There’s a four day old report on the BBC website that’s refusing to go away. On the 22 February the BBC published a video report covering the cost of recladding a private apartment complex at Glasgow Harbour found to have “similar” cladding to that believed to have accelerated the spread of the fire on Grenfell Tower in June last year. As a result of that tragedy building inspections were carried out on local authority high rises throughout the United Kingdom, finding that of the 173 structures tested in England and Wales 165 were clad with the hazardous material.
Life in Ireland’s Emergency Accommodation
What makes them obvious from the outside is the conspicuous placement of ornaments on their window ledges and families coming and going from side and back entrances with shopping and school bags.
Renting in Dublin and the Failure of Law
With one in five TDs in the current Dáil being owners of private rental accommodation it is no wonder that nothing has been done – even as homelessness in the country reaches record levels – to help keep ordinary working families in their homes.
Greedy Dublin Landlords
This is the thing about economic growth; it always comes at a cost for the people who don’t economically matter, and this has always been the way in Ireland.
How Property Impoverishes the Socially Vulnerable
“Sick houses” have always been a feature of the cheapest housing in Dublin; houses and flats that are sodden with dampness and eaten by moths and mildew, and the government – not wishing to cost itself any expense – is loath to intervene.
An Anatomy of Astroturfing in Popular Social Resistance
Follow @UrFhasaidh Popular social resistance to Austerity – or oppression of any kind – is powerful only when it is both organic and truly popular. This is to say that it is a natural movement against the structures of social, economic, and political oppression which arises naturally from the oppressed and carries the weight of … Continue reading An Anatomy of Astroturfing in Popular Social Resistance
