The current total raised by crowdfunding for the Apollo House occupation.
Via the Irish Housing Network:
All donations will go directly towards the costs of running the current action, and any excess will go directly into a campaign that ends homelessness in Ireland
In fairness
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Fair play lads!
nice one!
Whos the actually head of this organisation. How do people know who’s actually using this money.
By the way im talking about home sweet home, not the housing network.
We can get you a score if that’s what your problem is
A score for what, are they playing sport?
it’s a new game
how many of ‘the poor’ can you drive over/throw insults at?
So whats that got to do with the original comment.
Everything
How so.
What’s this? A photo without Jim Sheridan in it?
blushirt shill
Sure the Charity Regulator will have everything under control.
They really should, if they were resourced and had teeth.
Why is the Charity Regulator accepting a salary if the resources are not there to do the job properly!
Because they would starve otherwise?
Why are YOU accepting a salary when there are poor people on the streets?!
Do they have a cost on running the current action (ie Apollo House). Would be a helpful metric to gauge the success or suitability of the campaign.
Has there been any independent verification on the number of homeless people residing in Apollo House?
No but the Irish Times is across the road and they haven’t verified it either. It’s too warm in the IT canteen for Kathy Sheridan to walk 500 metres. Have a few more mince pies Kath.
Think we all agreed yesterday that there was nothing wrong with her article. You might have missed it.
What about the mince pies? Were they also up to scratch according to your KPIs?
No, you missed out.
https://twitter.com/namawinelake/status/811562333080354816
Has anyone checked if the Irish Times offices on Tara Street (opp #ApolloHouse) are “suitable for human habitation”
Less than 50 meters.
A few questions….
Goal of €500,000… for what?
Is this money going to sit in account over Christmas when it should be put to use in the Christmas period?
Are Simon and Focus losing out?
Isn’t there a app you didn’t finish? Loser.
Top class Trump trolling there. Mourning Ireland has all the best words
Simon who?
‘an’ app
Good lad.
Merry Christmas you beautiful but angry soul.
The money is going towards your anger management issues – you need some angel healing
Yeah… spend money on faux religious claptrap like ‘angel healing’. Maybe spend it on improving your quips.
half a million quid seems a lot to keep a building going for a few weeks, a building with no electricity or water. so what are the expenses .. food, blankets, portable generator? .. give me the gig, i bet i can get it all done in under 100k easily.
Clampers- personally I give every month to Focus and I’ll ensure I give more this month, I’ve no problem with somebody asking where € goes, those who are genuinely interested in helping usually ask- we all want to see it used in the most efficient and effective way possible . Fair dues to their efforts, I don’t want to see people out on the streets- but I don’t see Apollo house as anything other than a PR campaign/ stopgap. Long-term solutions are needed including a real hard look at the many and varied causes of homelessness – and a real plan to tackle these issues, – what I do see the campaign doing is bringing this into the public consciousness again.
That said- on a late Luas home from work last night a member of their campaign got on and preached to all of us. Tbh it came across v v poorly- roaring at a group of people who are tired/ hungry/ have their own problems and worries generally doesn’t enamour the public.
I heart ya Lucy.
That last bit is very disheartening. That ‘preachy’ righteous attitude leveled at (random) swathes people didn’t work well in the US election… it won’t work well here either.
Why I asked the question is summed up in this simple tweet from Dearbhail McDonald – https://twitter.com/DearbhailDibs/status/811834268431355904
home sweet home have done more to catapult the homelessness issue to the mainstream in the last few weeks then any of the ‘professional charities’ have managed to do in the last couple of years.
Why I asked the question is summed up in this simple tweet from Dearbhail McDonald –
Seriously, you’re quoting one of DENIS O’BRIEN’S INM SHOWER and then whinge about preachy righteousness? You’re some boo-boo.
Good stuff!
“go directly into a campaign that ends homelessness in Ireland”
For the hiring of Jocky’s ferry to send the homeless out into the Irish Sea and drown them.
Drowning’s too good for them, Joe.
You, my dear, are on fire today. Don’t stop whatever you do.
I love this comment
this is also known as lebensunwert, thanks for your thoughts on the homeless
Where can I buy some of those t-shirts?
