An adult child of mine was seriously assaulted with a hurley, almost four years ago.
Perpetrators were caught, CCTV was recovered.
Just got a letter - today! - saying DPP has decided to prosecute.
No court date yet.
#howirelandworks — Public Fediverse posts
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We need to build a movement to fight back against this cruel government. Just listen to Micheál Martin say how much they're 'doing for people'.
We have to get organised in our communities to fight for an #AffordableIreland, because we will never get it from FF-FG. -
War is a racket.
This government refused to take meaningful actions for the last 5 years to stop the price gouging and profiteering from private companies, and it seems they're not planning to start now.
We should have price controls for essentials like energy and heating. We can already see the price gouging as a result of the US-Israel war in the middle east.
We have to stop this greedflation.
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We had a powerful #AffordableIreland march today calling for an emergency winter payment.
This has to be the start of people getting organised in communities around the country. We know people power works from forcing the government back on the SNA cuts. We need everyone to come together to fight this austerity government.
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"Neither King nor Kaiser."
We live on a planet where government is scaremongering so they can give Billions to the international arms industry, entrenching us with these warmongering imperialist powers.
We need to fight this government's drive to militarisation and attempts to scrap the triple lock.
We need to fight for food, not bombs; for homes, not howitzers.
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"If the housing crisis ended, then their friends - the developers, the big landlords, wouldn't be able to make the sort of money they make."
We need rid of FF, FG, and their Lowry / Healy-Rae independents.
We need a movement on the streets, in our communities, to fight back against this government and these rent increases.
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You couldn't make it up.
Last night a landlord government rammed through a bill literally designed to makes rents skyrocket.
Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, and Healy-Rae / Lowry independents are pushing people even deeper into poverty, egged on by the landlord lobby Independent Ireland.
This will result in even more people being forced into homelessness, and people struggling on the edge with already rip-off rents being pushed over. -
This isn't normal. We can't allow the government to make it normal.
We need an eviction ban, a reinstatement of the tenant-in-situ scheme, and a state construction company to build pubic housing!
#HousingCrisis #HowIrelandWorks #TenantInSitu #CostOfGreed -
It's not rocket science.
The housing, cost of living, and healthcare crises exist because the government represents those that profit and enrich themselves from them.
We must unite against FF & FG, now propped up by the Lowry/Healy-Rae fake independents.
We must fight for an ecosocialist alternative.
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This really is a cruel government.
It's farcical that people must face the prospect of becoming homeless AGAIN just so that they can access the newer rate of homeless HAP.This must be fixed, so that nobody else is faced with this situation!
#HousingCrisis #HAP #HomelessHAP #HowIrelandWorks -
This FF-FG-Lowry/Healy-Rae landlord government will only ever rule in their interests. We need rid of them.
It is their political choice to make people homeless.
We need State Construction Company to build housing without the profiteering. Bring the vacant homes into use. We need real protections for renters - not these new pretent ones from the government, that benefit landlords.
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This is going to be a disaster.
We've a government made up of landlords, which represents landlords, who want rents to increase.
Take to the streets to #RaiseTheRoof Tuesday 17th June, 6pm outside the Dáil.
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The PROBLEM is that government is doubling down on their failed policy of throwing money at the private sector.
Instead of 'hoping' private investors will fix the housing crisis they profit from, we need a State Construction Company that will actually build the housing we need.
Those at the top are profiteering off people's housing misery. We need to end it.
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All the government's spin is to divert attention from the reality that government plans to gut Rent Pressure Zones will drive rents even higher and force THOUSANDS more into homelessness.
This is a disaster, and will make the housing crisis even worse.
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"We serve neither king nor kaiser"
This government's promises to triple military spending are NOT about addressing the poor conditions of our Defense Forces.
It is to put us further on the path of aligning with NATO.
Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are the modern day Redmondites.
