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# derelict

This year
2023
Voices
Analysis: 'In a housing crisis, this government is leaving thousands of buildings to rot'
A grim indictment of Ireland’s political policies is the scale of dereliction of buildings throughout the country, writes Dr Frank O’Connor.
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Apr 15th 2023, 7:45 PM
Last year
2022
# Limerick
Limerick's dangerous and derelict buildings caused by 'property speculating'
Documents show how Limerick deals with dangerous and derelict buildings.
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Feb 21st 2022, 12:05 AM
All time
# derelict
What is - and isn't - being done about Ireland's 180,000 vacant and derelict buildings
“It cannot make sense for the economy and it cannot make sense for the people who live here.”
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Jun 28th 2021, 8:00 PM
# not the solution
Labour's Brendan Howlin says Take Back The City is something 'he wouldn't be associated with'
Howlin yesterday faced down members of his own party at Labour’s think-in in Drogheda.
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Sep 17th 2018, 9:53 AM
# Clonliffe Road
Multiple fire engines called to blaze overnight at derelict building on Dublin's northside
It’s understood that no one was injured in the blaze.
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May 27th 2018, 10:42 AM
# Glasnevin
'It deserves a better legacy than this': Blaze causes significant damage to listed building
Local TD Noel Rock told TheJournal.ie that it’s a “disaster” that the building has been left idle.
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Aug 12th 2017, 6:00 AM
# vacant and derelict
Taking rundown Dublin buildings and turning them into homes
A homelessness charity sees vacant or derelict sites as a way of alleviating the homelessness crisis.
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Jun 17th 2017, 7:15 AM
# Your Say
Poll: Would taxing vacant sites make a difference to the housing crisis?
The Green Party has outlined plans for legislation involving the taxation of vacant and derelict properties in a bid to ease the housing crisis.
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Dec 20th 2016, 10:01 AM
# carrot and stick
Green Party thinks taxing vacant sites could help tackle housing shortage
The proposal aims to “incentivise development and discourage land speculation”.
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Dec 20th 2016, 6:30 AM
# The final frontier
Check out these incredible pictures of the ruins of America's Space Race
Photographer and academic Roland Miller has travelled across America capturing images of the remnants of an international race long forgotten.
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Mar 13th 2016, 6:00 PM
# take a dip
These are the new plans for Dun Laoghaire's derelict baths
What do you think of them?
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Mar 24th 2015, 12:58 PM
# abandoned
Some of these derelict sites in Dublin have been vacant for years
Many of these buildings could help address the current housing crisis.
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Feb 15th 2015, 8:15 AM
# Dangerous
Army conducts 'painstaking' search for explosives at derelict building
A “volatile” War of Independence grenade has already been found at the Dublin location and it is believed there may be a number of dangerous devices there.
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May 13th 2014, 4:04 PM
# no use
Council told to "get its house in order" and use derelict Dublin sites
Former Green Party TD Ciarán Cuffe is calling on the Dublin City Council to either make something of the sites they own or sell them
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May 12th 2014, 8:50 PM
# ghost skyscraper
Derelict African skyscraper wouldn't be lost in a sci fi horror
Ponte City apartments were designed to be des res homes – things didn’t go as planned.
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Nov 17th 2013, 5:00 PM
# Dublin 12
Houses evacuated after viable bomb found in Drimnagh
The device, discovered at a derelict house in the west Dublin suburb, has been made safe by army experts.
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Aug 28th 2013, 4:09 PM
# vacant sites
Vacant sites "should be used for community projects"
The Irish Planning Institute says that derelict or vacant sites should be used for low-cost community projects – instead of being “just turned into car parks”.
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Jan 2nd 2012, 8:30 AM