Last month, Dublin Rental Investigator – whose Twitter account will be a year old next week – reported the property at 35 Bunting Road in Walkinstown, Dublin 12, to Dublin City Council, Dublin Fire Brigade and the Property Services Regulatory Authority.

The property, which is comprised of nine self-contained units, was being sold by Gillespie Lowe and presented as an “excellent opportunity” .

Advertised on Daft.ie, the company said it offers an income of more than €70,000 a year.

Dublin Rental Investigator pointed out to the council, fire brigade and PSRA that the property has a make-shift structure built behind the property and that they could not find any record of planning permission for a conversion to flats or otherwise.

They also highlighted “a real fire safety concern”.

Dublin Rental Investigator has since tweeted a response from Dublin City Council (above).

They added:

Frustrating news regarding the 35 Bunting Road Property. Dublin City Council states it’s over 7 years old so there’s nothing they can do. The amount of tenants that lived in those conditions.

I urge anyone who sees someone renting a structure that doesn’t have planning permission to report it as a matter of urgency as once the structure is in place for 7 years Dublin City Council are barred from taking action.

Previously: Cry To Let

Newly elected Green Party Dublin City Councillor Hazel Chu tweetz:

Me – Hey mum, I got my card today. I’ll start officially tomorrow.

Mum – That card doesn’t say Taoiseach. You should work harder next time.

#TigerMums #WantGreenVotedGreen

Previously: Posters In Front Of People

From top: The late Sylva Tukula; Cameron Keighron

“We still have a lot of questions and a lot of answers that we need to find out and we’re hoping that over the next couple of days, or weeks, that we’ll get those answers.

“…How systems like these are put in place and how groups and relevant persons fall through the cracks?

“No one should have to go through what we went through.

“No one should ever have to feel live we’ve felt over the last couple of days and to know that someone that they were so close to was buried by themselves without any sort of appropriate arrangement, and without anyone present, to mark the end of their life and to celebrate it…

“We’re calling for an investigation into these systems and to ensure that the failures that happened this time aren’t repeated and that provisions are put in place to protect the dignity of people, irrespective of their status in this country.”

Cameron Keighron, chairperson of the Amach LGBT charity in Galway, speaking on RTÉ One’s Morning Ireland this morning about the late Sylva Tukula.

Sylva, from Cameroon and who identified as a transwoman, was living in the men-only Great Western House Direct Provision centre in Galway when she died last August.

She was subsequently buried unbeknownst to her friends on May 9 in a HSE-owned plot at the Bohermore cemetery – despite her friends being told they would be informed of her burial arrangements.

Listen back in full here

Yesterday: ‘We Have Still Yet To Know The Actual Cause Of Death’

Buried Alone


From top: Anthony Bourdain in The Gravedigger’s Pub in 2013; The Bourdain ‘crawl’

Dublin By Pub writes:

We wanted to remember Anthony Bourdain on the occasion of the first anniversary of his passing (tomorrow) – so we compiled a pub crawl encompassing all the pubs he visits and mentions in the Dublin edition of The Layover….

Anthony Bourdain’s Pub Crawl (DublinByPub)

Previously: Bourdain In Dublin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN5fE4iTSWg&feature=youtu.be

VINCI – When We Go Out

The video (above) for When We Go Out’, by Irish band VINCI, features Aidan Gillen.

VINCI met the actor when he was honoured earlier this year at the US-Ireland Alliance’s annual Oscar Wilde Awards at J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot in Santa Monica. VINCI performed at the event.

While in LA, they noticed that the serious homeless crisis there shared many similarities with the crisis in Dublin and they wanted to “shed more light, not only on the crisis, but on perceptions of the homeless”.

VINCI

Theresa Rave.

‘Just squeeze her hand to get raving!’

The second toy designed by Ireland-based Give A Giggle, which sold almost 10,000 teddy bears of President Higgins last Christmas.

Dara O’Neill at Give A Giggle writes:

With the Prime Minister set to resign, or so she says, the most successful policy of her tenure has been commemorated. Her policy to boogie.

Theresa Rave, a collectible – and, yes, slightly weird – doll, sings and dances at the press of her hand, and is available to order [at link below]

The cuddly Theresa is priced at £25. For every sale, 5% of revenue will be donated to the NHS. That’s a NHS cash promise that will be kept….

Theresa Rave

‘Recently, both Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin have had quite remarkable Bills pass through stages in the legislative process.

Among other things they will restrict the sale of residential mortgages to “vulture funds”. If any of these many Bills became law, there could be profoundly negative consequences for the system in general.

At a very minimum the ordinary economy would be more severely restricted from accessing credit. Any competition in the market would run a mile and existing banks would be damaged in important ways.

Given that Irish borrowers are already so well protected, the actual intent of these proposed laws seems to have little to do with protecting those in financial distress and everything to do with being seen to have grabbed a pitchfork…’

Ross Maguire, of personal insolvency group, New Beginnings.

Bank bashing has gone too far in Ireland (Ross Maguire, Irish Times)

Meanwhile…

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