Eviction after 50 years

Well said!!

I can add to that. I spent thousands of flights on the last 25 years and nothing to show, I should own a plane by now 🤣

If this case was in the courts, then it must have gone through the rtb first and the tenants ignored the rtb decision.

How does that work? I thought the rtb was set up to replace the courts for tenant and landlord disputes. Does an rtb decision not have the same weight as a court/judge decision? Whats the point of having the rtb dispute service if it ends up before a judge anyway.

It doesn't. What is worse the RTB BBwill enforce it decisions on LL eviction's against LL's in courts but will not try to enforce eviction decisions against tenants. Therefore tenants overhold with impunity and LL have to spend a serious amount of money getting them enforced.

On RBB I imagine these gits or there families are supporters of his and canvass for him.

Correct. Their "all property is theft" mantra seems to be selective. If you push some of them hard enough then they may agree that they have no issue with people owning a house and living in it themselves.

Lol.

He traded up to where he lives now.

Settled his property tax bill too along the way.

Cant speak for parts of the country outside dublin, but there are plenty of council housing developments here that are good quality and these days they sell for large sums. Most of those council houses are near the city, have large gardens as well as public green spaces, near transport, schools etc. I dont recall ever hearing about any public housing that had construction problems. The first 'flats' complexes built in the 30's were typically 4/5 stories and are now protected structures afaik and other multi-storey developments that were built in the 50/60's are still occupied.

Agree that a lack of maintenance by the council in flat complexes can cause huge issues eg lifts not working or damp conditions, but don't agree that our social housing is poor quality or built to a lower standard than private developments.

A lot of the areas today associated with large-scale social housing were built as part of tenement clearances. Ballyfermot, for example, was largely populated by people from north-side tenements. These people probably wanted to stay together to preserve the communities.

I didn't.

Probably not, no. However, I think that the whole model of social housing is not going to be sustainable going forward. The current model where people who do not work (home-grown or imported) are given accommodation whilst working people are left to rent hovels or pay decades-long mortgages is financially and ethically unsustainable. Let's see what happens.

The irony is those many of those very estates are actually unaffordable today - all gentrified. What most people would have turned their nose up at 30 years ago are now in high demand- whilst small houses, big gardens (relative to todays new build standards) mean extendability- and of course very close to Dublin City, for the ones I’m thinking about.

I never lived in a social housing estate but sorry to say, when young, myself and all my friends stayed well clear of the ones near us- we were genuinely afraid even walking close by to them- fear of the unknown I guess- victims and perpetrators of prejudice at the same time - and lack of understanding.

But whilst older and wiser, I wouldn’t want to see such estates again - some bad apples amongst mostly lovely people gave the estates a terrible name and made life very difficult for all- especially parents trying to keep their children on the straight and narrow- a lot of good people went bad on those estates

I think kids in general are less streetwise overall - while I didn’t live on a council estate neither was a ferried around in a Volvo estate 😀- it was walk to school on my own at the age of 7 onwards then bus to school on my own then cycle into city centre …on my own.

I had a great time back in the day aged 9 or 10 hanging out in the city center whilst waiting on various extra curricular activities to start, on my own in shops like Woolworths playing with the toys, going for a burger in the newly opened Burger King etc - all before the age of 10.

I know Tusla would be called if someone heard that happening today but back then I was a free agent going/coming to my various recreational activities- not a bother on me.

Lists could be thinned out by removing those that don’t need to be on it. EU nationals who cannot pay for themselves can be repatriated. We don’t do this. Might get things moving a bit quicker.

It can be built, and it is being built. However, people arrive at a rate that outpaces construction and the availability of services. There are apartment blocks under construction all over Dublin, yet rents and house prices continue to go up. I'm sure that many immigrants are fine people, but it doesn't change the situation.

Also, I thought that we were meant to be cutting emissions and looking after the environment. What's "green" about enormous construction projects? An empty field full of grass is about as green as anything gets.

Anyways, I won't try to change your mind. I'm a single, childless man with absolutely nothing to lose. If the population of Ireland is content for the country to turn into some sort of globalist hub....well I've rather stopped caring :/

"It sounds more like you don't really like the additional competition for resources that you have had to deal with."

I really don't see why anyone would like that.

An empty field full of grass is basically a "green desert", it's contributing virtually nothing to either the environment or biodiversity. If we're going to dress anti-immigrant sentiment up as concern for the environment then let's at least be creative about it and advocate for all those empty fields to be planted with native broadleafs or rewetted or something.

Raising genuine concerns about Ireland's immigration policy (or lack of) is not "anti-immigration sentiment" in any negative sense. The levels of immigration to this country are placing enormous costs on people, and they have every right to raise these concerns.