“A force bigger than life itself,” said a eulogy by O’Neill’s friend Carmel Jennings. “Working-class warrior,” said Rita Fagan, another friend of O’Neill’s.
Government policies and plans talk about the need to encourage compact city living, and apartments that are for families and those with children, as well as singles.
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Lower social welfare payments for people aged 18–24 mean it’s even more of a struggle for them to gather the resources to move out of a hostel and into a home.
Part of the government’s argument for encouraging company landlords to buy into Ireland is that it will “professionalise” the market. Some tenants for one big landlord say that’s not their experience.
The council has come across 21 properties so far, some with multiple apartments, that have been short-term lets so long they can’t be forced back into the regular rental market.
The agency “confirmed that pets are okay, so I went ahead and adopted my Ziggy”, says Laura Loos. A few months later though, they warned she would have to leave.
Residents continue to differ with the Hines not just about key characteristics of its scheme on the site of the old Player Wills factory, but also about whether the community consultation is actually real consultation.
