The new record of 5,014 homeless children living in State-provided accommodation is a national disgrace. Ireland's housing system has deteriorated primarily because of ineffective government policies. #HousingCrisis #Ireland

31 Too Young To Die. Seán Collins beside the coffin of his brother, Michael Collins in #Dublin's City Hall where he lay in state for three days following his death at Béal na mBláth in Cork. The photo was taken on 27th August 1922. 📚#TheColourOfIreland 🇮🇪 #Treaty21 #Éire #Irish

Allowing properties to remain derelict for decades should be considered a crime against the state. Ireland's housing system is in a state of disrepair, primarily due to ineffective Government policies. 📷 78 Dorset Street Upper, Phibsborough, Dublin 1 #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland #Dublin #Ireland

Leaving properties derelict for decades should be a crime against the state. It's worth mentioning that by the end of June 2025, another monthly record of 15,915 people—including 4,958 children—were accessing emergency homeless accommodation. #DerelictIreland 📷Richmond Street, Portobello, Dublin 2

No. 43, formerly Gig's Place, is now the Richmond Restaurant—it's great to see these vacant properties coming back to life. #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland #Dublin #Ireland richmondrestaurant.ie

Leaving properties derelict for decades should be a crime against the state. It's worth mentioning that by the end of June 2025, another monthly record of 15,915 people—including 4,958 children—were accessing emergency homeless accommodation. #DerelictIreland 📷Richmond Street, Portobello, Dublin 2

My coloured Robert French c.1900 photo shows tram number 119 travelling along Irishtown Road in the inner suburb of Dublin City. Irishtown (An Baile Gaelach) originated as a settlement in the 1400s when the English expelled the Irish from within the city walls of Dublin. #TheColourOfIreland

We should be making livable homes, not 32-square-meter units. To put this in perspective: a standard tennis court for doubles play is 260 square meters, meaning eight of these minimum-sized studio apartments could fit into a single court. #HousingCrisis #Ireland

College Green could have avoided much of its ugly street clutter by using the "third rail" technology, similar to what is used in Bordeaux in France. This technology eliminates the need for poles and power lines. Unfortunately, it wasn't implemented mainly because of cost concerns. #Streetclutter

Approaching Connolly Train Station, it's striking to see all the empty fields amid a housing crisis, with over fifteen thousand people accessing emergency accommodation. #HousingCrisis #DerelictIreland

Bringing Ireland's Past to Life 🇮🇪⛪️ My restored and coloured Robert French c.1900 photo of Michael's Lane showing, in the background, Synod's Hall of Christ Church Cathedral and the medieval tower of the old St. Michael's Church in the Dublin Liberties. #TheColourOfIreland #Dublin #Ireland #History

Then and Now 📅 c1900 and in 2022 📌Michael's Lane (now St. Michael's Close) in the Dublin Liberties behind Synod Hall (Dubinia) in Dublin City. 🧐Google Street View: maps.app.goo.gl/P5NhA8td9DWZ... #TheColourOfIreland #Dublin #Ireland #History

Hidden background details of Michael's Lane in the Dublin Liberties, close to Christ Church Cathedral, circa 1900. 1: Black and White Cat 🐈‍⬛ 2: Women's clothes brokers meeting🤝 3: Workman 🚧👷 4: Water Pump 🚰 5: The Washing🧥👖👗 #TheColourOfIreland #Dublin #Ireland #History

Dublin Liberties children on Michael's Lane in c1900. #TheColourOfIreland #Dublin #Ireland #History

Bringing Ireland's Past to Life 🇮🇪👧🧒👚👖👗 My restored and coloured Robert French c.1900 photo of Michael's Lane in the Dublin Liberties close to Christ Church in Dublin City features the local clothes brokers when the lane was a poverty-stricken area. #TheColourOfIreland #Dublin #Ireland #History

Then and Now 📅 1895 and in 2024 📌The Malahide Seawater Baths on the Coast Road in Malahide (Mullach Íde) in Fingal, County Dublin. 🧐Google Street View: maps.app.goo.gl/y5DPauAUVwQC... #TheColourOfIreland #Dublin #Ireland #History

My coloured 1895 Robert French photo of The Malahide Seawater Baths in Malahide, County Dublin. Sadly, the baths were demolished in 1984, and an apartment block now stands in their place on the corner of Bath Avenue, immediately beyond the Grand Hotel towards Portmarnock. #TheColourOfIreland