#SaveIrishNeutrality #TripleLock #Neutrality #IrishNeutrality #HowIrelandWorks -
Does the government really think Brendan/Padraig/PB McDonagh can continue in his €420,000 role as head of NAMA?
This is someone who charges €10,000+ per week for a rental property without planning permission in a Rent Pressure Zone.
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Do people 'in the know' just have a bunch of aliases for different properties and ventures??
Brendan/Padraig/PB McDonagh's €420,000 role at NAMA has to be untenable at this stage.
👀PB McDonnacha charges more than €10,000 per week for short term let...
#HowIrelandWorks #NAMA -
How can a person who caused the housing crisis be appointed as 'Housing Tsar'?
Brendan McDonagh is CEO of Nama, who flogged off land suitable for housing that was in control of the state. 90% of it went to US vulture funds, who sold it back to the same developers who took out the bad loans to begin with!
#HousingCrisis #HousingTsar #HowIrelandWorks -
It's no wonder they won't even debate the housing crisis...
Record homelessness and child homelessness.
100,000+ vacant homes.
All while they miss every single one of THEIR OWN housing targets!
Their policies work: Landlords and developers profit off people's housing misery!
#HousingCrisis #HowIrelandWorks #CostOfGreed -
The government don't want this debated...
Remember: this may still be happening if it weren't for a brave whistleblower, a series of Parliamentary Questions, and the reporting of The Ditch.
How was this allowed and able to happen? The children and former patients involved need answers!
#TempleStreet #TempleStreetScandal #TheDitch #HowIrelandWorks -
Stop your worrying, a housing Czar is on the way.
This is a sick joke.
#HousingCrisis #CostOfLivingCrisis #HowIrelandWorks
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There's an incredible amount of lies and spin coming from government.
People see through it. They're not going to be able to talk their way out of it!
#LowrysLackeys #FakeOpposition #HowIrelandWorks -
This right-wing government are ideologically tied to reliance on private developers.
They have all the money in the world to fix the housing crisis directly through a state construction company, but they CHOOSE to instead funnel money to private developers, vulture funds, and landlords....
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In case you missed this yesterday, Minister Alan Dillon went on RTE to defend government plans to ram through change today without debate to cut time from opposition and give leaders questions to Lowry group and FFFG backbenchers.
When challenged he said he's not "au fait" with proposals.
You couldn't make it up.
#LowrysLackeys #HowIrelandWorks
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The government aren't comfortable hearing this...
But this stroke with the Lowry group is an authoritarian maneuver!
They're trying to mask it, but it's actually about diminishing the real opposition's ability to hold the government to account!
#LowrysLackeys #HowIrelandWorks
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This authoritarian move to facilitate the Lowry and Healy-Rae groups to steal opposition time will be vigorously opposed!
#LowrysLackeys #HowIrelandWorks -
"I'm more focused on solution-driven approaches, and all I've received in the last 3 or 4 days is 'just a great opportunity to have a go'."
- Micheál Martin, who has been in government 19 out of the last 27 years.We're back to the future on housing...
#HowIrelandWorks
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Finally the RTB is taking some action against landlords who break the rent pressure zones. What is the response of the Taoiseach? Float the scrapping of the rent pressure zones!
We need proper rent controls to bring rents down.
#RPZ #HousingCrisis #HowIrelandWorks
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/housing-planning/2025/02/14/thousands-of-landlords-face-fines-of-up-to-15000-in-fresh-crackdown-on-rent-rise-compliance/ -
Good jaysus... our health insurance premium has increased by €1400 since last year (3 adults)! It's gone up by 51% over what we paid in 2020! #wtf #HowIrelandWorks
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Dun Laoghaire Rathdown county council gave BAM the contract to construct a new road from Carrickmines to Kilternan. Seems strange to criticise a company and then give them another state funded project #HowIrelandWorks https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0922/1471310-childrens-hospital/
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A TD resigns (someone called Joe Carey, FG, from Clare?) and *of course* the best person to replace him is his:
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Now... imagine we took the €19 million we spend annually on greyhound racing and killing excess/ old/ underperforming dogs, and added that €19 million to the €10 million we spend on elite / international-standard athletics... #olympics #HowIrelandWorks
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via @DublinCommuters: "Richard Shakespeare is meeting with the Traders Alliance AGAIN!!
