Some Craic on Joe Duffy now
Niall Boylan was better earlier. He had some homeless activist on and the guy wouldn’t accept that people need to take some personal responsibility. The stories that some of the folk rang up with where unreal.
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Philip just bitchslapping the ignoramous Nazi bitch 
Boucher hayes would give you heartburn, a painful prick
So when it backs up your argument, take it on board. Surprising that.
I’d say this one gives out the communion or at least reads at mass,
An awful stupid bitch
auld one fight.
I beg your pardon?
They went on holiday mate, he took a few of his sons buddies as well, nothing weird about it at all 
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I just put on Joe Duffy there … fuck it i’m in tears here - Genuine families that have worked hard but are still made homeless … it would break your heart. What a country.
There is often a rush to personalise these cases, as in “why has this person become homeless?” Sometimes that can be seen as pushing an agenda or ignoring the overall plight of all homeless, but to be honest, if you dont find the reasons as to why the person became homeless, then it will not be solved as to how improve the situation.
I havent seen or heard a massive amount of news on this, one snippet I did hear was this woman was on social media celebrating getting her new “private rented house” 3 weeks ago. What happened in the intervening 3 weeks from her moving into her new house to having to sleep in a garda station?
There is a housing crisis. House costs are soaring and there is a crippling amount of levys and taxes being spent on land and development costs before the house even get built driving up the price and leaving them unattainable for the average family to buy. But in saying that, people have to live within their means, whether that is buying your dream house or what you can afford, taking the big expensive holidays etc. There is a self responsibility needed.
I’ve never been in a situation like this woman I couldnt imagine being in it so am loathe to criticise too much. At the same time, I dont understand how a house that can accommodate 5 is a worse option than sleeping rough. Was it that 2 kids couldnt go or that the house didnt sleep 5 and 2 would be on a couch or floor or whatever? And when did this situation arise? Again, its personalising one persons homeless story when there is an overall problem. I dont know. Its a fucked up situation either way, and its the kids being brought up in it that will feel it most.
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careful, you’ll be called a weak, permanently outraged, screaming mary, snowflake.
I’m going to collect my little one from childcare as soon as my 15:30 is done and marvel at her innocence and joy for the evening
She’ll probably marvel at yours.
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hopefully.
No matter what your stance, whether you want to vilify her background or her being a lone mother with loose morals, surely everyone can agree that a lot of our problems stem from a broken system? While a number of people are genuine cases there is also people taking advantage of a handout system – every person on the island is as culpable as the next for this system existing, it’s not exclusive to one section of society… some of them are merely taking advantage of it - but we all created it… you can talk about people with disdain and spit on them but it changes nothing until we change our culture. If people spent as much time and energy in addressing these issues as they do in putting people down and keeping them down, we would be in a much better place… poverty and the handout culture only breeds poverty and a handout culture so it’s counter productive kicking people caught up in this system… Capitalism means we will always have poor people but we can surely put a better system in place for people at the bottom rungs of society. - Work for your dole and enhance your community ( plant foods, paint the estate, tidy the streets, learn new skills) and complete the state examinations - leaving cunts sit at home to claim what they want and to pass this onto the next generation only creates more friction then the well intended purpose of welfare in the first place … but there’s no political will out there to change any of this… politicians just want to pass the buck and the people dont want to challenge politicians… so where do we go?
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Your inability to engage both the point and reality is noted.
How much is the average rent in Dublin now? Thought I heard on the wireless this morning that it was €1800 per month!
people are too busy challenging each other to challenge the politicians.
it’s a horrible stasis we are in.
even when the politicians are challenged they’ll pay homage to a solution with lip service or a short term fix for votes.
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Because we allow them … We voted out FF back in 2011 and they are as bauld and corrupt as ever with a strong percentage of support still behind them.
In my estate in Dublin an average month’s rent would have paid for the purchase price of the house within about 16 years.