Bringing Ireland's Past to Life 🇮🇪⛪️👒🚂🚧 My restored and coloured c.1900 photo from the Eason Photographic Collection of Church Street in the coastal settlement of Malahide (Mullach Íde) in Fingal, County Dublin. #TheColourOfIreland #Dublin #Ireland

The transformation of Malahide (Mullach Íde) in Fingal, County Dublin, since 1953 has been remarkable. This growth can largely be attributed to developers who recognised the area's potential in the 1960s, leading to the construction of numerous housing estates. #TheColourOfIreland #Dublin #Ireland

Bringing Ireland's Past to Life 🇮🇪🛩️📷🚂⛳️ My coloured 1953 aerial photo of Malahide (Mullach Íde) in Fingal, Co. Dublin. The photo features St Sylvester's Catholic Church and the railway line crossing the Broadmeadow estuary on the Broadmeadow viaduct, known locally as "The Arches." #TheColourOfIreland

Bringing Ireland's Past to Life 🇮🇪⛳️ My coloured 1895 photo of the original Malahide Golf Links course and pavilion. The club was founded in 1892 by one of Ireland's foremost painters, Nathaniel Hone, with a shore links course close to the Grand Hotel in Malahide Village. #TheColourOfIreland

Bringing Ireland's Past to Life 🇮🇪 My restored and coloured photo from October 20, 1888, photographed by James Talbot-Power, shows the Wormwood Gate entrance to Meeting House Lane from New Row Upper Saint Augustine Street in the Dublin Liberties in Dublin City. #TheColourOfIreland #Dublin #Ireland

Once our heritage is gone, it's gone forever! 😡 There used to be four beautiful cast-iron gas lamps decorated with carved Hippocampus sea horses which surrounded the statue of Henry Grattan on College Green in Dublin City. #Dublin

October 20, 1888, photographed by James Talbot-Power, shows Upper John's Lane West as viewed from Thomas Street in Dublin City. 🧐Google Street View: maps.app.goo.gl/ERReCAZvHaTa... #TheColourOfIreland #Dublin #Ireland #History

October 20, 1888, photographed by James Talbot-Power, shows Upper John's Lane West as viewed from Thomas Street in Dublin City. 🧐Google Street View: maps.app.goo.gl/ERReCAZvHaTa... #TheColourOfIreland #Dublin #Ireland #History

Bringing Ireland's Past to Life 🇮🇪👜🛍️👢🥾 My restored and coloured photo from October 20, 1888, photographed by James Talbot-Power, shows Upper John's Lane West as viewed from Thomas Street in Dublin City. #TheColourOfIreland #Dublin #Ireland #History

Bringing Ireland's Past to Life 🇮🇪 My restored and coloured c1890s Robert French photo of the River Lee and St. Patrick's Bridge in Cork City, and in the background the Shandon Bells and Clock Tower of St Anne's Church, known to Corkonians as "The Four-Faced Liar". #TheColourOfIreland #Cork

“Central Bank lowers housing and growth forecasts ..expects 32,500 this year, 37,500 next year, & 41,500 in 2027” Forecasts are just guesses Speculative markets do what markets do.. & the next phase of the housing crisis has again been left to the speculative markets www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

7 years on, & housing policy is failing because it still has all the wrong targets

One of my favourite beaches is Tullagh Bay Beach in beautiful Co. Donegal.🏖️😎🏄 #WildAtlanticWay #Donegal

Bringing Ireland's Past to Life 🇮🇪⛪️🏗️🥃 My restored and coloured photo from April 18, 1891, by James Talbot-Power, features Saint Augustine Church (John's Lane Church) on Thomas Street in Dublin City, with its 223-foot spire under construction. #TheColourOfIreland #Dublin #Ireland #History

My coloured 1952 aerial shot of the Ennis Road in Limerick City, just before the start of the Munster Senior Hurling Final between Cork and Tipperary. Christy Ring, one of Ireland’s greatest ever hurlers, delivered one of his finest performances, thrilling the huge crowd. #TheColourOfIreland

Yes it is. ffud for #DerelictIreland with @judesherry.bsky.social

1952 aerial shot of the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick during the Munster Hurling Final between Cork and Tipperary. Cork won the match with a score of 1-11 to 2-6, securing their place in the All-Irelandfinal against Dublin. #TheColourOfIreland #GAA #LuimneachAbú #Limerick #Ireland #History

