Homeless charity Focus Ireland is preparing to step in and pay a ‘materially higher’ price for 16 houses even though Limerick Council signed a contract for the homes last year for a lower price.
The council claimed not doing so would result in an unfinished ghost estate, “with no plans for construction nor any delivery of social housing units in the short to medium term”
ghost estates, remember them?
Rob_G
The biggest scandal here is that housing charities are outbidding FTBs on brand new houses.
galaxiapolizia
today is a new day…! today is a beautiful day…! When perhaps
tolerance, peace and sweet harmony breaks-out & flowers-up, all over…
Bodger’s beloved Broadsheet…?!? Your Broadsheet…! Voila!
Please don’t write another series of Kin the people have suffered enough. Love hate with beards, and less plot, and more whispering
goldenbrown
+1
it’s dire stylized “content”
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
I’m with you
Redundant Proofreaders Society
+1
Given up on it.
Gave up on Normal People early on too.
This style of suffering and melancholic one-dimensional characters sometimes works, but it’s nowhere near the BBC/CH4 standards in its delivery.
‘In a year of both extreme heat and extreme drought, California has reported its driest water year in terms of precipitation in a century, and experts fear the coming 12 months could be even worse.’
Mr.T
In fairness, California does it to itself.
Growing soy beans, almonds and avocados in such a dry place, wasting what little water they have on some of the water hungriest, luxury foods.
Nigel
Legendarily poor and corrupt water management meets ever-intensifying droughts. Another social, economic and environmental disaster in the making.
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
they should stick to wine
Birdie
Another season for Kin is actually a big surprise to me. I’d give it a 4 out of 10. Dialogue is pretty poor, so forced and at times mundane. And the camera direction is suited to a man arty music video not this. Also… it would be nice if RTÉ grew a pair and stopped peddling this gangster narrative that is so overdone and in poor taste. I’m sure there are more original tv series ideas out there that don’t revolve around violence. Look at Succession, or Billions. I mean Ireland seems a ripe destination for a white collar drama. I’m sure there are amazing scripts out there but alas it’s all about who you know in the arts world here.
Anyhow as I said at the start, I’m very surprised it’s getting another season… more dark moody Dubliners doing drugs… whoop whoop.
Seeing the wood for the trees — why our Sitka planting policy needs the chop
We’ve got so little of our ancient forests, like Beara’s Uragh Wood, left in this country, probably less than 0.25%, many are insisting it’s time we see the light and deliver a root and branch reform of the State approach to biodiversity
Mr.T
One thing you and I can agree on – Sitka plantations are an abomination. Their use should be extremely restricted and solely for quick timber – maybe if every sitka plantation required a native deciduous plantation of a certain size also we’d see some movement toward reforestation.
Nigel
No, I think there should never, ever be a single sitka spruce planted in this country ever again. The damage they’ve inflicted is colossal.
Fergalito
+1
Plant native trees, recreate native woodlands and forests.
Thanks for the recommendation, a fairly interesting read.
Though similar to some of the other climate stuff you post or refer to its not the cheeriest or most hopeful subject matter.
Cian
Coilte are working on this.
Dublin: Through the Dublin Mountains Makeover, an area of over 900 hectares across nine Coillte forests will transition away from the clearfell and replanting cycle towards a different model. Multi-generational forests managed under ‘Continuous Cover Forestry’ (CCF) principles will maintain their green canopy on a permanent basis, and in areas where this isn’t possible, non-native Sitka spruce and lodgepole pine trees will be removed and replanted with native species such as Scots pine, birch, rowan, oak, holly and willow to provide habitat for nature and bring autumn colours to the hills.
in the west: The Wild Western Peatlands project will see Coillte Nature restore and rehabilitate approximately 2,100 hectares of Atlantic blanket bog and wet heath that is currently planted with commercial spruce and pine forests. https://www.coillte.ie/coillte-nature/ourprojects/
taxi for Nigel…!
plans for nigel… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-X3Wy-svIY
+ 1
+ ein fur der Nigel… & his legion of lyrical interlocutors:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKTl1XScwd0
lol
:-)
brilliant song, great video, amazing band!
Yea I was thinking surely someone is making plans to try to address this issue
Worked as a draughtsperson in the UK for a Town Planner named Nigel. That song was our morning mantra.
Did the Star Headline writer take a nixxer at The Sun?
So, banning trolls, naming cities etc.
https://www.broadsheet.ie/contact/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1S7egZ1WIvc
Billy Connolly. About Nigel.
