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DEPENDING ON WHO you ask, the government has either ruffled the feathers of certain birds or have been acting a bit bird-brained in recent days.
Stories of so-called cuckoo funds and vulture funds making life difficult for first-time buyers ignited renewed debate on Ireland’s housing crisis.
The government took action this week by enacting legislation to make it more difficult for them to operate - but opposition parties argue it doesn’t go far enough.
But maybe, just maybe, all the situation needed was a tongue-in-cheek quiz about vultures and cuckoos? Is that the solution to Ireland’s housing crisis? We’re about to find out.
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It’s a day for the high stool I think..
I just laid a high stool….now it’s a low stool!
Fluichy ar lá
Journal, what’s with the file photo? Can’t you people point your phone out of the window and take a picture of the actual storm effects?
The Jpurnal is based I Dublin and the worst of the storm is happening initially in the west of the country and they don’t have a camera with a two hundred mile zoom lens.
They don’t have windows because you don’t click their ads. :(
@DMcE talk about looking for something to complain about! Can you not picture a storm in your head or look out your own window?
Dam the cliffs are closed.
Drove on m50 slow down people
Today the council are out putting boiling tar into holes filled with water and throwing gravel on top.. its not going to stay .. why is this always done in the rain ???
What idiot council is doing that?
water conservation !
Have to spend the budget before the end of the year. Could do a bit of planning and fill the potholes earlier in the year
Don’t forget to turn the tap off when washing your teeth, its all about water conservation after all?.
Ugghh have to go to work in that. More of a day for the high stool
I don’t mean to poke holes but that headline picture looks alot like Toronto and their street cars in the background?
It’s alright ye all can go back out tuesday we have a meeting in Dublin to see we can we batten down storm austerity which has been raging for years
You’re some saucepan Derek… I really hope you get soaked today
And Tuesday
Cathal I wonder who pi$$ed on Derek’s cornflakes???
Cathal rather be a saucepan than a colander and have all drained out of me without trying to put a stop to it
Empty vessels make most noise
And the more noise the better
Did last sat not today though don’t like the same medicine over and over again like to try and do something about it
Some one spitting their dodie out …awhhhhhh. Did ya git out of your homeless sleeping bag on the wrong side this morning.. jockd ?? ,yellow to the front , brown to the back. Derek
Gem Larkin do not insult the name give it hack
Fcuk off Dessie!
A tarzans mate whether it rains or not Jane I’ll be there
Lol
We’re not in Kanas anymore Toto !
I was coming back home last night (well…. early morning… 3.00 am) with my Vespa…. I can tell I challenged several laws of physics driving my scooter around…. but was fun!
Went for a run then shopping, dinner and pints, you’re all wimps
Went t bring me dogs for walk ths mornin.the look on their faces.”No fkn way u gettn us out in that lad, p**ss off “
You can fly to Donegal?!
Haha see all hear all assummption making know damn all lackey
Meanwhile the government argues for an exemption from carbon emissions targets at the Paris conference. Didn’t someone tell these storms that we’re exempt? #denial
I was in Dublin yesterday & while it was raining up to 12 noon it cleared up good enough with some squally outbursts but nothing compared to what other counties got.. There was still a lot of dry intervals.. When i got back to cork last night it was bucketing again..
I drove from Dublin to athlone earlier today,to say it was an unpleasant experience is an understatement
Storm Desmond! Almost makes the bad weather sound kinda’ alright and that it’s even a bit of craic. Can’t wait to hear the future news about ‘Storm Jack Cruise’ and its ….Gaels of Laughter, Ha! .
Weather you wouldn’t even leave a ladder out in, I think?
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