FYI Irish Times has a useless paywall, you can get around it by clicking refresh and then stopping the refresh.
Summary from TLDR this:
“Once it was the totem pole of the Celtic Tiger where bedraggled debutantes ate breakfast at dawn and Seán Dunne, the era’s most ostentatious developer, proposed building a diamond-shaped skyscraper.
The lights went out about three years ago.
The reporter listed the locations of existing refugee accommodations as Drimnagh, East Wall and Clondalkin.
They are what were traditionally called working class areas.
When resentment that has built up over decades of social deprivation in these areas erupts and is directed at people who have fled their own countries for their lives and their livelihoods, Official Ireland, comfortably ensconced in the leafy suburbs, tut-tuts with disapproval.
[ Róisín Ingle: The warm and welcoming community I live in is being tainted by protests ] What they do not have is the wherewithal to make public protests unnecessary by engaging lawyers and taking their case to the High Court, as did a residents’ association on Pembroke Road, where Jurys stands, when they obtained an order stopping the State using a guesthouse in their midst as a reception centre for asylum seekers in 2000.”
Anyone know why this place is empty?
Is there plans to build offices and apartments on it?
Is been amazing to see the changes on the Sherbourne road, behind it, in the last decade.
Plenty of housing in the country, just lying idle.
If the Ireland-is-full brigade want to prove that they’re not just interested in bashing foreigners, this is exactly the kind of thing to focus on. But they won’t
I’ll give you a hint
>*Ballsbridge and similar Dublin enclaves of privilege do not house large numbers of people seeking asylum*
Be a mighty handy building to wage Jihad on the American embassy from.
Can someone tell me why there are refugees from Albania, Georgia, Russia and further afield coming in under the pretense that Ukrainians are being housed. Are more people than needs to be being burdened on the system? Are these countries also at war with someone or a civil war? Pardon my ignorance
Oh God no, that’s way too close to Roderic’s house
Standards of housing, safety and cleanliness are red lines unless I want them not to be. irishtimes/bollicks.
People have been screaming about vacant properties for years, there is a vacant hotel outside newbridge as well, but government aren’t interested
That heated outdoor pool was unreal
Yeah. But it’s not in a working class area. They’ve already used a court injunction to stop asylum seekers facilities in Dublin 4. Nimby capital
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Refugees in Ballsbridge?
Can’t be having that….
FYI Irish Times has a useless paywall, you can get around it by clicking refresh and then stopping the refresh.
Summary from TLDR this:
“Once it was the totem pole of the Celtic Tiger where bedraggled debutantes ate breakfast at dawn and Seán Dunne, the era’s most ostentatious developer, proposed building a diamond-shaped skyscraper.
The lights went out about three years ago.
The reporter listed the locations of existing refugee accommodations as Drimnagh, East Wall and Clondalkin.
They are what were traditionally called working class areas.
When resentment that has built up over decades of social deprivation in these areas erupts and is directed at people who have fled their own countries for their lives and their livelihoods, Official Ireland, comfortably ensconced in the leafy suburbs, tut-tuts with disapproval.
[ Róisín Ingle: The warm and welcoming community I live in is being tainted by protests ] What they do not have is the wherewithal to make public protests unnecessary by engaging lawyers and taking their case to the High Court, as did a residents’ association on Pembroke Road, where Jurys stands, when they obtained an order stopping the State using a guesthouse in their midst as a reception centre for asylum seekers in 2000.”
Anyone know why this place is empty?
Is there plans to build offices and apartments on it?
Is been amazing to see the changes on the Sherbourne road, behind it, in the last decade.
Plenty of housing in the country, just lying idle.
If the Ireland-is-full brigade want to prove that they’re not just interested in bashing foreigners, this is exactly the kind of thing to focus on. But they won’t
I’ll give you a hint
>*Ballsbridge and similar Dublin enclaves of privilege do not house large numbers of people seeking asylum*
Be a mighty handy building to wage Jihad on the American embassy from.
Can someone tell me why there are refugees from Albania, Georgia, Russia and further afield coming in under the pretense that Ukrainians are being housed. Are more people than needs to be being burdened on the system? Are these countries also at war with someone or a civil war? Pardon my ignorance
Oh God no, that’s way too close to Roderic’s house
Standards of housing, safety and cleanliness are red lines unless I want them not to be. irishtimes/bollicks.
People have been screaming about vacant properties for years, there is a vacant hotel outside newbridge as well, but government aren’t interested
That heated outdoor pool was unreal
Yeah. But it’s not in a working class area. They’ve already used a court injunction to stop asylum seekers facilities in Dublin 4. Nimby capital