She’s going bald by the looks. Hope NAMA has enough in petty cash to pay business class to turkey.
At least it was the British tax payer via RBS who funded that particular silicone valley.
Nah mate, that’s just the Drogba hairline
Who is now bald coincidentally enough.
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I’d say that came as a surprise to him.
How is Gervinho?
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So when she’s dead and gone, and buried in the ground, there will just be a pair of tits left in the coffin once the earth and it’s living creatures have had their way with the remains?
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You always bring a unique perspective
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Ashes to ashes dust to just a huge pair of tits
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First time I heard that phrase was in the school yard circa 1991 when some lad said to me ‘did ya hear what the priest said at Freddie Mercurys funeral? Ashes to ashes dust to dust, if he stuck to the pussy he’d still be with us’ . Same fella is probably a far right poster on Twitter now.
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Just stumbled across that post when clicking onto the Tec7 post above it.
I just happen to be reading his book at the moment. Richie wasn’t happy at the time but of course was very happy thereafter.
The bit about the bishop was gas. The bishop writing back to him saying it was a matter for the pope.
In the end he makes an interesting point that he knows of nobody else in kk that was forced to move like him and his brother at that time.
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The Hogans were not “forced” to move – as I explained, clearly. They could have hurled with Bennettsbridge. I am going to say no more than that people are naive to take any statement about deep emotion at face value.
Good luck to Paddy Hogan and Richie Hogan, grand fellas and brilliant hurlers. RIchie’s current frankness is a fine antidote to the usual punditry flim flam.
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Ok, a Quick Look through the relevant pages doesn’t reveal the word forced.
But the poor young fella must have felt under huge pressure to consider writing to the pope.
Back on topic please.
I have no memories of it.
It passed me by in a dead end job.
Yes please. We’ve lads who give out about the attention the likes of teenager footballers and schools rugby get when we have fellas who have an encyclopaedic memory of where people who won an underage competition nearly 30 years ago went to primary school.
Let’s get this back on track, 20 years ago this week
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Showbizireland was a great oul website. Lads getting the fear Tuesday and Wednesday seeing their mush falling out of Krystle or Lillies from Saturday night.
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The hard hitting stories.
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Lets have more memories of Caroline Morahan’s big diddies and BJ mouth, and less discussion of Kilkenny parish boundaries.
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From today’s Irish Times
Irish-led property platform sets sights on fledgling Polish private rental sector
JOE BRENNANA new Irish-led property platform has set its sights on the fledgling Polish private rental sector (PRS) market, at a time when the Republic’s rental market is in a state of flux amid a fresh round of planned reforms.
Dublin-based Bartek Real Estate, backed by a board of senior Irish legal, real estate and investment figures including Niall Molloy, founder of data centres operator Echelon, and David Dillon, co-founder of law firm Dillon Eustace, is seeking to raise up to €40 million of initial equity.
The firm, where veteran Irish investor in Polish property William Gleeson is also a board member and whose son, Conor Gleeson, is a co-founder, said it was working on an initial development project of 133 apartments in Lodz, a city about 140km southwest of Warsaw. It is assessing more than 50 project opportunities.
Bartek also plans to raise debt to deploy alongside equity on developments. It will work in partnership with Polish developer OPG Property Professionals, where William Gleeson is founder and chairman. Bartek has a build-and-hold strategy.
“Poland is at an inflection point – with strong rental demand, a housing shortfall of over 1.5 million units, and a nascent PRS market ready for institutionalisation,” said Conor Gleeson, who previously worked with accountancy group Azets Ireland and private equity firm Renatus. “This is a chance to be early and smart.”
Poland, which has a population of about 38 million and has been one of the fastest-growing economies in the EU in recent years, currently only has 0.1 per cent of housing stock in the hands of institutional PRS investors, according to Bartek. Savills estimates that institutional PRS accounts for about a fifth of Dublin’s 125,000 stock of rental units.
PwC estimated in a recent overview of the Polish PRS market that institutional rental stock grew by 32 per cent in the last year alone to about 20,000 units. It forecasts the market to quadruple from this to over 80,000 units by 2028.
According to Eurostat data, Poland has an overcrowding rate – where homes lack enough rooms for the number of people in the household – of nearly 37 per cent, compared with the EU average of 17.5 per cent. Much of the housing stock is communist-era flats, often prefabricated, that are badly in need of modernisation.
Unlike Ireland and a number of other European markets, Poland does not have legal limits on rent increases.
Following a wave of PRS investment in the Irish market between 2016 and 2022, led by international investors, development has fallen dramatically as a result of a spike in interest rates and tightening of rent controls during the pandemic in rent pressure zones (RPZ), according to industry observers.
Currently, rent increases in RPZ areas cannot be greater than the rate of inflation or 2 per cent – whichever is lower.
Under the planned new national rent control system announced this week – which is set to fully kick in from March 2026 – rent increases for tenancies would be capped in most cases by inflation or a maximum cap of 2 per cent similar to the current RPZ system. However, rent control for new apartment blocks would be tied to inflation even when this exceeds 2 per cent as part of efforts to encourage their construction.