“Those who are most vulnerable in our society.”
“[Irish people] have the right to be frustrated.”
The Irish Government has neither the duty, nor the right, to damage the interests of its own people to advance the cause of another.
In the case of the homeless, let’s also be honest: Politicians simply do not have sustained pressure from the public to solve the problem.
We will put this in the category of “darkly amusing”: https://twitter.com/CloHiggins/status/1391083611860967426 You might wonder why a “wheelchair friendly” park bench is something that anybody would bother to invent. After all, people in wheelchairs – not through choice, of course – are not lacking for somewhere to sit down. Life has forced them to take a […]
A Trinity College study published today has found that found that people who are homeless can experince accelerated physical ageing – with homeless people aged between 20 and 40 having the same physical mobility as 70 to 80 year olds. The research demonstrates an extremely high burden of physical and mobility problems experienced by people […]
There was, across much of the media, and politics, widespread condemnation in recent days of the news that a global property firm, Round Hill Capital, was set to purchase most of the homes in a new 170-home development in Kildare. The frustration amongst a lot of people on hearing this news was perfectly understandable, if […]
The latest Monthly Homelessness Report from the Department of Housing has shown that almost 1000 (935) families were trapped in Emergency Homeless Accommodation in February. This represents a drop of just 31 families from the situation reported in January when a total of 966 families was recorded. A further breakdown of the numbers for February […]
In the midst of a housing crisis that dominated the General Election earlier this year, and in a country with – at last count – ten thousand homeless people, Dublin City Council was last night presented with a plan to build 850 new homes in Coolock. 250 of these would have been social housing. The […]
Absolute nonsense. But, probably popular nonsense. And it’s a Sinn Fein bill, so sheer, mindless, partisanship will mean that at least thirty per cent of the population will decide that it’s a great idea, just because it came from their team, even though it’s one of the most terrible ideas imaginable. Why? More on that […]
Even with the current Covid panic, the issue of homelessness continues to exercise many. The current estimate stands at around 10,000 people homeless in Ireland, of whom almost half are in Dublin. The exact criteria for such a determination is somewhat vague, but even so, many people are finding it difficult to get a home […]