, an Oireachtas committee has been told.
www.rte.ie
November 5, 2025 at 8:48 AM
🧐 Glenveagh CEO to politicians: “zoned, serviced land "almost non-existent"
🤨 Glenveagh Annual Report: €556m landbank of 20,000 sites, 57% with Planning Permission.. sufficient for 12yrs at Glenveagh’s 2024 build rate (1,650 homes) www.annualreports.com/HostedData/A...
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
🤨 Glenveagh Annual Report: €556m landbank of 20,000 sites, 57% with Planning Permission.. sufficient for 12yrs at Glenveagh’s 2024 build rate (1,650 homes) www.annualreports.com/HostedData/A...
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
Once our heritage is gone, it's gone forever.
Curragower House in Limerick was demolished in 2021 and currently lies vacant. My graphic shows the house in this 1860 painting by C. Mills.
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis #Limerick
Curragower House in Limerick was demolished in 2021 and currently lies vacant. My graphic shows the house in this 1860 painting by C. Mills.
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis #Limerick
November 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Once our heritage is gone, it's gone forever.
Curragower House in Limerick was demolished in 2021 and currently lies vacant. My graphic shows the house in this 1860 painting by C. Mills.
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis #Limerick
Curragower House in Limerick was demolished in 2021 and currently lies vacant. My graphic shows the house in this 1860 painting by C. Mills.
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis #Limerick
Only in Ireland🙈
The former Curragower House, which had been vacant for 19 years before being demolished in 2021. The site has remained vacant since.
This is happening in the middle of a housing emergency, with homelessness reaching a record 16,353 people
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis
The former Curragower House, which had been vacant for 19 years before being demolished in 2021. The site has remained vacant since.
This is happening in the middle of a housing emergency, with homelessness reaching a record 16,353 people
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis
November 5, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Only in Ireland🙈
The former Curragower House, which had been vacant for 19 years before being demolished in 2021. The site has remained vacant since.
This is happening in the middle of a housing emergency, with homelessness reaching a record 16,353 people
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis
The former Curragower House, which had been vacant for 19 years before being demolished in 2021. The site has remained vacant since.
This is happening in the middle of a housing emergency, with homelessness reaching a record 16,353 people
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis
Dirty Old Town🙈🦆
This is Blessington Street Basin, a hidden gem in Dublin's Northside that is currently contaminated with harmful algal blooms and litter. The site is a former drinking water reservoir in northern central Dublin that operated from 1810 until the 1970s, serving the north city.
#Dublin
This is Blessington Street Basin, a hidden gem in Dublin's Northside that is currently contaminated with harmful algal blooms and litter. The site is a former drinking water reservoir in northern central Dublin that operated from 1810 until the 1970s, serving the north city.
#Dublin
November 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Dirty Old Town🙈🦆
This is Blessington Street Basin, a hidden gem in Dublin's Northside that is currently contaminated with harmful algal blooms and litter. The site is a former drinking water reservoir in northern central Dublin that operated from 1810 until the 1970s, serving the north city.
#Dublin
This is Blessington Street Basin, a hidden gem in Dublin's Northside that is currently contaminated with harmful algal blooms and litter. The site is a former drinking water reservoir in northern central Dublin that operated from 1810 until the 1970s, serving the north city.
#Dublin
This 1956 aerial shows the construction of Con Colbert Road at Islandbridge. The image captures the road alongside the Irish National War Memorial Park and the now filled-in mill pond (which I've highlighted) that once powered the mill wheel of the Hibernian Mills in Kilmainham.
#TheColourOfIreland
#TheColourOfIreland
October 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
This 1956 aerial shows the construction of Con Colbert Road at Islandbridge. The image captures the road alongside the Irish National War Memorial Park and the now filled-in mill pond (which I've highlighted) that once powered the mill wheel of the Hibernian Mills in Kilmainham.
#TheColourOfIreland
#TheColourOfIreland
Only in Ireland 🙈
103 completed apartments at Old Naas Road, Bluebell, Dublin, have stood empty for two and a half years. This is happening in the middle of a housing emergency, with homelessness reaching a record 16,353 people now accessing emergency homeless accommodation.
