Conor Callaghan
@ConorJCallaghan
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Interesting critical take on new housing strategy in today’s @Independent_ie by @JPMMcCartney
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My mom doesn’t drink, doesn’t smoke, walks or runs every day. My mom couldn’t eat healthy to avoid having a genetic birth defect. My mom couldn’t eat healthy to avoid Parkinson’s. If you allow insurance companies to discriminate, they will.
The best health insurance is eating healthy, working out, and making smart life choices. If you weigh 350 pounds, eat McDonald’s every day, live a sedentary lifestyle, and actively poison your body, you should absolutely pay more for health insurance for being higher risk.
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For 2nd time in a month I’ve just seen someone aggrieved at suggestion that, sitting there taking up a whole table in a hospitality establishment with laptop out, they should buy something! How are businesses going to survive if people are now thinking they’re free work spaces?
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I’m so sad to hear this. My first newsroom is shutting down. Feels like the end of an era. Local papers do so much quietly — court, council, community stories that no one else picks up. We really need them. When local papers go, accountability goes with them.
BREAKING: The Down Recorder newspaper in Downpatrick has ceased publication after 189 years in circulation.
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Keepie-uppy legend Connolly has been President for TWO DAYS and we just bet Portugal 2-0! Ireland has entered its soccer-powerhouse era 🇮🇪⚽️
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By ‘social housing’ they mean Potemkin projects whereby the state purchases units from a private developer with the cost to acquire a ready-built unit being significantly higher than building it directly on state land 🏡
The new housing plan 'Delivering Homes, Building Communities' will aim to built 300,000 new by 2030. 72,000 of these will be social housing units. This is the fourth housing plan to be launched in ten years, I think it’s fair to say none of the previous plans have delivered.
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Man with commercial property interests says what?
rte.ie
Businessman Denis O'Brien has claimed there has been a "marked decline" in the efficiency of all parts of the Government due to remote working.
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This is not “affordable”.
Requiring a €50k deposit and gross income of €112,000. With a couple of equal earners, they both have to earn more than 73% of all Irish workers
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"The Irish language revival of today was not designed in government departments; it was built from below. It began in Pop Up Gaeltachtí, podcasts, community cafés and hip-hop. The state tolerated the language - people revived it."
“When Alison O’Connor warned that the rise of the Irish language might be “creating a them-and-us situation,” she revealed less about the language than about the anxieties of Ireland’s establishment commentariat.” Read full piece here 👉 https://t.co/etkpRxANKo
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Allowing the State to call housing "affordable" based on some discount from the "market rate" is a bigger issue in housing than water charges.
Applications for 99 affordable purchase homes in Dublin will open later this month. One-bed apartments will cost between €248k and €332k; two-bed apartments will cost between €320k and €414k and three-bed houses will cost between €378k and €473k. https://t.co/dQZiI2KIxh
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The average employee in Dublin earns €49,500. A newly qualified teacher earns under €42,500. A nurse just over €37,000 and a garda less than €39,000, if not doing shift work. None of them meet the (€56,000) minimum salary requirement for a one-bedroom ‘affordable�� apartment.
Applications for 99 affordable purchase homes in Dublin will open later this month. One-bed apartments will cost between €248k and €332k; two-bed apartments will cost between €320k and €414k and three-bed houses will cost between €378k and €473k. https://t.co/dQZiI2KIxh
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New research from the University of Toronto finds that over half the decline in US fertility rates in the early 2000s is explained by the rising cost of housing (Clearly an issue in Ireland)
In 2010, Irish house prices were 17% above the EU average In 2023, they are 86% above average and second only to Denmark, but only slightly Average wages are 25% higher in Denmark
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Good point 👇. 'We are not allowed talk about immigration' is nothing but a far-right dog-whistle from people who never shut up about immigration
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🚨 One in every 22 homes in Ireland is either vacant or derelict. This shocking statistic comes amid a housing emergency, with homelessness reaching a record 16,353 people—including 2,391 families, 252 people over 65, and more than 5,145 children—now accessing emergency homeless
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Housing financialisation eating language policy for breakfast
An 88 percent increase in the number of whole homes to rent in Gaeltacht areas on Airbnb – in just six years 'The history of the Gaeltachts as places of radical and forward thinking gets forgotten now when they've become a holiday destination,' say @CnaG
https://t.co/cy9jbUcaQX
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One housing estate has been built in my hometown in the last decade. 0 out of the 68 new homes constructed were put on the market for local first-time buyers. 228 homes nearby were blocked due to their impact on a colony of bats. Politics is completely failing young people.
I’m determined to get more done. My focus has been unrelenting on the issues that matter - for the work to be done, to get more infrastructure and to get more housing built.
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Local authority @DubCityCouncil is introducing a regeneration scheme for vacant and #DerelictIreland buildings in the city centre, giving key workers, including nurses, gardaí and teachers, the opportunity to rent low-cost homes. https://t.co/GYoJVu6UnS
breakingnews.ie
Middle Abbey Street will be part of a pilot that will see property owners given support to regenerate their buildings.
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No explanation. No reasons. No scrutiny. Standards in Public Office Commission (SIPO) says public isn’t entitled to know why waivers are granted on cooling-off periods for former government staff who move into private sector. The Information Commissioner agrees.
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