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Gardaí concerned for welfare of man missing from Clare for over a week

John McNally (56) was last seen on Friday 19 May in Shannon.

GARDAÍ ARE CONCERNED for the well being of a man missing for over a week from Shannon, Co Clare.

John McNally (56) was last seen on Friday 19 May in Shannon.

He is described as about 5-foot 5 inches in height, with a stocky build.

He has brown hair and blue eyes. It is not known what John was wearing at the time he went missing.

Gardaí and John’s family are concerned his wellbeing.

Anyone with any information on John’s whereabouts is asked to contact Shannon Garda Station on 061 365 900, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.

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    Mute Glen Quagmire
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    Apr 20th 2017, 1:34 PM

    House Irish before EU citizens. Imagine us asking for a sleeping bag nevermind a social home for life in another EU country? See those EU citizens getting housed on the RTE property doc??

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    Mute John O'Driscoll
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    Apr 20th 2017, 1:47 PM

    Irish single / separated / divorced males are the very last on the social housing list, and are if they are incredibly lucky offered flats in places like Bohola and Dromahair and other back of behinds. According to EU rules refugees from certain countries are the very top of said list.
    Single mothers with kids next and everyone else after but before single / divorced / separated Irish males. A corpse would get a place before them.

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    Mute cortisola
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    Apr 20th 2017, 1:50 PM

    @Glen Quagmire: Any info how many EU citizens buy a property in Ireland recently (percentage) ? And I don’t mean foreigner Property Funds as we all know their market share is about 25% already.

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    Mute Paudi Onail
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    Apr 20th 2017, 2:01 PM

    @John O’Driscoll: that’s exactly it John. People all over the country are sick of it and it only creates resentment, sure no wonder. If they’re playing an unequal game then the people they’re meant to serve won’t accept and have every right to complain. They’re liars, a friend of mine, male, queried DCC about allocations if a single woman comes before a single man on the list and if non nationals inc refugees are given priority over families waiting longer. “Oh no we don’t do that here, everyone is treated equally” that is just pure utter BS! Someone is pulling strings because all over Ireland so many people know families seeing houses given to people who are not waiting as long but all because of race. That in itself is either racism towards their own or some type of diversity agenda in allocations which they’re not saying.

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    Mute John O'Driscoll
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    Apr 20th 2017, 3:11 PM

    @Paudi Onail: Syria and Eritrea top of the list with other nationalities coming next and single mothers after them. Irish single males have to wait til the devil skates to work.

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    Mute Juan Venegas
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    Apr 20th 2017, 3:19 PM

    @Glen Quagmire: You clown, then EU countries can apply the same for the 1 million Irish living in the EU. What do you think that this is Luxembourg that we don’t migrate?

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    Mute ryan3939
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    Apr 20th 2017, 3:24 PM

    @Glen Quagmire: it simple change the emigration rules and stop a lot of the people who are coming here putting pressure on housing , schools and hospitals.

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    Mute Patrick J. O'Rourke
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    Apr 20th 2017, 4:36 PM

    Anyone who is offered accommodation in Dromahair is indeed very lucky. It’s one of the prettiest villages in Ireland with a vibrant community. I’ve even heard it referred to as the Dalkey of the Northwest. The only refugees we tend to see are musicians, artists and professional people sick of the sewer that is Dublin. If you want the back of behinds then think of somewhere else.

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    Mute Andy K
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    Apr 20th 2017, 6:00 PM

    @ryan3939: Yeah, lets stop the doctors, specialists, consultants, engineers, nurses and foreign companies from coming over here because ryan here is on the dole and rather than get educated to get a job he wants a free handout…..

    Honestly, Ireland would be hiring the likes of you for trained jobs if it werent for immigration, and if it werent for emigration there would be at least double the number of people living on this island.

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    Mute Gareth Cooney
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    Apr 20th 2017, 9:32 PM

    @John O’Driscoll:
    I would love to be offered a house in Bohola it might mean I could be a billionaire like all the rest of the locals who are big in London

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    Mute Glen Quagmire
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    Apr 20th 2017, 1:20 PM

    Social housing now PLEASE

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    Mute Paul
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    Apr 20th 2017, 1:25 PM

    @Glen Quagmire: provate housing only.

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    Mute John Kelly
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    Apr 20th 2017, 1:31 PM

    @Glen Quagmire: all types of housing, not just free houses.