LOL just how fupped up is this….what say you sausagefingers?
“Charity pays more for 16 homes than council deal with builder”
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/charity-pays-more-for-16-homes-than-council-deal-with-builder-40961870.html
Homeless charity Focus Ireland is preparing to step in and pay a ‘materially higher’ price for 16 houses even though Limerick Council signed a contract for the homes last year for a lower price.
The council claimed not doing so would result in an unfinished ghost estate, “with no plans for construction nor any delivery of social housing units in the short to medium term”
ghost estates, remember them?
The biggest scandal here is that housing charities are outbidding FTBs on brand new houses.
today is a new day…! today is a beautiful day…! When perhaps
tolerance, peace and sweet harmony breaks-out & flowers-up, all over…
Bodger’s beloved Broadsheet…?!? Your Broadsheet…! Voila!
Pourquoi pas…?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKTl1XScwd0
Nice to see the tories not let a good tragedy go to waste.
I imagine calling out the lies of the likes of bozo and priti awful will now constitute ‘trolling’.
Britains slide into a banana republic continues apace.
Please don’t write another series of Kin the people have suffered enough. Love hate with beards, and less plot, and more whispering
+1
it’s dire stylized “content”
I’m with you
+1
Given up on it.
Gave up on Normal People early on too.
This style of suffering and melancholic one-dimensional characters sometimes works, but it’s nowhere near the BBC/CH4 standards in its delivery.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-18/california-records-driest-year-in-a-century
‘In a year of both extreme heat and extreme drought, California has reported its driest water year in terms of precipitation in a century, and experts fear the coming 12 months could be even worse.’
In fairness, California does it to itself.
Growing soy beans, almonds and avocados in such a dry place, wasting what little water they have on some of the water hungriest, luxury foods.
Legendarily poor and corrupt water management meets ever-intensifying droughts. Another social, economic and environmental disaster in the making.
they should stick to wine
Another season for Kin is actually a big surprise to me. I’d give it a 4 out of 10. Dialogue is pretty poor, so forced and at times mundane. And the camera direction is suited to a man arty music video not this. Also… it would be nice if RTÉ grew a pair and stopped peddling this gangster narrative that is so overdone and in poor taste. I’m sure there are more original tv series ideas out there that don’t revolve around violence. Look at Succession, or Billions. I mean Ireland seems a ripe destination for a white collar drama. I’m sure there are amazing scripts out there but alas it’s all about who you know in the arts world here.
Anyhow as I said at the start, I’m very surprised it’s getting another season… more dark moody Dubliners doing drugs… whoop whoop.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlight/arid-40722030.html
Seeing the wood for the trees — why our Sitka planting policy needs the chop
We’ve got so little of our ancient forests, like Beara’s Uragh Wood, left in this country, probably less than 0.25%, many are insisting it’s time we see the light and deliver a root and branch reform of the State approach to biodiversity
One thing you and I can agree on – Sitka plantations are an abomination. Their use should be extremely restricted and solely for quick timber – maybe if every sitka plantation required a native deciduous plantation of a certain size also we’d see some movement toward reforestation.
No, I think there should never, ever be a single sitka spruce planted in this country ever again. The damage they’ve inflicted is colossal.
+1
Plant native trees, recreate native woodlands and forests.
Thanks for the recommendation, a fairly interesting read.
Though similar to some of the other climate stuff you post or refer to its not the cheeriest or most hopeful subject matter.
Coilte are working on this.
Dublin:
Through the Dublin Mountains Makeover, an area of over 900 hectares across nine Coillte forests will transition away from the clearfell and replanting cycle towards a different model. Multi-generational forests managed under ‘Continuous Cover Forestry’ (CCF) principles will maintain their green canopy on a permanent basis, and in areas where this isn’t possible, non-native Sitka spruce and lodgepole pine trees will be removed and replanted with native species such as Scots pine, birch, rowan, oak, holly and willow to provide habitat for nature and bring autumn colours to the hills.
in the west:
The Wild Western Peatlands project will see Coillte Nature restore and rehabilitate approximately 2,100 hectares of Atlantic blanket bog and wet heath that is currently planted with commercial spruce and pine forests.
https://www.coillte.ie/coillte-nature/ourprojects/
Man, Australia is going down the toilet.
https://youtu.be/dbD24YUEe84
christ you give a muppet in a uniform an inch they’ll take a mile
Bill Gates got a rough reception in London yesterday? Turned away from Downing Street by protestors?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bill+gates+lodon&atb=v285-1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iaf=publishedAfter%3Ad