923 hearts for 923 beautiful souls NO BUILDING OVER BESSBOROUGH National Rally tomorrow Saturday 2.30pm Grand Parade, Cork #Speirghorm

If you missed us during Cork Midsummer Festival Now's your chance to experience WalkTalkChalk The only derelict walking tour of Cork's Historic Core Book Now ffud.art 18th July or 19th September #DerelictIreland #speirghorm

Want to see Cork city with new eyes Join our Derelict Cork Walking Tour Book your space now on ffud.art SATURDAY 18th July 11am - 12.30 €20 per person #DerelictCork #DERELICTIRELAND #walkingtour ##purecork ##spéirghorm

Not great at sharing personal stuff, so thought we'd share what it's like being a 'successful' housing activist in our biweekly Housing Essay for The Journal 🔗👇 Last 6 yrs of #DerelictIreland has been a rollercoaster Frustrating Uplifting Isolating Rewarding Humbling #Speirgorm

6 yrs ago today we shared this derelict building We repeated this across 2km of Cork city A daily dose of dereliction for 1yr Thousands of others all over Ireland did the same under #DerelictIreland Together we've changed culture, practice, policy & protest People power does work #spéirgorm

"The tweet that got the nation talking" 6 years ago today This is #DerelictIreland #spéirgorm

In less than 12 hours the rubble was removed after being there for nearly a year #DerelictCork #DerelictIreland ##Spéirgorm

"The question now is how to move this to the top of the policy agenda, stopping years of procrastination and resistance to produce a comprehensive and successful national registration system for housing." Read our latest analysis in The Journal 🔗👇 #Speirgorm

"'In terms of policy' @frankoconnor.bsky.social said 'we knew we could change things. We really felt we could.'" It was great to help RTE Prime Time investigate derelict sites owned by state bodies housing charities & religious organisation #derelictireland #Spéirgorm #EveryoneShouldHaveAHome

Vacant Home Tax was designed to fail Vacant Home Grant was designed to reward hoarding & speculation Fixes aren't that radical, but it would bring a glimpse of transparency, some responsibility & a speckly of equality to land ownership, so it' ll be fought at every step #DerelictIreland #Speirgorm

After 36 yrs @kerrycoco.ie are still making mistakes enforcing the Derelict Sites Act Their "various inaccuracies in the files” have cost us all They've thrown away €655,000 & wasted staffs' time How will they ensure these mistakes won't be made again? #Speirgorm #DerelictIreland

No surprise The man who told us he can't do anything about dereliction because owners come crying to him when properties are publicly registered & who said “Any normal person, like you or me, to be landed in this on top of your daily life, it’s a tall order.” Is same man who👇

Buildings collapsed in Cork 1999 Buildings collapsed in Cork 2009 Buildings collapsed in Cork 2019

Ever wonder why the Vacant Home Tax was designed to fail Because those making the rules never wanted it to succeed Tax all second homes NOW This is #VacantIreland the Gateway to #DerelictIreland

Delighted to gift one of our hand painted T-shirts to Martin Leahy to mark his 200th week singing Everyone Should Have A Home Everyone means Everyone Martin has been a massive inspiration for all of us #everyoneshouldhaveahome #derelictireland #housingcrisis #protestart #spéirgorm

Here's another reason to ban the proliferation of vape shops Sad to see Glasgow’s 1851 iconic train station destroyed by cheap battery products that are dangerous at every stage of their lifecycle. From those who mine raw materials to those who vape #BloodBatteries #BanVapes #Speirgorm

Ireland won't be the 1st country to meet its quota but we can't let Italy beat us Only 2,450 more signatures needed 📍 SIGN NOW 📝 Demand the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement in view of Israel’s violations of human rights #spéirgorm eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...

Today SF wants to amend Derelict Sites Act 1990 Here I discuss scandalous delay to the new Derelict Property Tax at a recent Oireachtas legislative committee hearing where @frankoconnor.bsky.social & I were invited as expert witnesses #DerelictIreland #Speirgorm

4.2m beds offered to tourist 45k potential homes* used as hotels These empty homes won't appear on @GeoDirectory_ie or @ESBNetworks vacant homes data even though 96% of them lie empty this month #VacantIreland #DerelictIreland #everyoneshouldhaveahome #spéirgorm *If average homes is 3 bed

I'll be speaking live on The Last Word with @mattcooperlastword.bsky.social Tune in today @ 5.20pm @todayfm.bsky.social I'll be disussing the proposed caps on the Vacant/Derelict Homes Grants #VacantIreland #DerelictIreland #Speirgorm

Netherlands announce a new Vacant Home Tax 64k empty empty homes for 1 yr 0.7% of their housing stock Compared to Ireland who has 72k-80k empty 3.3%-3.7% of Irish homes #VacantIreland the gateway to #DerelictIreland

Wasn't aware of those rules in Switzerland, such a logical approach. Thanks for sharing @mousketeer.bsky.social

We need to talk about HOLIDAY HOMES If you already own a home, should you be allowed to buy a spare one? The Dutch don't think so New laws require buyers to obtain permits to buy a 2nd home, while existing owners will be given 1 year amnesty #DerelictIreland #speirgorm #EveryoneShouldHaveAHome

“The only green space and park in the city centre is no longer a green space or park. Seriously, how did this cost €7m?" Me & @frankoconnor.bsky.social were interviewed by Amy Cambell on our thoughts of the destruction of Bishop Lucey Park @echolive.bsky.social #RestPlayWork #PureCork #Speirgorm

This is what the iconic #DerelictIreland home looks like when it sold in 2002 and what it looks like inside #Speirgorm

These are owned by UCC & featured in our 'This is Derelict Ireland' report Intially bought by DairyGold who got a 13.3% return on their investment (aka speculation) UCC bought this site in 2019 for €17.25m & now don't have money to do anything but won't sell them either #DerelictIreland #Speirgorm

I'm old enough to remember when criticising the EU was framed as unacceptable Or is it only good to blame the EU when you're scapegoating your own failures #HowIrelandWorks #spéirgorm #everyoneshouldhaveahome

Frank's now chasing the end of the rainbow Will we find a pot of gold Or just another excuse for letting #DerelictIreland fester another decade or 2 #spéirghorm

Is Heather Humpthreys using her two spare homes to store boxes? While theres 1000+ people on Housing Waiting List & only 21 homes to rent in whole of Co. Cavan (none in Cootehill) 14.1% of homes in Cavan are empty 11.8% of Cootehill homes are empty #DerelictIreland #Aras25 #Speirgorm

In 2023 Heather Humphreys owned 2 empty homes in Cootehill, Co Cavan 4 Qs for @hhumphreysfg.bsky.social 1. Are these homes still empty? 2. Did u tell Revenue & pay Vacant Homes Tax? 3. Do you pay LPT? 4. How long were homes kept empty? #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland #Speirgorm #Aras25