If any former @cihhousing.bsky.social Presidents are about the Housing Community Summit we are meeting for a PastitPresidents photo at 5.30 at the networking event 😊 #HousingCommunitySummit

Work begins on 34 new Wheatley homes in Glasgow’s Gallowgate Wheatley Group was last year named the UK’s biggest builder of social housing over the past decade. url:https://www.wheatleyhomes-glasgow.com/news/work-begins-on-34-new-wheatley-homes-in-glasgows-gallowgate

“The surviving editions of the world’s oldest, continuously published English-language daily can now be accessed free” www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

Photo when I was President of Ulster Poly SU (now Ulster University) when we did a three day fast outside Belfast City Hall to raise money for the Simon Community Northern Ireland. This was at the beginning of my journey in housing which I am still proud to be involved in 45 years later.

“For too long, social housing failures have been dismissed as second-tier concerns, largely because the tenure is for people on lower incomes.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Houses themselves are simple, standard things. But it is the land, planning, water, sewage and transport that are the knotted processes choking delivery” @gerardhowlin.bsky.social @irishtimes.com

Absolutely a scam hopefully others don’t fall for it

Just arrived Glasgow Airport and in all my time coming here I have never seen the queues as long for buses. Wonder what’s happened here or is it being caused by flights being cancelled to Heathrow 🤔 not looking good for my flight to London Heathrow this evening 😬

Flying over the Wirral Peninsula this morning where I spent some great summers in Moreton in my early teens with my cousins.I still eat crinkle cut chips as my Aunt used to make them for us. Went for walks with my uncle across to Hoylake facing Wales and to New Brighton facing Liverpool 😊 #nostalgia

International Womens Day parade in Centre of Belfast just now. Met Ray Cashel who was CEO of SHAC Housing when I chaired it in 1980. Also Kevin Cooper (pictured) He was a sabbatical officer when I was President of Ulster University Students Union Jordanstown #IWD2025

Picture from @cihhousing.bsky.social Ireland Awards last Friday at Titanic. With colleagues from Túath Housing now the largest Housing Association on the island of Ireland. I’m nearing the end of my 3 year term as Chair but what an incredible journey it has been with a fantastic bunch of people

Really looking forward to attending this great event

The City Hall Belfast tonight on Valentine’s night

Great to see JP Mc Cusker (Armagh Man) officiating for Everton tonight. The last game against Liverpool at Goodson. He has a morning show at radio city tower Liverpool . As an Armagh manI spent my early years in the company of his dad John O Mc Cusker. I am especially proud 😊

“Contrary to other European cities, the treatment of municipal housing estates as an object of profiteering was always out of the question,” says Kathrin Gaal, Vienna’s deputy mayor and councillor for housing. www.thetimes.com/article/d1b9...

“From London’s Barbican to Berlin’s Corbusierhaus, urban concrete edifices continue to inspire us – whether they be art spaces, apartment blocks or even car parks” www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

“Of those who died between April 2019 and March last year, 58 were aged under one, the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) for households in temporary accommodation said.”

Interesting article by David Mc Williams today in the Irish Times “Some are getting rich from the housing crisis, because one person’s mortgage is another’s piggy bank” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Homeless By : Haynes King (1831-1904)

Look forward to when this is fully operational www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

Just walked to Sydenham station via City Airport. After a quite a walk took the footbridge. Why no signage at the top of the steep steps telling which platform takes you to Belfast City centre. Surely a simple sign would suffice? @belfasttelegraph.co.uk @irishnews.com

Huge rise in young people off work driven by mental health issues. “There is this worrying trend of more young people not being in education or work because of ill health — that’s doubled in the past decade.” www.thetimes.com/article/fe30...

Nice afternoon walk along the River Liffey as it passes through Lucan on its journey into Dublin City

My favourite Indian restaurant in Glasgow and my friend Muhammad Sultan getting some well deserved praise for his charitable work in the city and also in his home country Pakistan. You are a real hero my friend! www.glasgowlive.co.uk/whats-on/foo...

It’s Christmas Eve and I would ask everyone if you are out and about today give a fiver to the first homeless person you meet (or £1 to the first five). If you aren’t out please donate £5 to a homelessness charity you know. There are many great organisations out there I know.They are everywhere

Think I’ll leave this.. I thought twitter was bad but all I get here is lists of bots looking me to following them. They need to do something about this

A crisp but nice morning in Derry from my apartment

Great visiting Myanmar and Laos today in a wooden boat along the Mekong river at the Golden Triangle from Thailand. Also the Opium Museum. Myanmar is on the left and Laos on the right in the photo

Happy 5th birthday from Thailand to my beautiful granddaughter Dearbhla. Can’t wait to see her for Christmas xx

Belfast City Hall earlier this evening

Quizzing Ciara Ferguson MLA Sinn Fein, Kellie Armstrong MLA Alliance and Cllr Séamus de Faoite SDLP during the last session at the Housing Rights conference I was Chairing today in East Belfast.

Edinburgh tonight

Glasgow today

Thanks Jules hope all is well

Any advice on how to connect with followers or following on twitter and linked in who are now on this platform?

Just joined and looking forward to using this platform as an alternative to X