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It sure ain’t! Onwards 💪🏼
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Thanks David. To be honest, I’ve come to expect it on the streets in recent years. Small incidents like these pale in comparison to what trans people face all the time, and the kind of bigotry expressed at anti-immigrant protests, which is horrific. You’re right RE: lack of ambition from gov.
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This is a useful conversation on the @irishtimes.com In The News podcast about homophobia and transphobia in contemporary Ireland.
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Great piece!
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Yeah, and I think it would do much more than provide new homes for people, because it could bring a lot of life to areas that are empty outside of working hours. Good for city life, local businesses, etc.
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Yes, they should absolutely be doing this. Any entity with office buildings that would be easier to convert to homes should be incentivised to move to contemporary offices, IMO. Especially those Georgian buildings, which were housing once upon a time!
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Yep, saw that. But ultimately I think the task is more with the LDA than councils.
Pretty much unviable to convert many of those contemporary buildings I've listed, but the sites could be used.
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It's extremely challenging to refurbish contemporary office blocks for housing, much easier with older blocks, but there are clearly great deals in some commercial property rn.
Given the need for housing in Dublin city centre, it's a pity that these sites apparently can't be redeveloped for homes.
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North Dock was priced at €155m in 2023.
Guide price last year was €130m.
Report here says a deal was done for €85m.
www.businesspost.ie/news/sale-of...
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The Infinity Building in Smithfield was sold in 2019 for €57m.
Guide price last November was €47.2m.
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No 2 Dublin Landings was sold in 2018 for €106.5m.
Sale price in 2025 was €50m.
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One Spencer Dock was on the market for €265m in 2021.
Now for sale at €170m.
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The Beckett Building, leased by Meta, was bought in 2018 for €101m.
The asking price last May was €35m.
It went sale agreed a couple of weeks ago for €25m.
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Fair!
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Median age of Irish-born people living in Australia is 43, and two thirds are Australian citizens (as per their 2021 census, I don’t have more up to date data). So like so much emigration, the “I’ll just stay for a couple of years” doesn’t exactly pan out that way. (Lots of it does, obviously.)