#HousingCrisis #Dublin
103 completed apartments at Old Naas Road, Bluebell, Dublin, have stood empty for two and a half years. This is happening in the middle of a housing emergency, with homelessness reaching a record 16,353 people now accessing emergency homeless accommodation.
#HousingCrisis #Dublin
October 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Only in Ireland 🙈
103 completed apartments at Old Naas Road, Bluebell, Dublin, have stood empty for two and a half years. This is happening in the middle of a housing emergency, with homelessness reaching a record 16,353 people now accessing emergency homeless accommodation.
#HousingCrisis #Dublin
103 completed apartments at Old Naas Road, Bluebell, Dublin, have stood empty for two and a half years. This is happening in the middle of a housing emergency, with homelessness reaching a record 16,353 people now accessing emergency homeless accommodation.
#HousingCrisis #Dublin
Allowing properties—especially those of architectural heritage—to remain derelict or vacant for decades should be considered a crime against the state.
#DerelictIreland #VacantIreland #Cork #Ireland
Google Street View:
maps.app.goo.gl/nHCmPdYfTZ1m...
#DerelictIreland #VacantIreland #Cork #Ireland
Google Street View:
maps.app.goo.gl/nHCmPdYfTZ1m...
October 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Allowing properties—especially those of architectural heritage—to remain derelict or vacant for decades should be considered a crime against the state.
#DerelictIreland #VacantIreland #Cork #Ireland
Google Street View:
maps.app.goo.gl/nHCmPdYfTZ1m...
#DerelictIreland #VacantIreland #Cork #Ireland
Google Street View:
maps.app.goo.gl/nHCmPdYfTZ1m...
Allowing properties—especially those of architectural heritage—to remain derelict or vacant for decades should be considered a crime against the state.
#DerelictIreland #VacantIreland #Cork #Ireland
📷Lavitt's Quay, Cork City
#DerelictIreland #VacantIreland #Cork #Ireland
📷Lavitt's Quay, Cork City
October 29, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Allowing properties—especially those of architectural heritage—to remain derelict or vacant for decades should be considered a crime against the state.
#DerelictIreland #VacantIreland #Cork #Ireland
📷Lavitt's Quay, Cork City
#DerelictIreland #VacantIreland #Cork #Ireland
📷Lavitt's Quay, Cork City
Reckless urban planning—urban sprawl, poor public transport, land hoarding, and out-of-town shopping complexes—has damaged Waterford City. The River Suir is one of the city's main assets, yet vacant sites (red) and surface car parking (blue) line its banks.
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis #Waterford
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis #Waterford
October 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Reckless urban planning—urban sprawl, poor public transport, land hoarding, and out-of-town shopping complexes—has damaged Waterford City. The River Suir is one of the city's main assets, yet vacant sites (red) and surface car parking (blue) line its banks.
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis #Waterford
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis #Waterford
🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🎃👻🧙♀️ Halloween in Limerick tonight– SAMHAIN 2025 🧙♀️👻🎃🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬
🔥 Lumen Street Theatre – Fire & Shadows Parade.👏
#Limerick #Halloween2025
🔥 Lumen Street Theatre – Fire & Shadows Parade.👏
#Limerick #Halloween2025
October 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🎃👻🧙♀️ Halloween in Limerick tonight– SAMHAIN 2025 🧙♀️👻🎃🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬
🔥 Lumen Street Theatre – Fire & Shadows Parade.👏
#Limerick #Halloween2025
🔥 Lumen Street Theatre – Fire & Shadows Parade.👏
#Limerick #Halloween2025
Charles 'Chuck' Feeney
Entrepreneur - Humanitarian - Philanthropist
1931-2023
‘I had one idea that never changed in my mind, you should use your wealth to help people’
His philanthropy donated over €2 billion to Irish causes.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam
Entrepreneur - Humanitarian - Philanthropist
1931-2023
‘I had one idea that never changed in my mind, you should use your wealth to help people’
His philanthropy donated over €2 billion to Irish causes.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam
October 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Charles 'Chuck' Feeney
Entrepreneur - Humanitarian - Philanthropist
1931-2023
‘I had one idea that never changed in my mind, you should use your wealth to help people’
His philanthropy donated over €2 billion to Irish causes.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam
Entrepreneur - Humanitarian - Philanthropist
1931-2023
‘I had one idea that never changed in my mind, you should use your wealth to help people’
His philanthropy donated over €2 billion to Irish causes.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam
Cork City's Derelict Utopia in 2025🏚️
📷Closed Utopia Adult Shop, Oliver Plunkett Street
Leaving properties derelict for decades should be a crime against the state. Ireland faces a housing emergency, with homelessness reaching a record 16,353 people.