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    Mute Glen Quagmire
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    Apr 20th 2017, 1:31 PM

    @Dilly Dong: HAP & Rent allowance are NOT proper social housing. FG & Labour introduced this insult to those needing housing. FF seem ok with this now & they will not get away with this at the next sooner than later election.

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    Apr 20th 2017, 1:32 PM

    More social housing equals more ghettos. We need to discourage the lower classes from resting on their laurels. Social housing should be for the most vulnerable in our society. Instead, it is used overwhelmingly by people who wouldn’t work a day in their lives.

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    Mute Glen Quagmire
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    Apr 20th 2017, 1:38 PM

    @George Orwell: There is and always has been a majority of people working who live in social housing

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    Mute cortisola
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    Apr 20th 2017, 1:41 PM

    @George Orwell: Send our “the lower classes” quickly to Canada before they adopt same immigration regulations Australia did !!!

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    Mute meatyslaps
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    Apr 20th 2017, 1:51 PM

    @George Orwell: “More social housing equals more ghettos.”

    It wouldn’t if developers were required to provide a certain percentage of new developments for social housing, instead of paying a fee to (i.e. bribe) the council to avoid it like they can do now.

    This would spread out the social housing all around the country, instead of only having it in certain areas.

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    Apr 20th 2017, 2:03 PM

    @Glen Quagmire: The state can build both social and private dwellings – on a site by site basis. There is no reason the state can not use its resources to build integrated developments that have both social housing retained by the state for rental social housing and private dwellings for sale – Sell off to the private sector well built well thought out developments that meet the requirements of the nation – profits go back in building additional developments –

    Expecting the private sector to meet the demands of a fast growing population by adding bureaucracy on to the build process is madness – Developers are not the right people to solve this problem our town planners and councils are

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    Mute Larissa Caroline Nikolaus
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    Apr 20th 2017, 2:23 PM

    @brian boru: You are right in saying that our town planners and councils should solve this problem, but do you seriously expect the current bunch to be up to the task?

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    Apr 20th 2017, 2:31 PM

    @Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: Yes – I would prefer to see a well thought out strategy instead of leaving it to the random nature of development that goes into private investment builds

    The state has the land, has the knowledge, has the resources, the finance, and the information on what housing is needed – instead we leave it to the same process that let us down before to build homes of back room deals and profiteering by cute whoors – Build the homes the country needs and do it right by building well built integrated housing developments and do it while making a profit on the sale of the private sector

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    Apr 20th 2017, 4:12 PM

    @meatyslaps: Why should someone who is paying €400k of a mortgage have to live beside someone who is living for free off the state?!?!?

    Wake up would ya….

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    Mute Fred Jensen
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    Apr 20th 2017, 1:40 PM

    Build taller in the city centre!!!

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    Apr 20th 2017, 1:44 PM

    @Fred Jensen: Why only in the city (Dublin I presume) centre ?

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    Apr 20th 2017, 4:26 PM

    @cortisola:

    Well a little thing called economics…it makes sense to build tall where land values are highest…as per every other country in the world. But anyone who wants to build higher outside city centre has my blessing.

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    Mute Glen Quagmire
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    Apr 20th 2017, 1:21 PM

    No more landlord welfare

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    Mute Fred Jensen
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    Apr 20th 2017, 1:41 PM

    @Glen Quagmire:

    No more free house with a garden just because you have two kids.

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    Apr 20th 2017, 1:43 PM

    @Fred Jensen: Having kinds surely is one of reasons we have housing problem. HAVE NO CHILDREN PEOPLE !!!

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    Mute Kal Ipers
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    Apr 20th 2017, 1:47 PM

    @Glen Quagmire: Considering they brought in legislation to force landlords to accept rent allowance why do you think it is welfare for them? When they reduced RA and landlords didn’t need to take the drop and put up their rent for new tenants. HAP requires landlords to reduce their rent so again how is this welfare? How about we expect the government to fund social welfare rather than trying to get private individuals to subsidise them?

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    Mute Glen Quagmire
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    Apr 20th 2017, 2:20 PM

    Find a landlord that will take HAP? Find a decent liveable home that available for HAP tenants in the competition for rent??

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    Apr 20th 2017, 3:13 PM

    @Glen Quagmire: You are talking out from both sides of your month on this. It is obviously not landlord welfare as they don’t need or want to rent to those on social welfare payments. If you aren’t happy with what is provided by the private sector nor the public housing then you don’t have an option other than buy your own.

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    Apr 20th 2017, 3:26 PM

    @Fred Jensen: agree and ship a lot of the foreigners back home

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    Mute Rachel
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    Apr 20th 2017, 2:08 PM

    People always say you’re lucky to have a roof over your head – in a developed country like Ireland, this should not be a literal saying.

