Delighted to announce that we will be launching http://t.co/I3GVZWRNOJ in October! Incredibly excited about the next stage of our journey!
— Niall McGarry (@MrNiallMcGarry) August 6, 2014
Splutter.
Cash-bathed, Irish gentleman’s website Joe.ie advances toward England.
Over to you Harbo.
We’re definitely doing something wrong.
*reaches for ‘Cool Ranch’ Doritos*
And a bit of jam.
Kevin Yourell writes:
I’m putting together / running an event for comic book creators in a few weeks called ComicJam48 Dublin.
The goal is to establish an great event that can be replicated by other organisers in other communities around the world. Similar to the StartupWeekend.org movement that has been growing in the tech community over the last 4 years.
The idea for ComicJam48 came, like a lot of great ideas, out of a conversation over a few pints. We though it would be cool if there was a weekend event where people who love creating comics can get together in a really great location, Generator Hostel in Smithfield on the 6th & 7th of September, where we will feed and water attendees to keep them at their creative best, plus there will be limited edition T-shirts and a printed copy of the Anthology of all the projects created at the event for each attendee. All this from €35 (Early-Bird) per person.
We are hoping for a good mix of experience and inexperience at this event. While we’re planning on having mentors on the day to offer advice and make sure everything runs smoothly, the real goal of this event is collaboration and for people to teach and learn from each other, to share ideas and ask questions.
Soofia Bano and daughter Hira Israr (top) at a 2013 Irish citizenship ceremony and Dr Antje Röder (above) of Trinity College, Dublin
The Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin, has published a controversial study called ‘New Irish Families: A profile of Second Generation Children and their Families’.
The report reveals that one-in-four children born in Ireland in 2012 had a non-Irish born mother.
And that there is now much greater diversity in terms of “religion, linguistic, and good looking genes ethnic and national background” among young families in Ireland than EVER before.
However…
Dr Antje Röder, the study’s principal investigator, writes:
“From our study so far it is clear that some groups of migrant parents experience socio-economic disadvantages that are likely to impact their children as they grow older. Another core issue is childcare: immigrant parents have less access to relative care, and many cannot afford other forms of childcare, leading to lower rates of return to work amongst migrant mothers. We cannot say yet to what extent this reflects different cultural preferences for the appropriate care of young children, but will continue to investigate this further as the study progresses.”
Pic: TCD
Oh.
DarDar writes:
“Checking in for return flight on the new #Ryanair app. Looks like I’ll be staying in Barcelona a while longer. Anyone tried their email address, is it bogus too?”
Be-hatted ladies competing for ‘best dressed lady’ sponsored by Blossom Hill at the Discover Ireland RDS Dublin Horse Show, Ballsbridge, Dublin this afternoon.
From top: Carol Kennelly (winner of Best Dressed Lady); Milner Philip Treacy and Joanne Murphy; Brid Hurley, Noirin Hurley and Celine Hurley; Orla Lee; Linda Vittone; Bronach O Neill; Georgina Kane; Martha Lynn; Lisa Crosbie; Danialle Gingell; Sarah McGahon and Muriel Barnwall.
G’wan Muriel.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
@BeardedGenius Check out this,spotted last night in Dublin, painted on cling film stretched between two street lamps. pic.twitter.com/Ud439kTM1z
— Jay Hester (@jayhester) August 7, 2014
Previously: Still Clinging On
Dr Kieran McQuinn who published a paper this morning for the ESRI, claiming houses could be undervalued up to anywhere between 12 and 27%
Yesterday, the ESRI published a paper called Projected Population Change and Housing Demand: A County Level Analysis by Edgar Morgenroth.
Reporting on the paper, yesterday’s Irish Times said:
From 2011 to 2021 an additional 180,000 households across the State will need somewhere to live. The current oversupply of houses in vacant or “ghost estates” will be able to accommodate about half that number, leaving a need for 90,000 houses or apartments to be built between 2011 and 2021, or an average of 12,500 each year.
Almost 60,000 houses needed in Dublin by 2021 (Irish Times)
Today, Dr Kieran McQuinn published his academic paper, entitled Bubble, Bubble Toil and Trouble? An Assessment of the Irish Housing Market for the ESRI.
On Dr McQuinn’s report, today’s Irish Times says:
The ESRI predicts real Irish house prices will grow by a further 8 per cent this year and by 9 per cent in 2015, before moderating to growth rates of 4.9 per cent and 3.9 per cent in 2016 and 2017. Population growth alone will require about 25,000 houses to be built annually, it said, whereas only 15,000 are projected to be built next year.
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The report’s author, Kieran McQuinn, dismissed any suggestion that the recent level of price growth constituted another bubble. He said the stock of mortgage credit is still falling while the level of transactions was still registering negative growth. But he did warn that a prolonged period of sustained price growth could turn it into a bubble.
ESRI says house prices 27% below real value (Irish Times)
Anyone?
H/T: Rob Kitchin
The creepy, evocative beauty of abandoned spaces captured by photographer Peter Untermaierhofer.
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