"We have to take to the streets and protest in order to get a meeting, they just pick up the phone
"Please email him and tell him it’s unacceptable
✉️ [email protected] "
#HowIrelandWorks #Dublin #StreetsAreForPeople #ActiveTravel #TransportForDublin #SaferStreets #RoadSafety #MastoDaoine
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Drove past the barriers on Mount St. & the Grand Canal yesterday going to #PearlJam. Utilities taken away from the public because "that sort of thing shouldn't be seen here" so everyone suffers.
Parked up at a friend's parents, walked to the gig. But not the *direct* way - pedestrian access blocked off. We guessed because concert-goers may have pissed behind a wall? But again, why implement a working solution ("Put some portaloos there") when you can just ruin it for all?
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#HowIrelandWorks. Every time you see one of the tents of a desperately in need person removed, just know you as a tax payer are paying for its supply & destruction. One department of government is paying for them while the other side is paying to remove them. The government is scuttling about making solo runs without working together to come up with a humane plan. It is more hell bent in throwing others under the bus & putting out dangerous & incendiary soundbites. #ireland #nevervoteFForFG
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I see the "Ireland is Full" people have taken to proving their point by burning down perfectly good accommodation, which was not full.
Full house bingo if Drew Harris now comes out and says it involved people from the right and left
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ICCL continues to monitor Garda involvement in evictions and we reiterate that their involvement is only necessary if responding to actual or threatened criminal behaviour and to maintain public order.
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#HowIrelandWorks #MastoDaoine #Ireland #Waterford #AnGardaSíochána #Gardaí #evictions #landlords #tenants #ICCL
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Criminals of Ireland! Do not trouble yourself with breaking and entering to rob someone's home. Merely call the Gardaí, telling them that you are evicting a tenant, and they will gladly assist you in your efforts.
https://www.thejournal.ie/tenant-removed-from-home-waterford-6165748-Sep2023/
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What kind of anointed successor bullshit is this?
(via @samtranum, from elsewhere)
"Letter from Owen Keegan asking the minister to appoint Richard Shakespeare chief executive of Dublin City Council temporarily, from 10 Sept., until a permanent one is chosen."
https://dublininquirer.com/2023/08/23/why-hasnt-owen-keegans-replacement-been-chosen-yet/
#Dublin #DublinCityCouncil #OwenKeegan #MastoDaoine #HowIrelandWorks
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Possible mass grave found on the grounds of Seán Ross Abbey mother & baby home - bigger than Tuam.
Nothing on #RTÉ about it.
Rumours Roderic O'Gorman will soon offer compensation to people who've been in three different M&B Homes, if they were there for periods between 8 months and 5 days and 11 months and 72 days...
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Having deliberately pursued policy that drove up land prices and increased cost of development govt now going ahead with using public money to bail out developers to build private apartments sold at full market price. Never miss an opportunity to shovel public money into the private sector.
Absolute Disgrace #HowIrelandWorks
https://www.businesspost.ie/news/green-light-for-e450m-state-scheme-subsidising-private-apartments/
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"Fine Gael minister of state Damien English lied about home ownership on planning application". Time to dust off the #HowIrelandWorks hastag!
https://www.ontheditch.com/damien-english-planning-permission/
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Two US private equity firms are going to make €380 million from flipping their combined 80 per cent stake in National Broadband Ireland, less than 3 years after the contract was signed. Disgusting. Why do we stand for this?! #HowIrelandWorks https://www.businesspost.ie/news/departing-investors-to-make-e380m-from-sale-of-national-broadband-stake/