Daily Archives: May 26, 2015

I remember being in a tent at Electric Picnic perhaps 3 years ago when Christy Moore belted out the Pogues ‘Thousands are Sailing’ to 15,000 very emotional people. For sure there were other sources but a good part of the emotion was the sense that it was all happening again.

Homelessness in Ireland could be solved at a stroke by allowing people without homes to move into the 302,602 empty houses in the country.   That figure comes from the National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis. It’s equivalent of half the homes in Dublin, many of the vacants being in ghost estates that developers […]