Rob Cross

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

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

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

🔗6.0 Mayo County Council — Derelict Site Register
derelictsites.com/6-0-Mayo-Cou...

#HousingCrisis #DerelictIreland
#VacantIreland #Mayo #Ireland

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

🔗5.0 Louth County Council — Derelict Site Register
www.derelictsites.com/5-0-Louth-Co...

#HousingCrisis #DerelictIreland
#VacantIreland #Louth #Ireland

Cos this is how you act in an emergency of your own deliberate creation

Cos this is how you act in a housing emergency of your own deliberate creation

#speirgorm

Just to let everyone know, my Derelict Sites website www.derelictsites.com is now live.

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Thanks Frank, just to let everyone know, my Derelict Sites website www.derelictsites.com is now live.

Just chat to @robcross247.bsky.social He has already done the work for you So no more excuses, time to get on with charging the derelict property tax & ending this social crime #DerelictIreland

Just chat to @robcross247.bsky.social

He has already done the work for you

So no more excuses, time to get on with charging the derelict property tax & ending this social crime

#DerelictIreland

Today's Trinity College 22,000-strong student body is roughly comparable to, or could exceed, the entire population of Dublin City at the time Trinity opened in 1592.
🗺️ John Speed's map of Dublin City published in 1611. Trinity College (12 on the map).
#Dublin #History

A solution for Enniscorthy flooding. 🤔
📽️ #AI

Just add a few curves 🤔
People generally prefer curved buildings over harsh, angular, rectilinear designs.
#Dublin

Nightmare on Popham's Road, Farranree, Cork. 😡
#DerelictIreland #Cork
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Happy to host AAI‬⁩ members earlier for visit to passive plus scheme under construction in Church Road Killiney @phplus.bsky.social @passivehouseie.bsky.social @ipha.bsky.social

Wouldn't it be a good idea if Waterford Council could conceal these ugly steel traffic signal cabinets with wrap-around bench seating? 🤔
Here is my before and after:

📷The Clock Tower, Meagher's Quay (Coal Quay), Waterford City.

Sarsfield House office block in Limerick is likely to be demolished, but wouldnt it be better to retrofit it and create 90–130 social & affordable apartments? Retrofitting is cheaper & faster than demolition and new construction. Plus, the greenest building is one that already exists.
#HousingCrisis

There's a good reason past generations of town planners avoided building houses and shops on river floodplains, which they clearly marked on their historical OS maps.

SkyCam Ireland showing the devastating flooding caused by Storm Frank in 2015 at Enniscorthy.
#StormChandra ##Wexford

The Dandelion Market on South King Street was a popular Dublin market that operated from 1970 to 1981. The market was significant in U2's early career, featuring 10 performances by the band, including 8 shows in 1979.
#Dublin

An Garda Síochána managing Dublin's traffic during the demolition of buildings in 1986 to make way for the St. Stephen's Green Shopping Centre. 👮 🏗️#Dublin

Rice's Pub on St. Stephen's Green and the Dandelion Market on South King Street were demolished in 1986 to make way for the St. Stephen's Green Shopping Centre. The Slazenger family had assembled the site over 15 years, beginning in 1966.
#Dublin

Back in the day, Rice's Pub on St. Stephen's Green. 🍻
#Dublin

Poorly engineered bridge,which acts as an obstruction in Enniscorthy when the Slaney River floods. A good reason the old Enniscorthy Bridge was built further downriver and at a sufficient height in 1775—unlike the Seamus Rafter Bridge, built in 1991,which the OPW now plans to demolish
#StormChandra

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One potential solution to save the Portland Row pitch could be to replicate the example of nearby Belvedere College, which converted its unused roof spaces into a playing pitch and athletics track.
#latelateshow #Dublin
#LeaveOurPitchAlone #SaveTheStrandPitch

Photograph of William T. Cosgrave hoisting the Dublin City flag on City Hall during the Irish authorities taking over possession, 1922.
🇮🇪🏰🏰🏰
#TheColourOfIreland #Dublin
📷 Part of Cashman Collection at the National Museum of Ireland.

1970s

1970s

2009

St. Catherine's Bakery on Thomas Court in the Liberties, Dublin 8.
📷1970s and 2009

Did you know that the bakery's huge oven was used to cook the locals' Christmas turkeys back in the day? This was common practice throughout Ireland. 🦃🍗
#Dublin

It's frustrating to see how dysfunctional Ireland has become.😡

In my visualisation, red blocks represent some of the Derelict and Vacant Sites in Phibsborough, Dublin 7.

#HousingCrisis #DerelictIreland

Four derelict buildings in Mayo town are set to be demolished and turned into housing— Local authorities must ensure that our traditional streetscapes are redeveloped sympathetically, prioritising renovation over demolition to reduce our carbon footprint.
#DerelictIreland #Mayo

It's no wonder Ireland is facing a shortage of new housing construction. ⛳
#HousingCrisis
'Limerick golf club objects to proposed housing development citing 'stray balls' risk to residents,'
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It's sad to see this historical building now being used to store kegs of beer. 😡
#Dublin #DerelictIreland

An increase of 5,454 homeless people in just two years shows that the government's 'Housing For All' policies have failed and need radical change.

📈Nov 2023:
11,542 people homeless (record high)
📈Nov 2024:
15,199 (another record, +32%)
📈Nov 2025:
16,996 (highest ever, +12%)
#HousingCrisis