From this useful insight on liveability in Cork city you can see why
- people struggle to move back into cities/towns
- public consultations seem a tick box exercise
- plans not actions seem to be the norm

Thanks for the great🧵 conn donovan 👍

#RestPlayWork #SystemsDesign

But this isn't derelict
It's only vacant
Sure you could move in tomorrow morning

#DerelictIreland #DerelictDrogheda

Frank O'Connor Louth County Council Last known owner Harry McArdle.

So how is this not derelict Louth County Council
Or is it that the wrong question
Should we be asking who owns it instead

#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis

The Netherlands is increasing taxes to combat poverty
The top income tax rate (€73,000) will go up by ⬆️3.55%

Ireland is talking about lowering income taxes
dutchnews.nl/2023/09/e2-bil…

Look up and see
The city is
Falling all around us

This is #DerelictIreland
Call it out

There is nothing natural about #DerelictIreland

John Redmond St, Cork City

This one at the junction of Crosslanes and the North Road doesn’t qualify as part of #DerelictIreland according to the ⁦Louth County Council⁩ register. They even had the audacity to tell ⁦Fergus O'Dowd⁩ that they didn’t consider it derelict. This is simply not good enough.

That evictions are still a regular occurrence in Ireland after all we have been through shows that the colonised became the colonisers

image: anti-eviction banner from the archives of the National Library of Ireland

#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis #EvictionBan

Lying there derelict in the centre of our town. Castlebar cannot afford this waste of 10 acres ofserviced public land. Shocking.. #DerelictIreland

The councils/LAs across Ireland have over 3,500 empty homes
Clearly many like this one in Drogheda are longterm abandoned
What housing emergency you might ask
Surely this is a series dereliction of duty by Louth County Council

#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis

'Professionals need to innovate around material choice & construction methods, .. in areas such as adaptability & repurposing to ensure buildings are climate-ready & prepared for ongoing & future material shortages & cost inflation.'

#DerelictIreland 👇

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So the Irish Independent (through Fionnan Sheahan & Martin Osborne) finally take an interest in #DerelictIreland but surprise surprise there's a Sinn Féin angle

independent.ie/irish-news/the…

No roof, not derelict
It could only be #DerelictIreland

Frank O'Connor Cork City Council Better option\investment for the people of the @corkitycouncil is CPO on the empty site that was the old tax office site on Sullivan's quay and that should converted to a new public city park. #RestPlayWork #DerelictIreland #Greenspaces

Just double checked the ⁦Louth County Council⁩ Derelict Sites Register and this one on Mayoralty St doesn’t appear, despite the fact it hasn’t had a roof for years. #DerelictIreland

Unfortunately Donaghy’s Mill isn’t worthy of addition to the ⁦Louth County Council⁩ Derelict Sites Register.

Maybe it just isn’t derelict enough.

Rotting for decades ⁦An Taisce⁩ rates it as one of the most at risk buildings in the country.

#DerelictIreland

Just checked and double checked the ⁦Louth County Council⁩ Derelict Sites Register. This one in Fair St obviously isn’t derelict enough. No prizes for guessing who owns it. It’s hard to CPO your own property. #DerelictIreland

If you happen to be unlucky enough to spend much longer than is acceptable on approach to Drogheda via Mell, the chances are this #derelictireland site caught your eye. It’s time it caught ⁦Louth County Council⁩’s eye as it doesn’t appear on their Derelict Sites Register. We checked!

So after all these years rotting away there are plans to bring back into use as 2 homes with more to be built nearby #HousingCrisis
Plans in #DerelictIreland do regularly fall by the wayside but 🤞

Nicholas Lane, Cork City