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/tds-wear-home-sweet-home-t-shirts-in-support-of-the-homeless-1.2908893
if you wait till january, the charity shops will be full of them.
“any excess will go directly into a campaign that ends homelessness”
How much would be excess? and it would go to exactly what campaign?
Judge said no more than 40 people, full board for 3 weeks.
High needs & its Christmas.
So for sake of argument €200 per person for food for week, for 3 weeks.
40 X 200 X 3 = €24,000.
Bedding, toiletries, fixtures & fitting e.g. kitchen. Labour is volunteered.
€20 Pennys sheets, Dunnes €35 duvets, mattresses have been donated.
€50 personal toiletries – shampoo, body wash, toothbrush etc (Dealz, €2 euro shops etc)
€105 *40 = €4,200 plus once off €3,000 kitchen and say same again for showers, water & general plumbing & heating, its cold.
24,000 food + €4,200 personal care +€3000 kitchen + €3,000 plumbing & heating.
Grand total €34,200, Let’s round it up to €50,000 because I’m sure there’s a ton of stuff I’ve left out.
Current donation total is €146,902, minus €50k = €96,902 excess
So who exactly is going to get €96K?
I don’t doubt the purity of the ideals behind this action, every penny is sincerely meant. Assuming everyone is law abiding and the action ends on 11-Jan, keep following the money.
http://www.charitiesregulatoryauthority.ie/en/cra/pages/CharitySearch
Not listed as a charity.
it’s a political donation. I don’t think the money will be used directly to feed/house the homeless, but will be used to organise ‘campaigns’ to end homelessness.
A savage indictment of the failure of every other housing campaign group so.
And on politics in general for having failed so many.
Ie. A few nice gala dinners in the Mansion House.
Champagne Socialism at its finest. Things are getting murkier and murkier by the day in Apollo House.
Citation needed
Brendan Ogle campaign fund
Maybe
they’re going to spend it all on drugs – what a stupid question
“So for sake of argument €200 per person for food for week”
So its fillet steak every day then yeah?
In a land notorious for its financial corruption, people still throw money at something with no regulations or accountability!
when was the last time you got a receipt from your heroin dealer? I can just see you there now – here mate give us a score but I want to claim the VAT back, can you give me your PPS number?
i meant can you give us a loan of your vat number bud
Sure they’re out in January anyway. What do they need the 500k for? That’ll be some Christmas party!
Champagne socialism
I don’t agree with you but I would like to see someone draw a picture of Glen Hansard wearing a Marx mask drinking a bottle of Bollinger.
Is this 500k to be spent on Frames records so people will still think Glenn Hansard is actually relevant?
McVerry the tosser is trying to get a shelter shut down. It shows the feudal nature of these charitable figures and its pathetic.
My only worry is that this will eat into the expected money that other charities rely on.
I read about this when the ice bucket challenge was going around, ALS charities raised a lot but others that relied on the regular stream of income from regular donations were noticing a drop off. It was an economists argument and an interesting read. A bit like the way a new product can often cannibalise sales of an existing product on the market and screw up things like supply chain and distribution.
I will try dig it out if anyone is interested, it’s time for sleep now.
That’ll buy a lot of heroin for all the junkies currently staying in apollo house. There’s a reason that there has been no pictures released of those staying in it. If people actually realised who was staying there were all junkies, they would not donate.
They have a right to privacy. Why should they be photographed in their new home. It’s not the public street.
Perhaps you would have no objection to society seeing you photographed in your own bedroom masturbating over a picture of France Fitzgerald.
Hi all
I bumped up this thread deliberately
I was semi supportive
Kinda
By keeping my mouth shout
Abd itkinda impinges on the day job
But yesterday I met 2 of the regular usuals
The usuals – phds, Talkers Activists Vincent Browne Radio Round Tables familiar voicers
And no strangers to BS
“Oh they’re all friends of ours… They’ve been planning this for nearly a year …..We’ll be calling in to say hi when we’re at the Palestine thing on O’Connell Bridge”
Peter McVerry is right to take action
Leave this to professionals
And don’t assume this is a solution to any homeless crisis or housing crisis
Its a photo op
And a lucrative gig
Suckers!