#DerelictIreland is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to dysfunctional Ireland. All the below is true, and people continue to shrug and say “what can we do”? “We have no choice for Govt but FFG”!

Houses used for short term lets. Homelessness crisis worse than ever. Hotels being used for emergency accommodation. The whole thing is completely cooked.

4.2m beds offered to tourist 45k potential homes* used as hotels These empty homes won't appear on @GeoDirectory_ie or @ESBNetworks vacant homes data even though 96% of them lie empty this month #VacantIreland #DerelictIreland #everyoneshouldhaveahome #spéirgorm *If average homes is 3 bed

Unoccupied short-term lets, wide scale vacancy & dereliction & record homelessness All enabled by politicians such as the Landlord Minister Michael Healy-Rae It shouldn't make sense but when you throw in greed & the money making opportunities things become much clearer #DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm

👩‍🎓Rural schools closing 🏐 GAA can fill rural teams ✈Young adults emigrating 🏚No where to rent 📈House prices unaffordable But yeah wothout illegal business leaving homes empty most of yr, run by people who can afford multiple homes, rural Ireland would collapse #everyoneshouldhaveahome #spéirgorm

What a load of bollox by Landlord Minister Michael Healy-Rae on short-term lets & with record homeless figures too He must really hate rural Ireland & all it represents if he wants it to be full of empty homes He's a harsh reminder of our colonial landlords #DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm

It seems private security firms hired by property hoarders/speculators & aided by the Guards come down really forceful & often violent on squatters, making it extremely dangerous In Ireland property rights are valued more than human rights 😪 #derelictireland #speirgorm

Destitute despairing #DerelictIreland

Today we were reminded that politicians make people homeless 😪 ffud art for #DerelictIreland representing the 700 empty properties @judesherry.bsky.social & I found in Cork City #speirgorm

It's 21 years since these 20 apartments in Macroom, Co. Cork were complete They've never been used Shame on owner Dunnes Stores, Cork County Council & the Irish Government for allowing this in a housing emergency This is why we need compulsory rental & custodian squatting #DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm

Broken social contract Have no doubt this is down to Irish Government policy that not only lets wealthy owners sit on their assets, it actually rewards them for it Hang your heads in shame Micheál Martin, Simon Harris, Fianna Fáil & Fine Gael How can you sleep at night? #DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm

We need everyone to treat the next election as a referendum on whether we believe this is acceptable. #spéirgorm

I used to live on one of the lanes that joined Shandon to Pope's Quay. Gods, what a beautiful area, absolutely ruined by parasitic landlord scum.

1 street in Shandon Cork City 4 empty council homes 230 children in Cork & Kerry without a home €2,242 average monthly rent €18,082 to relet a council home €180k a yr for family in emergency accommodation €220k a yr spent boarding up council homes #DerelictIreland #spéirgorm

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With record homeless nos, renters paying gentrified prices for shite, out of reach housing costs & record no. of empty homes is anyone really surprised that we have 61 TDs including Ministers who are landlords / multi-property owners How are these setting policy? #DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm

Seriously, dial 1 for housing, & see what Cork city council say about all of their boarded up homes What will their excuses be? Because there are more than enough homes for everyone if they & other owners refrained from boarding up their properties #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland #SpeirGorm

Here is the truth: many of us have never had it so bad #DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm

They do this because it's working. The division. The people who are turning right are listening. Takes some neck to be a politician

What a horrible man Simon Harris is He really is the pits targeting the vulnerable through his lies & gaslighting A man whose party policies have enabled homeless crisis, vacancy & dereliction epidemic & housing crisis He really has no shame #DerelictIreland #HowIrelandWorks #SpeirGorm

Aside from the fact that what Harris is saying is a flat-out lie, everyone has the right to a home. EVERYONE.

How was landlord TD Robert Troy appointed Minister of State for Finance in 2025? The man who had to resign as Minister of State in 2022 for failing to declare his property portfolio as well as other wrongdoings & misdemeanours Now in Finance Sadly no accountability in #DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm

Nothing inspires confidence in the people overseeing finance than knowing they forgot about owning multiple properties. It's even better than finding out they apparently don't have a bank account.

