Dublin From the bus stop in central Dublin until we reached the upstairs meeting space in the pub, we seemed to be on a tour of one housing struggle after another. We had our pictures taken by the inspirational statute of a famous labor leader on the main boulevard of Dublin. We had a …
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Galway Housing Support Group
Galway We woke up in a graveyard in Limerick in the shadow of a castle. Well, not actually in the graveyard, but along the church wall separating us from the graveyard maintained by the Limerick Civic Trust along with the church which had been in steady operation since the mid-500’s and renovated 200 years ago, …
Listening to Tenants in North Dublin and Limerick
Limerick Hitting the ground in Dublin, Nick Ballard, ACORN UK head organizer, and I jumped in the car with Tomas O’Loingsigh and Seamus Farrell, and we were on our way to visit with activists at the Darndale housing estate in North Dublin. The social housing complex numbered over 5000 units stretched over quite a piece …