Frank O'Connor

Ireland is in the midst of a housing crisis, with 16,766 people, including 5,274 children, relying on emergency accommodation and likely to hit 17,000 by Christmas. Yet there are 72,000 vacant dwellings nationally connected to services and ready to go.

#HousingCrisis #DerelictIreland #Ireland

This is f*cking insane & will make it next to impossible for many students to afford Uni Remember many students are already paying up to €15k to private landlords for 9 months I've also met a student paying €18k! Message is clear F*ck the students Greed rules #DerelictIreland

This is f*cking insane & will make it next to impossible for many students to afford university
Remember many students are already paying up to €15k to private landlords for 9 months
I've also met a student paying €18k!
Message is clear
F*ck the students
Greed rules
#DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm

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

Well if @simonharrisireland.bsky.social is to believed it's because of 'immigrants'.
That's right. 72,000 homes - all ready to be lived in are vacant because people who lived in another country moved to Ireland.
Apparently.

#SpéirGhorm
#IrishPolitics

Recent CSO data found 72,000 vacant homes empty, connected to services & ready to go So why are they still empty? Record homelessness, children being traumatised 'Cos of ideology Introducing compulsory rental & sales & custodian squatting would be transformative #derelictireland

Recent CSO data found 72,000 vacant homes empty, connected to services & ready to go
So why are they still empty?
Record homelessness, children being traumatised
'Cos of ideology
Introducing compulsory rental & sales & custodian squatting would be transformative

#derelictireland #speirgorm

A new Dutch Vacant Homes Tax 👇

#DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm

Gruwel voor huizenzoekers: meer dan 200.000 leegstaande woningen, waarvan 21.770 in Amsterdam Woningnood of niet, de leegstand loopt verder op. Deze zomer stonden maar liefst 200.670 woningen leeg, waarvan 21.770 in Amsterdam. Deze week ging de Eerste Kamer akkoord met de invoering van een lee...

"Horror for house seekers: more than 200,000 vacant houses, of which 21,770 in Amsterdam"
www.parool.nl/nederland/gr...

Netherlands announce a new Vacant Home Tax

64k empty empty homes for 1 yr
0.7% of their housing stock

Compared to Ireland who has 72k-80k empty
3.3%-3.7% of Irish homes

#VacantIreland the gateway to #DerelictIreland

In the midst of a housing crisis—with 16,766 people, including 5,274 children, relying on emergency accommodation and likely to hit 17,000 by Christmas- Baggot Street Hospital closed in 1987 and has been vacant for roughly 38 years, yes, 38 years.🙈

#HousingCrisis #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland

Very good news
Its been a long time coming so I won't hold my breath, definitely not with the record of the Land Development Agency
No more speculation or inaction
Time for much needed homes
I would love to see them go to first-time buyers at proper affordable price

#DerelictIreland #speirgorm

Brilliant news, thanks for heads up

🤞🏻 they are back in use soon

#DerelictIreland #speirgorm

@judesherry.bsky.social

Former Odlums on Kennedy Quay, Cork City, is so beautiful its worth sharing over & over
Long-term decaying & derelict but there are plans (note of caution: there are always plans)
I'd love to see it owned by the state & transformed into community, creative space #DerelictIreland #speirgorm

Very depressing but thank you for discussing it 👍

I have long wondered why Cork City Council hates Cork City.
It's the only passion they seem to have.

#SpéirGhorm.

Michael Moynihan: Cork still waiting for task force while our green spaces disappear Any reticence among our public representatives about a task force made up by the local authority is entirely justified, writes Michael Moynihan

Cork deserves public luxury not this vandalism & squalor

#DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm

Full article here

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Oh FFS When you think it can't get any worse & then you remember its Cork City Council Those in charge must really hate city & definitely don't live anywhere near centre The question becomes what do they vandalise next? Important piece @mikemoynihanex.bsky.social in todays @irishexaminer.bsky.social

Oh FFS
When you think it can't get any worse & then you remember its Cork City Council
Those in charge must really hate city & definitely don't live anywhere near centre
The question becomes what do they vandalise next?
Important piece @mikemoynihanex.bsky.social in todays @irishexaminer.bsky.social

F*ck Fast Fashion T-shirt by ffud

F*ck Fast Fashion

T-shirt by ffud

Everyone should have a home We've enough houses lying empty We need political will to make them homes again Government should introduce compulsory sales & rental & custodian squatting so everyone has a home ffud streetart for #DerelictIreland with @judesherry.bsky.social, Lwr Glanmire Rd, Cork City

Everyone should have a home
We've enough houses lying empty
We need political will to make them homes again
Government should introduce compulsory sales & rental & custodian squatting so everyone has a home

ffud streetart for #DerelictIreland with @judesherry.bsky.social, Lwr Glanmire Rd, Cork City

@tonygroves.bsky.social Today's derelict Ireland interview was worth the years subscription, inspiring tale of people who have had enough going out and doing something...

Thank you @tonygroves.bsky.social 🙏

It was great to chat, thanks so much for continuing to help keep the conversation going around these vital societal issues

#derelictireland #speirgorm

Thank you, very much appreciated 🙏

We're lucky to have @tonygroves.bsky.social & the Tortoise Shack podcast in Ireland, giving a constant platform to these vital societal issues

@judesherry.bsky.social #DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm

So housing is Government priority
Right yeah
These 7 longterm boarded up homes are owned by @dublincitycouncil.bsky.social
25min cycle from centre, next to Pheonix Park
Sell them off cheaply to 7 families who would be delighted to live in them while they slowly do them up #DerelictIreland #speirgorm

#Cork and #Kerry are badly hit by the homelessness crisis. Danny Healy Rae says he can identify multiple empty properties in his home area, I wonder did he tip off the council to add them to the #Derelict property listings in Kerry County Council? #DerelictIreland - it’s by design.

Dear @simonharrisireland.bsky.social if u had told me & @frankoconnor.bsky.social u were going to be in Cork we'd have given u a tour of 700 empty buildings within 2km of city, they could be homes for thousands & thousands but instead you choose to blame others for your failure
#DerelictIreland

I wonder why.

When we started #DerelictIreland we were told Ireland only listened to rich people
Only the rich will be able to have a say in our planning process
#PeoplePower #Speirgorm #JudicalReview #HowIrelandWorks

Housing Committee to hear that just over a quarter of approved vacant property grants are issued Also, derelict housing campaigner Dr Frank O’Connor is set to tell the committee that dereliction amounts to 'a social crime'

“Housing Committee to hear that just over a quarter of approved vacant property grants are issued” (2025) www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

Not long after we started #DerelictIreland someone from a PPN gave us a friendly warning that if we continued we would never get public funding
#HowIrelandWorks #SpeirGorm

They say it’s because there’s no capacity for wastewater provision. In which case could they not dig a septic tank?

This is a broken social contract Hoarding homes while families struggle on the streets/emergency accommodation is akin to hoarding food in a famine Shameful This is down to government policy that puts rights of property over those who need a home #DerelictIreland #RestPlayWork

This is a broken social contract
Hoarding homes while families struggle on the streets/emergency accommodation is akin to hoarding food in a famine
Shameful
This is down to government policy that puts rights of property owners over those who need a home
#DerelictIreland #RestPlayWork #SpeirGorm