I don’t know if you’ve any IPAS centres or emergency accommodation near you - I was working with a family living in one who were delighted with an old sofa and brought it back in a shopping trolley! If there are any support orgs maybe they’d arrange for collection?

Congrats on making the cut! Hope it goes well!

Great yarn about Michael O’Leary canvassing in Greenhills post-joining FG. A polite woman answered the door, asked him to wait a moment. He assumed the ‘man of the house’ was en route. Instead she emptied a bucket of water on him from the boxroom window to the sound of “get out of here you traitor.”

“Notorious Dogging Spot” was/is on my list of names for the band I’m going to form/join.

Taught him for the grand total of three weeks. I doubt he knows who I am!

Former student of mine. A Rovers man of course!

One pair of numbers nicely illustrates where the Irish housing crisis actually originates.
* There were 1000 housing units awaiting planning permission due to judicial review in 2024.
* In 2024 there were more than 80,000 housing units with planning permission on which construction had not started.

The secret ingredient is crime