Frank O'Connor

Ok so im from NYC where we hava a history of coopertive property ownership. Similar to a condo but we all own shares in the company that owns the property instead od a company that you have no stake in.

Is it possible to form cooperatives to buy these properties? From the government? 🧵 #speirgorm

Here's another reason to ban the proliferation of vape shops

Sad to see Glasgow’s 1851 iconic train station destroyed by cheap battery products that are dangerous at every stage of their lifecycle. From those who mine raw materials to those who vape

#BloodBatteries #BanVapes #Speirgorm

Here's another reason to ban the proliferation of vape shops
Sad to see Glasgow’s 1851 iconic train station destroyed by cheap battery products that are bad for anyone who uses them and the people mining the raw materials
#BloodBatteries #BanVapes

Martin is truly inspirational ❤️ Everyone should have a home in #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland 🙏

Martin is truly inspirational ❤️

Everyone should have a home in #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland 🙏

#speirgorm

Does anyone know of ghost estates in Galway, Mayo or Offaly?
We know of 2 more in Cork alone
"The local authorities that did not respond were Galway County Council, Cork City Council, Mayo County Council and Offaly County Council."
#VacantIreland the gateway to #DerelictIreland
#speirgorm

WTF, this is ridiculous Further evidence of a government manufactured housing crisis #DerelictIreland

WTF, this is ridiculous
Further evidence of a government manufactured housing crisis

#DerelictIreland #speirgorm

Happy #InternationalWomensDay2026 to all women. especially Trans, Travellers, those without a home or facing other hardships or abuse Special shout out to my partner @judesherry.bsky.social whose leadership in tackling #DerelictIreland is truly inspirational, from the streets to the Oireachtas

Happy #InternationalWomensDay2026 to all women. especially Trans, Travellers, those without a home or facing other hardships or abuse

Special shout out to my partner @judesherry.bsky.social whose leadership in tackling #DerelictIreland is truly inspirational, from the streets to the Oireachtas

Solidarity is beautiful ❤️

Cork City Ireland now

Again today 1pm ❤️
Grand Parade, Cork City, Ireland

#speirgorm

Greed

Greed

Guess who's back Lwr Glanmire Rd, Cork City, Ireland ffud.art

Guess who's back 😉

Lwr Glanmire Rd, Cork City, Ireland

Me, @judesherry.bsky.social were delighted to be invited by Dr Donagh Horgan to bring our #WalkTalkChalk to streets of historic Youghal Was great to immerse ourselves here, with him & his Erasmus project colleagues & students from Lithuania, Spain, Netherlands, Greece, Ireland #RestPlayWork ffud.art

Me, @judesherry.bsky.social were delighted to be invited by Dr Donagh Horgan to bring our #WalkTalkChalk to streets of historic Youghal
Was great to immerse ourselves here, with him & his Erasmus project colleagues & students from Lithuania, Spain, Netherlands, Greece, Ireland
#RestPlayWork ffud.art

Government abandons derelict homes planned for regeneration Plans to regenerate two derelict houses in Phibsborough have been abandoned due to the cost. The Government had bought the two houses on Connaught Street for €700,000 seven years ago. Despite the approval of planning in 2023, the work would now cost an expected €1.7 million… Joining Andrea to discuss this is Feljin Jose, Green Party Councillor for Phibsborough, Frank O’Connor, Artist, Designer and Derelict Ireland campaigner, Architect and Director at Maremoto Architects Alfonso Bonilla and listeners.

Yesterday I chatted to Andrea Gilligan @newstalkfm.bsky.social about broken housing system & #DerelictIreland
I emphasised need for effective vacancy tax, full enforcement of dereliction laws, & new measures such as Compulsory Sales & Rental Orders

#speirgorm

link.goloudplayer.com/s/pGPXYu2wJEPz

Delighted to join the wonderful Martin Leahy at week 197 of his weekly housing protest at Dáil Éireann, with @judesherry.bsky.social & Helen Louise Murphy Everyone should have a home ❤️ #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland #speirgorm

Delighted to join the wonderful Martin Leahy at week 197 of his weekly housing protest at Dáil Éireann, with @judesherry.bsky.social & Helen Louise Murphy

Everyone should have a home ❤️

#DerelictIreland #VacantIreland #speirgorm

Famine level evictions in Ireland
Some f*cking housing policy by a government that doesn't care about anything only profits
Disgusting

#speirgorm

The planks holding up the edifice is a nice homage to Havana.

Tomorrow's 5th anniversary of @judesherry.bsky.social & my groundbreaking report "This is #DerelictIreland" which debunked common myths based on data for 340 properties in Cork City, & showed how normalisation of dereliction is killing our towns & cities Thank you all for fighting back with us ♥️

Tomorrow's 5th anniversary of @judesherry.bsky.social & my groundbreaking report "This is #DerelictIreland" which debunked common myths based on data for 340 properties in Cork City, & showed how normalisation of dereliction is killing our towns & cities

Thank you all for fighting back with us ♥️

For those interested, I've just added the Wexford County Council Derelict Site Register page to my derelictsites.com website.🏚️

🔗7.0 Wexford County Council — Derelict Site Register
www.derelictsites.com/7-0-Wexford-...

#HousingCrisis #DerelictIreland
#VacantIreland #Wexford #Ireland #Maps

#DerelictIreland

#DerelictIreland

Cork citys phone & vape quarter is coming on really well 😉

Cork citys phone & vape quarter is coming on really well 😉

And you wonder why people are sick to the stomach with landlordism in Ireland ffud.art #DerelictIreland

And you wonder why people are sick to the stomach with landlordism in Ireland

A city's identity is in its stone Hello Cork ffud.art #DerelictIreland

A city's identity is in its stone

Hello Cork

We have the houses
We don't have the political will to tirn them into homes
Too much money to be made in speculation & hoarding

@judesherry.bsky.social & I collated this data for our 2024 report "This is #DerelictIreland. The Solutions."

It's so frustrating to see yet another new record: 17,112 people, including 11,793 adults and 5,319 children accessed emergency accommodation in January, while there are over 160,000 empty houses and 20,000 derelict houses in Ireland.😡
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis

Successive governments have done everything possible to normalise homelessness but it should never be normal to have people on the streets while perfect homes lay empty everywhere
Everyone should & could have a home
We have to fight back
#DerelictIreland

It's never been about providing everyone with a home It's always been about speculation, hoarding & profiteering That's left us with record high rents & evictions, & over 160k vacant & 20k derelict homes While over 17,000 struggle in emergency accommodation

It's never been about providing everyone with a home
It's always been about speculation, hoarding & profiteering
That's left us with record high rents & evictions, & over 160k vacant & 20k derelict homes
While over 17,000 struggle in emergency accommodation
This is all deliberate & deadly
#speirgorm

It has long been noted how FG prefer to claim they were 'founded' by a man long dead when they came into being (who died a member of Sinn Féin) then celebrate the elitist cohort of Irish conservative, Irish Unionist, Irish landowner, and Irish fascist ideologues who are their actual forefathers.

👀

Lets not forget the hidden homeless
Simon Communities put this at 290,000 around 2023
Thats a lot of people struggling due to bad policy decisions
Frightening to think what its now given there were 'only' 12,000 in emergency accommodation in May 2023, now its over 17,000

#speirgorm