You’re better off mate. Be sure to put some suncream on though. It’s very hot out there.
Eh, you mean Ireland?
183,601 PPS numbers issued between January and July. 46k are Ukrainian. 41k are Irish (mostly newborns I assume)
You’d need a lot of gaffs to house them.
Previous years data > gov.ie - Annual Allocations: PPS Numbers
I’m sure the government will have a well thought out plan to address this.
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I was daytripping in Monaghan yesterday and we called into visit my life partner’s friend who’s home from Australia. There were a couple of other visitors, kids playing outside, people generally moving between rooms and inside and outside. Anyway, I found myself one on one (inside in the small square) with yer wan’s auld wan who(m) I’d never met before.
Being the great conversationalist I am, I ventured “are you enjoying the summer & the fine weather?”. “The weather is fantastic”, she replied, “But I love the country music and the dancing and it’s ruined because of them Ukrainians taking over the place.”
“Oh right”, I said. “Yeah they’re taking over the hotels & everywhere the dancing used to be on. I have to go to Cullaville now if I want to go dancing.”
Tough times.
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All the moaning and whining people did for years over shared rental accommodation and build to rent properties, yet there was, and still is, a very clear market for those types, but no, every unit built had to be aimed to be someones forever home. Cant be having rentals or landlords now.
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Took two weeks for me I think but a lot of that was getting the paperwork to the solicitor. There wasn’t much snagging required really, bar touch ups.
I saw Frank McDonald moaning over the weekend about a planned new 10 or 12 story tower across the road from Donnybrook rugby ground. He seemed to be objecting on the grounds that it would be made up of 1 or 2 bed flats for rent, and on aesthetic grounds. Now I often have a lot of time for what Frank writes, but I don’t get his objection to this one at all. Aesthetically what is planned looks pretty decent, it’s in a location that suits such a building, and it is fulfilling a clear need in practical terms.
its replacing a garage too - so its not like its replacing the trevi fountain
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Donnybrook has a large tv tower, floodlights and a Church steeple but dare build higher for people to live in and that is horrid.
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We need to ship these Ukrainians on. It’s simply too cruel on them and our own citizens . We’ll be housing the poor bastards in cow sheds soon.
Presumably Dermot Desmond’s missus, Pat Kenny and the local bat welfare experts are out in force against this attempt to let “transients” into the area?
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I assume Brett Desmond lives in one the family Ailesbury Road piles with Andrea Corr and kids? Or else he is line for a share of it. Like his dad and mother he seems to have become passionate about housing once it was threatened that pleb housing would be built behind one of the family D4 mansions.
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I dont know of him at all to be honest, but the replies are typical. Developer lead building is bad, so dont do it. I dont consider a one bed apartment as a home, so dont do it. The tenements from 50 years ago were bad, so dont do this. The rent will be too high, so dont build it.
Fucking clowns the lot of them.
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It’s hideous. They should be building beautiful high rises. 50 stories or more. Some absolutely beautiful buildings in Singapore. Those ten story places are neither wan thing nor t’other.
No ten storey love song there from our resident Manc.
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a young couple starting off or a person over in Dublin with work would love that but as you say, it doesnt fit into what some nimbys see as what is needed
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Four to eight stories across Dublin is what we need by all accounts.
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Not possible because we do not allow construction in certain areas.
they think 12 stories is high rise. You wouldnt have a hope in hell of getting higher than that. If this is causing so much issues, imagine something bigger?
this place in Singapore is class.
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