#DerelictIreland #Cork #Ireland
#HousingCrisis
📷Closed Utopia Adult Shop, Oliver Plunkett Street
Leaving properties derelict for decades should be a crime against the state. Ireland faces a housing emergency, with homelessness reaching a record 16,353 people.
#DerelictIreland #Cork #Ireland
#HousingCrisis
October 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Cork City's Derelict Utopia in 2025🏚️
📷Closed Utopia Adult Shop, Oliver Plunkett Street
Leaving properties derelict for decades should be a crime against the state. Ireland faces a housing emergency, with homelessness reaching a record 16,353 people.
#DerelictIreland #Cork #Ireland
#HousingCrisis
📷Closed Utopia Adult Shop, Oliver Plunkett Street
Leaving properties derelict for decades should be a crime against the state. Ireland faces a housing emergency, with homelessness reaching a record 16,353 people.
#DerelictIreland #Cork #Ireland
#HousingCrisis
Bringing Ireland's History to Life 🇮🇪⛪️🛶
My colourised and restored c.1890 Robert French photo of Wexford Harbour, featuring the steeples of the Church of the Assumption, designed by architects Pugin & Ashlin in 1864.
#TheColourOfIreland #Wexford
My colourised and restored c.1890 Robert French photo of Wexford Harbour, featuring the steeples of the Church of the Assumption, designed by architects Pugin & Ashlin in 1864.
#TheColourOfIreland #Wexford
October 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Bringing Ireland's History to Life 🇮🇪⛪️🛶
My colourised and restored c.1890 Robert French photo of Wexford Harbour, featuring the steeples of the Church of the Assumption, designed by architects Pugin & Ashlin in 1864.
#TheColourOfIreland #Wexford
My colourised and restored c.1890 Robert French photo of Wexford Harbour, featuring the steeples of the Church of the Assumption, designed by architects Pugin & Ashlin in 1864.
#TheColourOfIreland #Wexford
Reposted by Rob Cross
“Councils investigate 1,600 Airbnb-style lets suspected of planning breaches
Airbnb lists more than 1,000 homes in Dublin city”
—for context, in all of 2024
Dublin City new dwellings built:
north inner city 440
south east inner city 95
south west inner city 279
www.independent.ie/irish-news/r...
Airbnb lists more than 1,000 homes in Dublin city”
—for context, in all of 2024
Dublin City new dwellings built:
north inner city 440
south east inner city 95
south west inner city 279
www.independent.ie/irish-news/r...
Revealed: Councils investigate 1,600 Airbnb-style lets suspected of planning breaches
Around 1,600 properties have been investigated by councils as suspected illegal short-term lets in the last three years.
www.independent.ie
October 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
“Councils investigate 1,600 Airbnb-style lets suspected of planning breaches
Airbnb lists more than 1,000 homes in Dublin city”
—for context, in all of 2024
Dublin City new dwellings built:
north inner city 440
south east inner city 95
south west inner city 279
www.independent.ie/irish-news/r...
Airbnb lists more than 1,000 homes in Dublin city”
—for context, in all of 2024
Dublin City new dwellings built:
north inner city 440
south east inner city 95
south west inner city 279
www.independent.ie/irish-news/r...
