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From Simon Communities of Ireland’s 2018 annual report (click to enlarge)

Today.

Simon Communities of Ireland is launching its 15-page annual report for 2018.

It found there was a 26% increase in number of people turning to the group’s services throughout Ireland in 2018 – 16,776 up from 13,304 in 2017.

It follows the Department of Housing releasing the latest homeless figures on Tuesday evening which show there a record high of 10,514 people (6,688 adults and 3,826 children) were living in emergency accommodation in the final week of October.

Read the report in full here

Previously: 10,514 But Confidence Remains

Update:

This morning.

Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin 2.

CEO of Galway Simon Community Karen Golden with National Spokesperson for the Simon Communities, Wayne Stanley, speaking at the launch of the Simon Communities of Ireland launch Annual Report.

Sam Boal/RollingNews

Yesterday.

Daft.ie released it’s latest rental report.

From the report:

“Rents now 31% higher than their 2008 peak.

“The average market rent nationwide has risen by 81% since bottoming out in late 2011 and, having exceeded its 2008 peak in 2016, is now 30.8% above the previous high.

“In Dublin, rents are now an average of 37% above their previous peak while in Cork and Galway cities, rents are 30% and 47% above levels recorded a little over a decade ago.

“Outside the cities, the average rent is 22% above its previous peak.”

In the report, Ronan Lyons writes:

“…we are still discussing substantial price increases, even if in percentage terms the increases in key markets have fallen below a noteworthy threshold.

The average Dublin rent rose by €160 during 2018, compared to €180 in 2017. It is unlikely that any new or existing tenants will be celebrating just because the new all-time high is less dramatically above the previous high than it was compared to the figure from two years ago.

“Indeed, one possible reason for the slowdown in inflation could be that the market has reached the limits of what tenants can pay. Digging beneath the figures, though, another reason suggests itself: improved supply. If true, this could indicate that the mild improvement in market conditions in Ireland’s rental market may continue.

“On January 1st 2019, there were 3,641 properties available to rent nationwide, an increase of over 11% on the same date in 2018, when there were just 3,270 homes on the market.

“As shown in the graph accompanying this piece, (above) this is still the second lowest start-of-year total on record, going back to 2006. It is also below the 2016 and 2017 totals (both just below 3,900) and well below the previous market crunch in 2006/2007 when there were just under 5,000 homes available to rent.

“But an improvement is still an improvement, even if it is off a very low base. When availability improves, it is either due to a fall in demand or an increase in supply. Obviously, with Brexit looming, a fall-off in demand cannot be ruled out. However, that seems at odds with the evidence: employment and incomes are, at least at the moment, still going up.

“So, at a time of apparently strong rental demand, especially in the Dublin market, there are some signs that availability is improving and inflation easing, however slightly. A further possibility presents itself. It is possible that the numbers are something of an aberration ‐ one swallow does not a summer make.

Read Daft’s Rental Price Report for the fourth quarter of 2018 in full here

This Christmas.

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Damn jazzers.

Guinness Cork Jazz Festival (2018)

Related: In Pictures: ‘Day of the Dead’ parade opens Cork Jazz Festival (The Irish Examiner)

This morning.

Students, including Sophie Gibbons from University College Dublin (top), prepare for the Raise The Roof protest taking place outside Leinster House today over the housing and accommodation crisis.

The protest will take place from 12.30pm until 2pm.

Raise The Roof

Previously: All Rise

Leah Farrell/Rollingnews

UPDATE:

Sinn Féin TD John Brady tweetz:

So Leinster House is under lockdown as the people mobilise to demand government action on housing & homelessness.

This morning.

Storm Ali caused damage at the Ploughing Championships in Screggan, Tullamore, Co Offaly.

Organisers are assessing the damage to the site and, as of 10.30am, they said the event will open at 12 noon.

UPDATE:

Meanwhile…

Yikes.

Storm Ali: 140,000 without power as strong winds cancel flights and ferry crossings (Breakingnews.ie)

Earlier: Meanwhile, In Cuffe Street

Pics: Sam Boal/Rollingnews

UPDATE:

Eeek!

This morning.

Scenes from the National Ploughing Championships in Screggan, Tullamore, Co Offaly.

Visitors include Ava Murphy, ten, and Lucy Murphy, 11, from Athy Co Galway (fourth pic) and Eugene Barrett, above.

WATCH: Conditions ‘slightly slushy’ as National Ploughing 2018 gets underway (Offaly Express)

Sam Boal/Rollingnews

Yesterday.

Outside Croke Park in Dublin.

The People of Croke Park photographed fans making their way to the stadium for the Ladies’ (as distinct from the ‘Gentlemen’s) All-Ireland Football finals, for which a record 50,141 spectators turned out.

Dublin took the senior title over Cork with a  score of 3-11 to 1-12, while Limerick beat Louth for the junior title, with a score of 5-06, 0-08.

Tyrone beat Meath 6-08, 1-14 for the intermediate title.

As yet, the GAA has no plans to host a Women’s All-Ireland Football final.

Just a Ladies’ one.

For Ladies, as opposed to Gentlemen.

Dublin make history with back-to-back All-Irelands (RTE)

Record Attendance Yet Again As Croke Park Hosts Ladies Football Finals (Balls.ie)

Pics: The People of Croke Park