Why doesn’t the gov introduce rental limits. Eg. €500 for 1 bedroom, €800 for 2 and €1200 for 3. Number of bedrooms should be based on sq mtres. And every home or apt should have a minimum B2 BER rating. Let’s have some fairness for tenants. #renting
Today’s Irish times is such a roller coaster of emotions. I’m going from lolling at Miriam Lord’s piss-take of this year’s cohort of politicians to being in bits over the horrendous attack on an Indian man in Tallaght this week.
The outline of his vertrebral column, his shoulder blades and his rib cage protrude under his dry paper skin”.
And her comparison between the language of world leaders with Orwellian language, makes so much sense. @jenoconnell
In a café in floods of tears reading @jenoconnell ‘s column today about the horror in Gaza and denial of it by world leaders. Describing the photo of the child on the front page of last Wednesday’s Irish times “instead of a nappy he is wearing a bin liner…
Half in Ireland build huge houses with gardens on acres of land. It’s like a nightmare. How could targeting the already poor be the answer? Make this stop! #housingcrisis
Governments latest idea to solve the housing crisis is to make small studio apartments even smaller, from 37m2 down to 32m2 with fewer windows. Ireland is taking its lead from the dark days of communism in Eastern Europe when ppl lived in shoeboxes. Except meanwhile the other
@maggsbrowne104 @eolanryngsf @dlLambo Depends on the type of interview. This interview was about getting an answer. He wouldn’t answer the question so she had to insist.
€11 is not bad value cos it was filling and delicious. But the bare, too-big plate makes it look like bad value.
A shame not to present it better given the effort that went in to making it. The psychology of it. Donegal café, won’t say which. #firstworldproblems
Big earrings are alright ‘til ye have to take a phone call. I was cooking so had to do old ear to shoulder. Painful, had to take one out. #sillybants#earrings