Bringing Ireland's History to Life 🇮🇪🐂🐕
My colourised c1900 A.H. Poole photo of 'the Bullpost' during the Ballybricken Cattle Fair in Waterford where once the cruel practice of Bull-Baiting took place. Thankfully Bull-Baiting was finally outlawed in 1835.🙏
#TheColourOfIreland #rtept #Primetime
My colourised c1900 A.H. Poole photo of 'the Bullpost' during the Ballybricken Cattle Fair in Waterford where once the cruel practice of Bull-Baiting took place. Thankfully Bull-Baiting was finally outlawed in 1835.🙏
#TheColourOfIreland #rtept #Primetime
October 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Bringing Ireland's History to Life 🇮🇪🐂🐕
My colourised c1900 A.H. Poole photo of 'the Bullpost' during the Ballybricken Cattle Fair in Waterford where once the cruel practice of Bull-Baiting took place. Thankfully Bull-Baiting was finally outlawed in 1835.🙏
#TheColourOfIreland #rtept #Primetime
My colourised c1900 A.H. Poole photo of 'the Bullpost' during the Ballybricken Cattle Fair in Waterford where once the cruel practice of Bull-Baiting took place. Thankfully Bull-Baiting was finally outlawed in 1835.🙏
#TheColourOfIreland #rtept #Primetime
Reposted by Rob Cross
Good article in IT today highlighting blind spot in government housing policy when it comes to existing g buildings and urban vacancy @irishtimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Good article in IT today highlighting blind spot in government housing policy when it comes to existing g buildings and urban vacancy @irishtimes.com
It would be wonderful to restore the beautiful water fountain on the former Rates Office/Newcomen Bank on Cork Hill in Dublin City. Imagine the millions of plastic bottles we could eliminate if this fountain became a water bottle refill station.
#Dublin
#Dublin
October 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
It would be wonderful to restore the beautiful water fountain on the former Rates Office/Newcomen Bank on Cork Hill in Dublin City. Imagine the millions of plastic bottles we could eliminate if this fountain became a water bottle refill station.
#Dublin
#Dublin
Dublin is plagued by derelict and vacant sites; here are some examples in and around Phibsborough, Dublin 7, as shown in my graphic.
Another record 16,353 people, including more than 5,100 children, are now accessing emergency homeless accommodation in Ireland.
#HousingCrisis #DerelictIreland
Another record 16,353 people, including more than 5,100 children, are now accessing emergency homeless accommodation in Ireland.
#HousingCrisis #DerelictIreland
October 9, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Dublin is plagued by derelict and vacant sites; here are some examples in and around Phibsborough, Dublin 7, as shown in my graphic.
Another record 16,353 people, including more than 5,100 children, are now accessing emergency homeless accommodation in Ireland.
#HousingCrisis #DerelictIreland
Another record 16,353 people, including more than 5,100 children, are now accessing emergency homeless accommodation in Ireland.
#HousingCrisis #DerelictIreland
Key boxes have become modern-day parasites. Planning compliance rates in Ireland are abysmally low, and regulations are not consistently enforced. No wonder we have record homeless figures every time they're published.
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis #Airbnb
Photo: Foster Street in Galway City
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis #Airbnb
Photo: Foster Street in Galway City
October 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Key boxes have become modern-day parasites. Planning compliance rates in Ireland are abysmally low, and regulations are not consistently enforced. No wonder we have record homeless figures every time they're published.
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis #Airbnb
Photo: Foster Street in Galway City
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis #Airbnb
Photo: Foster Street in Galway City
The new record of 5,014 homeless children living in State-provided accommodation is a national disgrace. Ireland's housing system has deteriorated primarily because of ineffective government policies.
#HousingCrisis #Ireland
#HousingCrisis #Ireland
August 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM
The new record of 5,014 homeless children living in State-provided accommodation is a national disgrace. Ireland's housing system has deteriorated primarily because of ineffective government policies.
#HousingCrisis #Ireland
#HousingCrisis #Ireland
31 Too Young To Die.
Seán Collins beside the coffin of his brother, Michael Collins in #Dublin's City Hall where he lay in state for three days following his death at Béal na mBláth in Cork.
The photo was taken on 27th August 1922.
📚#TheColourOfIreland 🇮🇪 #Treaty21 #Éire #Irish
Seán Collins beside the coffin of his brother, Michael Collins in #Dublin's City Hall where he lay in state for three days following his death at Béal na mBláth in Cork.
The photo was taken on 27th August 1922.
📚#TheColourOfIreland 🇮🇪 #Treaty21 #Éire #Irish
August 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM