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They Haven’t Gone Away You Know.

In Blogby Rashers TierneyLeave a Comment

Just as it seemed things had gone quiet on the We’re Not Leaving front, they’re back in the meeja tag teaming with Peter McVerry and spinning common sense about rent controls in our unfair city. They’re launching a policy document based on the German rent control model and exhibition of photos submitted to them by young folks hunting out accomodation. It’s all taking place down at the Migrants Rights Centre … Read More

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800 Quid A Month? You Must Be Daft.

In Blogby Fedayn13 Comments

As rents climb higher we take a look around some of the ‘competitively’ priced ‘Studio Apartments’ offered by the rentier class to those that can’t afford a home. In previous articles we wrote about bedshitland and the  failure of  almost all 1500 residences examined to pass basic health & safety criteria demanded by the DCC. Today we scanned the pages of the most appropriately named property website, Daft.ie and came up with these beauties … Read More

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Dublin’s Totally Daft Prices.

In Blogby Rashers Tierney15 Comments

The Union of Students In Ireland made a recent plea to homeowners to take in their members as boarders. All due to the accommodation crisis across the city. They even set up a dedicated website to advertise this new cohort of digs. Maybe in indication of take up of the scheme, the site appears to be knocked off line at the moment. USI  is an organisation that looks to have turned a … Read More

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Renter Beware.

In Blogby Fedayn2 Comments

  Kit Ní Chaomhanaigh contacted us to say she became suspicious of photographs of an apartment she hoped to view. Reverse image searching matched them with luxury apartments in Bucharest, however on Daft.ie they were purporting to be for a 2-bed flat in Charlemont St., Dublin 2.   The advertiser is Fabian Hamilton and the same name is listed as the advertiser of a property in Cork on Property.ie although … Read More

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Ruin Fetishism: Documenting Europe’s Derelicts.

In #rabble8, Blog, Culture, Politicsby Stephen Bourke Leave a Comment

With the number of ghost estates across the country estimated at over 900, Stephen Bourke talks to photographer Lisa Furness about her work documenting derelict buildings & squatting in Ireland, London & Spain. The big criticism of Urban exploration and the like is that it’s ‘ruin fetishism’. How do you respond to that? I see a lot of pictures that make empty buildings look dramatic and exciting. I see a … Read More

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Juking The Stats 2

In Blog, Politicsby Fedayn16 Comments

Above: A photograph of some urban dereliction by Paul Reynolds. Minister Jan O’Sullivan’ Housing Assistance Payment Bill will remove people receiving rent assistance from the housing waiting list. SF TD Dessie Ellis outlined the implications of removing tens of thousands (many of whom have been on it for over a decade) from the housing list. ‘This means they will find it almost impossible to get a council house, to buy … Read More

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What We Learned Today.

In Blog, Politicsby Rashers Tierney7 Comments

Newly minted TD Ruth Coppinger got under the skin of Labour’s Jan O’Sullivan big time today. Coppinger had the audacity to pull O’Sullivan up on how changes to rent allowance provision leave people vulnerable to their community welfare officer while topping up private landlords. Here’s a quick transcript: Coppinger: Your colleague Joan Burton announced today that they’d increase rent payments on a case by case basis so people would still … Read More

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Tear Gas At The World Cup.

In Blogby Mourre1 Comment

A woman, homeless after being evicted from her home at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro, makes it clear what many millions of Brazilians think of the new FIFA Corporatocracy they live in.   This is a shame! They’re doing it all over again! Silently, overnight! The politicians ordered it! Eduardo Paes (Rio’s mayor) and Pazao (Rio’s governor) ordered it! Demand that they evict and hit our children! Instead of providing … Read More

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Gerry And The Namechangers

In Blog, Politicsby FedaynLeave a Comment

Gerry Gannon has council heritage officer’s approval to change Priory Street in Clonskeagh, south Dublin to Park Street. Priory Street sounds too close to ‘Priory Hall’ the evicted development that brought shame to Irish construction and government oversight. Gannon, well there’s no shame in that name it seems. The Maple (Anglo) 10 developer, Gerry, owes us over €1bn although his lifestyle doesn’t seem to have been pinned back as much … Read More

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Is Bray Town Council Evicting A Family For Political Reasons?

In Blogby Fedayn5 Comments

  A Wicklow Councillor received a hand-delivered notice from Bray Town Council that they were beginning eviction proceedings against him and his family just days after he called for a Garda investigation into alleged evidence-tampering in the case of the deaths of two firefighters. On March 6th Wicklow Sinn Féin Councillor John Brady posted a blog saying ‘there needs to be a full Garda investigation to establish the facts of how … Read More