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helendublin.bsky.social
Working class socialist, sociology, social policy, law ⚖️ Climate, housing, health, disability, animal, human rights #freesafelegal. Sweary 💅 loves tea 😵‍💫 Banner: a B&W pic at a concert. Laser lights. Profile pic: my face in B&W
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When a caller discloses that they have been in contact with gardaí, the organisation notes the proportion who report a positive response and those who felt there was a less supportive response www.independent.ie/irish-news/o...

When you see this reality & realise that all the gender critical ‘feminists’ are still obsessed with who goes into bathrooms - a myth that never has or will become reality …easier to ignore where violence against women is actually happening -in the home #speirgorm www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

I am Nour, a mother of two children. My daughter Julia is sick 💔 She is holding her doll among the rubble. She tells you💔☹️ I am dying of hunger😭 My brother who suffers from anemia is hungry😭 My family is hungry💔 We need $350 urgently Don't let us down.Send your love👇👇 chuffed.org/project/emer...

Funny how Hermann ‘anti choice’ Kelly is all ‘my body, my choice’ when it comes to organ donation and his ‘giblets’, and entirety the opposite when it’s comes to women’s rights over our bodies! Misogyny in so central to far right ideology #speirgorm

FFS, another disgusting move by the government who will do everything in their power to protect landlords & investors over the right to a home They continue to rip up the social contract so more children end up on streets while their cronies get richer #DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis

Check out our latest article on #DerelictIreland in The Journal 'Something is rotten in the Irish property industry' "Failure to address dereliction creates private wealth for a few and public squalor for everyone else." @frankoconnor.bsky.social www.thejournal.ie/readme/derel...

We need a government that puts renters before landlords, a government committed to ending homelessness, ensuring a roof over everyone’s head and giving young people hope again. We build that by organising a mass movement on housing. Yesterday was just the beginning. #RaiseTheRoof #SpéirGhorm

Assisted dying bill does 'not meet needs of patients', says Royal College of Psychiatrists

Surge in male victims reporting historical sexual offences to gardaí last year https://www.thejournal.ie/male-victims-reporting-historical-sexual-offences-6736297-Jun2025/

Government have absolutely failed people, it feels hopeless #housingcrisis #reits #landlords

Rents in a German social housing project have not increased since the Middle Ages - meaning residents pay just 88 cents a year to live there.

Seriously risking World War 3 as a distraction for Zionist genocidal land theft is about as Israeli as it gets.

Housing Protest Tuesday 6pm Dáil Organised by Raise The Roof @judesherry.bsky.social & I will be there Dereliction is a social crime stopping everyone having a home #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland

I cannot express the rage I feel at hearing more sympathy for Israelis experiencing one tenth of a single day of the over 600 days of genocide in Gaza or the slaughter in Lebanon than either of those groups have gotten from our leaders over the last two years.

www.972mag.com/gaza-social-...

“More smaller apartments & studios could be built under proposed new rules” .. so sub-standard housing for next 100 years for “investor viability” (not affordability)..& apartment developments redesigned & sent back to Planning, with all the ADDED COST & delay 🤦🏻‍♀️ www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Genocide happens when Israelis believe they're above the law, Holocaust scholar says - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/genocide-happens-when-israelis-believe-theyre-above-law

Testimony from US contractor: Snipers fire from what used to be a hospital. Bombs and bullets fly all day long in one direction – toward Palestinians. zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

New career 2025 ⚖️ 🥰 celebratory music commences Metallica - for whom the bell tolls 🩷

“This is.. financially efficient: build, sell, recycle the money, go again. You don’t need gazillions of international euro to build housing for sale” @irishtimes.com

The Starvation Experiment www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...

Loving the new solutions to the Housing Crisis The same as they ever were #RentControl #DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis #EveryoneShouldHaveAHome

An increase of over 1500 without a home in 12 months With new policy changes around rental theres only one way these numbers are going Up & up Manufactured housing scarcity by cruel government who favour property rights over those who need a home #DerelictIreland ffud with @judesherry.bsky.social

I love Ireland. These signs are everywhere

"Sentencing Barry today, Judge Martin Nolan said it was a “close run thing” but he had decided not to jail Barry. He said he made this decision to give Barry a chance due to mitigating factors, including his previous good record." verbally abusive, physical violence, exerted financial control

Here is @judesherry.bsky.social at Dáil outlining #DerelictIreland movement & solns incl legalised squatting, opening up vacant sites for Irish Travellers so they can choose to live nomadic life, compulsory sales/rental of empty homes, moratorium on office builds, mental health support for hoarders

📢Too many people are experiencing homelessness📢 With the homelessness figures being released tomorrow, SCI are calling for immediate action. Too many adults and too many children are being failed by inaction and policy decisions that ignore lived experience and proven solution.

Mothers Against Genocide statement on Gardaí and Minister for Justice attempts to discredit us. We will not be silenced or deterred from raising the issue of Government inaction on Palestine. #FreePalestine #RightToProtest

Officials warn of ‘uncertainty’ in housing completions outlook Hooke & MacDonald projecting 40,000 , Daft.ie 35-40,000 & 8 others 30,000-37,000 Central Bank, ESRI & Bank of Ireland 32-33,0000” ..house-builders are saying 25,000.. & they are the ones who know www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...

I know complaining about Katy Perry in “space” is low hanging fruit and there are much worse things happening in the world, but there’s just something so peak… shallow and smarmy… bread and circuses… about it that typifies everything wrong with a system that serves only the shallow and the rich

A pregnant woman was pulled alive from the rubble after an Israeli attack killed seven people, including her youngest daughter, her husband, and her mother in Jabalia, north Gaza.

#MusicChallenge #Musicsky #ArtistFave15 Black Sabbath 15. Symptom of the universe

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge #Musicsky Thin Lizzy 15. Killer on the loose

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge #Musicsky Depeche mode 15. Blasphemous Rumours

The mica scandal, health / welfare systems & govt policy on vulture funds. “Defective Concrete campaigner choked back tears as she told an international conference how vulture funds chased her friend for payments on a crumbling home as he lay dying from cancer” www.donegaldaily.com/2025/04/12/w...

Good read “Family spent eleven years living in converted workshed in Dublin back garden” jrnl.ie/6657078

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge #Musicsky Depeche mode 14. I feel loved

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge #Musicsky Thin Lizzy 14. She knows

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge #Musicsky Black Sabbath 14. Sabbra Cadabra

Solidarity is beautiful ❤️ Cork City Ireland now

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge #Musicsky Black Sabbath 13. Sabbath bloody Sabbath

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge #Musicsky Thin Lizzy 13. Dancing in the moonlight

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge #Musicsky Depeche mode 13. A question of time

These homes were boarded up when @judesherry.bsky.social & I moved to Cork City from Amsterdam in 2018 7 years later they are still boarded up In Amsterdam they have a policy that all homes can only be vacant for 1 year before compulsory rental Its time for that policy here #DerelictIreland

Had to stop myself from online shopping too much.. bank account dwindling as I lay in bed. Retail therapy 🥲