‘An entire generation of young people from the Gaeltacht cannot buy a house nor a site in their own area’
by agithecaca
‘An entire generation of young people from the Gaeltacht cannot buy a house nor a site in their own area’
by agithecaca
6 comments
Not unique to gaeltacht sweetie
ok and ? its happeeing all over the country
Join the club.
Edit: In all seriousness, the absolute last thing this country needs to focus on is more zoning regulations for housing lists and/or construction.
I know gaelgoiri love nothing more than nailing themselves to a cross but the solution to this is to build, build and build. Not start drawing up laws about how whopper you have to be at Sraith Pictuiri to live in a certain post code.
Let’s have a little think about this for a second – they can’t get planning.
In an economically deprived region that cries out for grants at every available opportunity.
That is characterised by famine walls, poor soil, and outward migration since the Industrial Revolution.
Given it was literally **their parents and grandparents** who voted to successfully kill off all semblance of development and planning in the region based on everything from preventing holiday homes to good old xenophobia, they’ve made their leaba and they can téigh a chodladh in it now. Is cuma linn.
Not sure we should be allowing one offs in the middle of Connemara that are difficult and expensive to service. Not great for the landscape either.
On the other hand, if we don’t allow people to actually live in the Gaeltacht then the language will die completely. That’s probably a greater evil.
In summary, I’ve no clue.
The comments here are disheartening. The Gealtacht is the only place the Irish language is alive and flourishing. Now it’s being eroded away by AirBnB and the governments inaction on the housing crisis.
Yeah it’s happening everywhere, but for every Gealtacht native that might have to move out of their region it has the double effect of what we all are facing but also further loss of the Irish language.