#Ireland is in a housing emergency yet we have #Nama properties not being used. Petition delivered to Michael Noonan today. #ApolloHouse pic.twitter.com/N2BOfXevGi
— Mick Caul (@caulmick) January 3, 2017
This afternoon.
Outside the offices of the Department of Finance on Upper Merrion Street, Dublin 2.
Supporters of Home Sweet Home, including Carrie Hennessy (speaking in photograph above), deliver a letter and petition calling on the Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan, to direct NAMA to use its property assets to address the homelessness crisis.
Earlier: Apollo, Nama And You
Sam Boal/Rollingnews
Update:
Short film by Johnny Cullen on today’s march.
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Can anyone link me or even just give info on who the actual head of home sweet home. Who actually runs it.
This is really annoying the hell out of you isn’t it. And the lack of a leader really bends your mind.
…don’t worry…a spontaneous popular movement like this will soon spawn several new charities with entitled CEOs, PR and fundraisers…a potential new candidate for the next presidential election should also emerge from these ranks…
+1 nicely spotted :)
it’s the kind of culture I get to see with increasing frequency in a lot of the crowds I have to visit in my line of work…e.g. root cause analysis not used to understand the problem cause anymore moreso “whom” made the error/decision/was unlucky enough to be in the vicinity of the problem when it happened/etc.
arseholes playing the man not the ball
must be like a module now on these IMI courses heheh
frustrating indeed not to have someone to focus a dirt dig on when notions threatened :)
So basically no answer. Grand lets keep using the Apollo house people as pawns with no accountability.
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Doubtless some loony leftie who is a cousin of Pol Pot and regularly disrespects the Virgin Mary. Is that good enough, Anom. Let’s get busy tearing them down – we know it makes sense.
Accountability doesn’t mean having a single leader.
Mattress Mick is one of the sleepers in the leadership
http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan-o-toole-irish-banks-have-got-away-with-major-fraud-1.2923644
Fintan O’Toole has a good piece in the IT about the 100 or so families made homeless from the banks scamming them out of their tracker mortgages.
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+1
I fully support this. Actions speak lowder than words.
whats with the sarky cartoon at the end? it implies they don’t know what they’re doing at HSH, yet they’ve accomplished what the gov. could or would not.
sorry, wasnt meant to be commented on ur comment, was meant for the general area
Noonan has no commercial role in Nama. He will tell you that himself.
Separation of power etc.
“Under the IBRC Act, the Minister for Finance may issue directions to the Agency and these are published in Iris Oifigiúil, the official State gazette. Directions issued to date are listed below…”
https://www.nama.ie/about-us/governance/legislation/
I’d say HSH were disappointed with the turnout. The proportion of journalists to protesters was very high! Slow news day?
The same kind of rhetoric was used for the Water Protests. How did that work out Oh Scary One?
The main stream media (translation: Irish Times with its 80K print circulation) have gone out of their way to denigrate the Apollo House and HSH movement’s actions. Step forward cheerleaders for landlords and developers, the aul wan of Tara Street.
How about this for IT weasel wording and twisting of opinion on the issue:
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/apollo-house-hugely-inspiring-says-joseph-o-connor-1.2924209?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
“The author goes on to request that the Government refrain from lecturing the Irish people on the importance of 1916 – ”
Except he (Joseph O’Connor) did NOT request it of the Government. Read his letter. He aimed it at the Irish media and their friends. To wit:
“It wasn’t very popular with a lot of the Irish media, face-saving politicians and other authorities at the time, of course.”
Saturday would have been a better day.
Will Carrie and her vocal friends be candidates in some election or other?
isn’t it nice that all those people could get a day off work with such short notice.
It’s the same rent a crowd as turned out for water protest, repeal the eight and anything else that’s fashionable at that point in time.
I don’t think that is true…
Me neither.
I think probably its a load of people who feel strongly about the issue and feel that some sort of public demonstration is warranted.
What? Transition Year students?