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Barker family and a hidden camera in a Cork property they rented via Airbnb

On Monday.

Nealie Barker, from New Zealand, who was visiting Cork with her husband and five children, wrote on Facebook:

We are avid Airbnb users. We love the platform.

We just found a camera hidden in a smoke alarm case in the private living room of a listing. We were travelling with children.

The host admitted to the concealed camera over the phone, only after presented with our irrefutable proof.

The Airbnb safety team investigated our complaint (we provided photos and snapshot of video feed). Their “thorough” investigation which didn’t include any follow-up with us exonerated the host, no explanation provided.

The listing (with hidden camera not mentioned) is still on Airbnb.

The host is now claiming our accusation is false on the public platform.

Guest safety is not an Airbnb priority!

After this post on Facebook, the Barker family were offered a refund and Airbnb said it would reinvestigate the matter.

The host has since been permanently removed by Airbnb from its listings.

In a statement to The Irish Times, Airbnb said:

“The safety and privacy of our community – both online and offline – is our priority. Airbnb policies strictly prohibit hidden cameras in listings and we take reports of any violations extremely seriously.

“There have been more than 500 million guest arrivals in Airbnb listings to date and negative incidents are incredibly rare.”

Family found hidden live cam in Airbnb in Cork after trying to connect to wifi (The Irish Times)

Data Protection Commission investigating hidden camera in Airbnb property (The Irish Examiner)

Adjacent to Kent Railway Station, the Horgan’s Quay project will not only create an entirely new Cork streetscape and river-fronted pedestrian plaza but aims to help kick-start the €1bn redevelopment of the city’s sprawling docklands.

The Horgan’s Quay development in Cork by Clarendon and BAM has been described as a “game changer” for the manner in which it restored and integrated railway buildings dating from the 1850s into a lavish modern project featuring office space for 5,000 workers, a 136-bedroom hotel and 237 apartments

Railway heritage helps put Horgan’s Quay on track in €160m city build (Independent.ie)

Living in Cork?

Anyone else hearing the Windows 7 startup sound every night in the city?

At exactly 12.01am every night, the Windows 7 startup sound is ringing out across the city.

Have a listen out your window tonight you’ll hear it. People have heard it from Frankfield to Blackrock….

Anyone?

Corkonians Being Kept Up At Night By Windows Start Sound (Spin)

Meanwhile..

This morning.

On Cork’s 98FM.

PJ Coogan spoke to callers about what could be the cause of the Windows 7 Bootup Sound.

Listen

Yikes.

Meanwhile…

Across the water…

Damn jazzers.

Guinness Cork Jazz Festival (2018)

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

This morning.

Alan Healy, in the Evening Echo, in Cork, reports that a man and a woman were separately convicted for animal welfare offences last week.

The woman was fined €100, while the man was fined €200 and ordered to give the ISPCA an additional €200.

Mr Healy reported:

On January 17, ISPCA Inspector Lisa O’Donovan visited the woman’s property in response to a call to the ISPCA Helpline.

She seized a collie pup, approximately five months old, tied to an oil tank with no shelter [pictured above]…A vet later described the pup as “severely underweight”.

Two Cork people convicted in animal welfare cases (Evening Echo)

In Cork.

This afternoon.

President Michael D Higgins responds to journalists asking him about the homeless crisis.

Earlier: Ship Happens

Thanks John