Dereliction is a Social Crime!🏚️🏚️🏚️ The Shannon Shamrock Hotel, opened in 1959, was a prominent 115-bedroom hotel adjacent to the renowned Bunratty Castle and Folk Park. The hotel closed in 2009 and has remained vacant and derelict ever since. #DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis #Clare #Ireland

My coloured Will’s Cigarette Card of Limerick hurler Mickey Cross (4 March 1902–17 July 1977), he won two All-Ireland medals, five Munster medals, and four National Hurling League medals. At club level, Cross played with Claughaun and won two county championship medals. #TheColourOfIreland #GAA

My coloured and restored photograph, taken on the 20th October 1888, shows the corner of Lower Bridge Street looking towards Wormwood Gate in The Liberties in Dublin 8. 🧐Google Street View: maps.app.goo.gl/HW2Bm9sZEon4... #TheColourOfIreland #Dublin #Ireland #History

Bringing Ireland's Past to Life 🇮🇪🗝️ My coloured and restored photograph, taken on the 20th October 1888, shows the corner of Lower Bridge Street looking towards Wormwood Gate in The Liberties in Dublin 8. #TheColourOfIreland #Dublin #Ireland #History

Bringing Ireland's Past to Life 🇮🇪🗝️ My coloured and restored photograph, taken on the 20th October 1888, shows the corner of Lower Bridge Street looking towards Wormwood Gate in The Liberties in Dublin 8. #TheColourOfIreland #Dublin #Ireland #History

Dereliction is legalised vandalism for the property-owning classes. Three derelict houses on Tank Road, Luddan, Buncrana, Co. Donegal. 🏚️🏚️🏚️ Google Street View: maps.app.goo.gl/wyGkwE1jGmQh... #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland #Donegal #Ireland

Bringing Ireland's Past to Life 🇮🇪🏗️🚧 My graphic, where I’ve overlaid two Wide Streets Commission maps, reveals the extensive demolition required to create Dublin's Westmoreland Street and D'Olier Street. This project marked one of the Commission's final major developments. #TheColourOfIreland #Dublin

Bringing Ireland's Past to Life 🇮🇪🛩️📸🚢🚂🚃 My coloured 1955 aerial photo, taken by Alexander "Monkey" Campbell Morgan, shows Alexandra Basin in Dublin Port. #TheColourOfIreland #Dublin #Ireland #History

2-6 Dunville Terrace, facing the Grand Canal close to Ranelagh Road, has been demolished today. The Construction Industry Federation, which has owned these houses since the 1990s, has failed to pay more than €140,000 in derelict site levies owed on this South Dublin terrace. #HousingCrisis

1980 photo showing in the background the late 19th-century redbrick cottages at 2-6 Dunville Terrace, facing the Canal close to Ranelagh Road, Dublin 6. These cottages have been listed on the council's Derelict Site Register since June 2023, but have been in a state of dereliction for decades.

There's a good reason why the old Enniscorthy Bridge was built at this location and height above the River Slaney in 1775—unlike its counterpart, the Seamus Rafter Bridge, built in 1991, which the OPW plans to demolish to reduce the town's vulnerability to flooding BM 31.2 (feet) v's BM 25.1 (feet)

Bringing Ireland's Past to Life 🇮🇪 😓🍻 The gravediggers at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin would enjoy a pint of stout during their breaks at John Kavanagh's "The Gravediggers" pub, founded in 1833—perhaps one of Ireland's longest-running family-owned pubs. #TheColourOfIreland #Dublin #Ireland #Guinness

Bringing Ireland's Past to Life 🇮🇪🚋🧑‍🏭🚧👷 My coloured and restored photo, taken in June 1951 by Irish Railway Record Society founder Kevin A. Murray, shows the removal of tram tracks on College Green in Dublin City. #Dublin #Ireland #Luas #TheColourOfIreland

Dereliction is a social crime Call it out art by ffud #DerelictIreland

Dereliction has been around since foundation of the state & before It became normalised in recent decades resulting in record numbers of properties boarded up while record numbers struggle on streets & emergency/temporary accommodation Its a social crime & should be treated as such #DerelictIreland

My coloured photo shows the removal of tram tracks on Dame Street, Cork Hill and Lord Edward Street in Dublin City. The Dublin United Tramways Company operated 137 trams on routes totalling over 32 miles. The last tram in Dublin City ran on July 9, 1949. #TheColourOfIreland