    A delightful combination of young mothers popping out as many kids as they need to in order to get a free house and no accountability for those scamming the welfare system, landlords captialising on lack of supply and pushing rents up past Celtic Tiger levels, and a genuine failure by our government to address any of the housing issues whilst simultaneously dragging new business into Ireland and especially Dublin off the back of Brexit – the ordinary Joe Soap doesn’t even get a look in.

    We’re such a small country – the level of corruption is genuinely amazing. Really Irish that we can keep f*cking over our own working, tax-paying or otherwise socially contributing citizens over and over again but sure, that’s the way it is. Apathy and classicism will be the ruination of this country.

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    Mute Glen Quagmire
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    Apr 20th 2017, 1:43 PM

    Stop stigmatising areas & councils should buy build and restore social housing EVERYWHERE. Councils should have bought private houses in estates & rent them to the most needy & well behaved people on their lists which the majority are. They should build one off houses in the country for those it would suit like they did up until the crash.

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    Mute Dark Knight
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    Apr 20th 2017, 2:24 PM

    @Glen Quagmire: the problem with socialists is they think there is a bottomless pit of money available! Where do you think the money is going to come from?

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    Mute Glen Quagmire
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    Apr 20th 2017, 2:29 PM

    VULTURE FUNDS APPLE BONDHOLDERS & BANKS HAVE GOT & CONTINUE TO RECEIVE A BOTTOMLESS PIT OF WELFARE

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    Mute Dark Knight
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    Apr 20th 2017, 2:35 PM

    @Glen Quagmire: i actually doubt you understand what any of them mean

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    Apr 20th 2017, 2:50 PM

    @Dark Knight: What you should learn & understand is the rules of capitalism SHOULD have applied to these capitalist companies & THEIR PRIVATE DEBTS are NOT the Irish public’s debt

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    Apr 20th 2017, 3:34 PM

    @Glen Quagmire: ‘vulture’ funds have provided cash to the irish government at a time when nobody else was willing to! Apple were always going to appeal their fine, what sort of idiot would have accepted the cash and then for the ruling to be overturned, lose out every which way then. If the banks failed it would have been fatal and there would be a much worse homeless crisis! I have no idea why you dragged bondholders into this or what your issue is with them. I actually presume it’s just a buzzword you use and you have no idea what a bondholder is

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    Apr 20th 2017, 1:54 PM

    Council own land should be leased or sold to people on low income with a credit union loan they could easily enough built a one bed property then when they have a family add on to the property.

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    Mute Sham Rogue
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    Apr 20th 2017, 4:45 PM

    @JustMade Ireland: selling council property is what got us into this mess! Councils should be barred from the sale of property.

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    Apr 20th 2017, 5:59 PM

    @Sham Rogue: I thought the same it only a problem if they don’t use the money to rebuild if they built sold or rented to fund new houseing it better more as people generally have more pride in something they own. We should be asking what did they do with that money.

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    Mute oilscalp
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    Apr 20th 2017, 2:58 PM

    Ah sure everyone wants to be like the Germans and rent apparently. Anyone have survey of Germans/Europeans and whether they actually choose to rent or whether they would prefer to buy but cant afford

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    Mute Aidan Reilly
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    Apr 20th 2017, 4:02 PM

    Only problem with houses is that their way too expensive, over half of the building cost of your bog standard 3 bed semi are government imposed, maybe just maybe it might be an idea to remove some of these one off costs (taxes) and move them into the property tax over the lifetime of the property instead of loading them upfront maybe

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    Mute Tony Daly
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    Apr 20th 2017, 7:40 PM

    So many potential homes are mothballed and vacant.

    Other potential homes are blocked booked for employees of MNCs.

    So many potential homes are allocated to Air B&B.

    Social and affordable accommodation is not being constructed.

    Large tracts of development land are being hoarded for future speculative gain and profit.

    Investment funds are highly selective about the social status of prospective tenants.

    Other potential homes are in the wrong location because of bad spatial planning or complete absence of spatial planning.

    Banks are holding on to repossessed homes so as to take advantage of a rising market.

    Population is increasing.

    Why on earth is there a housing emergency?

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    Apr 20th 2017, 1:24 PM

    The threats of high

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    Apr 20th 2017, 1:28 PM

    @Tom Molloy: High taxes and the treatment of saver/investors as villains by media is having a negative effect.

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