This has aged really well over the past 3 years for Micheál Martin #DerelictIreland #speirgorm

2026 has arrived & Odlums is still standing & still decaying And Cork is still waiting for its Events Centre #DerelictIreland #RestPlayWork #speirgorm

Imagine building a reputation for punching down against the vulnerable Imagine its Irelands Tánaiste & Minister of Finance doing the punching Welcome to the life of Simon Harris #speirgorm

Really So are they expecting the new owners to let them empty? Or is it a case the new owners won't be cramming in as many tenants into them as previous? Because the houses are not going anywhere .. unless the houses are also planning to emigrate #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland #speirgorm

1 street in Shandon Cork City 4 empty council homes 230 children in Cork & Kerry without a home €2,242 average monthly rent €18,082 to relet an council home €180k a yr for family in emergency accommodation €220k a yr spent boarding up council homes #DerelictIreland #spéirgorm

1 street in Shandon Cork City 4 empty council homes 230 children in Cork & Kerry without a home €2,242 average monthly rent €18,082 to relet a council home €180k a yr for family in emergency accommodation €220k a yr spent boarding up council homes #DerelictIreland #spéirgorm

Dial 1 for housing & ask can you get your hands on one of these many boarded up council homes on Dominic Street, Shandon near Cork city centre This is unacceptable Structural violence & vandalism boarding up homes & keeping them from families who have no home 😡 #DerelictIreland #speirgorm

Ireland, 2025 230 children without a home across Cork & Kerry this Christmas while thousands of homes in both counties lay empty Cork city's vacancy/dereliction epidemic is well documented, however it'd be very hard to find a single village & town not impacted Criminal #DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm

Greed. #speirgorm

What choice do they or anyone else have? Sadly Government favour property class/landlords over those who need a home @judesherry.bsky.social & I will continue to make case for custodian squatting which along with compulsory sales & rental would transform housing situation #DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm

Spot the difference 😡 I took the top photo yesterday, Christmas Day 2025, I took the bottom photo 4 yrs ago, Christmas Day 2021 This heritage vandalism is happening on North Main St, the historic core of Cork city centre It is being enabled by the authorities #DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm

It's heartbreaking to see today so many boarded-up houses across Limerick City as temperatures drop, rough sleepers seeking shelter outside these derelict and vacant buildings amid a housing crisis 🎄🏚️ 📷 Creagh Lane, King's Island, Limerick City. #HousingCrisis #Limerick #Christmas #DerelictIreland

Dereliction is a social crime Costing lives, traumatising generations & destroying our urban environments #DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm

Again today 1pm ❤️ Grand Parade Cork City Ireland

The Spectacle, boy

Solidarity is beautiful ❤️ Cork City Ireland now #speirgorm

This is another shocking example of the lack of vision or accountability in Ireland In this case its Dublin, it could be anywhere across the country We need to urgently invest in public luxury so everyone can #RestPlayWork #SpeirGorm

A major reason the govt has no interest in solving the housing disaster is because landlords (their pals and voters) are making inordinate amounts of money of it. Sweden's privatisation of virtually everything is causing similar crises, with the same results.

This is another expensive tribunal in the making. If we follow the money I wouldn’t be shocked to see it go into brown envelopes.

The vandalism of Dublin goes on & on Disgusting that property rights are deemed more important than human rights in Ireland Evidenced with the epidemic of vacancy & dereliction Some children will spend 4th Christmas in emergency accommodation while owners sit on their assets 😡 #SpeirGorm

Would absolutely love to see our national media pointing at this rather than singling out vulnerable groups of people.

These buildings in Dolphins Barn have been derelict for more than 25 years.

It's 25 years since the Family Law Court hole in the ground eyesore was created In that time the people of Dublin could have been given a 'meanwhile use' park Imagine something like the Blessington Basin up the road from here Sadly public luxury has no place in #DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm