Gavin Elliott

I wish I believed in hell, because every last one of these gowls belongs there.
May there be no end to their suffering in this life.

But the Minister for Housing said that insinuating evictions were a reaction to the new rental rules was just misinformation. So all of these people (and the video evidence released today of a landlord's agents saying exactly that) must be wrong.

'Sell up and get out': Video shows landlord rep blaming new rules for 36 planned evictions The evictions were handed out door to door by the property firm last Friday.

Leaked video shows that 36 rental properties in Wexford were told that their landlord was delivering eviction notices because of the government’s new rental rules

Directly contradicting the claims of the Minister who said any suggestion of link was misinformation

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Bloodied abandoned school bag, Minab.

“Well, it's only in time that we'll find out if it was illegal or not.”

- FF TD Galway East follows his instructions.

Former State agency chief told gardaí he was ‘being blackmailed’ by a senator Francis O’Donnell tells Workplace Relations Commission he reported to gardaí that ‘significant fraud had occurred at Inland Fisheries Ireland’

Former chief executive at Inland Fisheries Ireland told gardaí he was ‘being blackmailed’ by a Senator.

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Landlord evicted family of eight while wielding hammer, court told Circumstances of case, as alleged by tenant, ‘appalling’, says judge

Landlord Imtiaz Khan, who is a practising solicitor and principal of IMK Law, has been ordered to immediately allow a family of eight back into a rental property from which he allegedly evicted them while wielding a hammer.

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Chambers suggested restrictions on ‘no foal, no fee’ environmental cases Minister for Public Expenditure sought ‘radical options’ to deal with judicial reviews of planning and infrastructure issues

Potentially fatal blow to the Govt's plan to cap fees in environmental Judicial Reviews.

Proof that it's motivated by desire to reduce JRs, rather than the lie that it's just to make fees "predictable." Wait until the Aarhus Committee & CJEU get a hold of this.

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If the government aren't willing to accept the views of the UN on the content of international law, they could perhaps listen to academic experts rather than U.S. Department of War press releases.

85 people killed in an attack on a school by the US and Israel.

Cllr Daniel Ennis spoke at the @social-democrats.bsky.social conference in Cork about the fact that " You can't hate up close " .Yesterday Sinn Fein announced Cllr Janice Boylan as their candidate for the upcoming by- election. Today the cowards behind keyboards started on her . Daniel's response -

10% increase in people in emergency accommodation in one year, more than 5000 of them are children.

The government's solution is that people simply aren't paying enough rent and that controls should be weakened.

تسنيم إدريس | Tasnim Idriss @TasnimIdriss Following They captured this innocent Gazan doctor at the hospital, tortured him, then brought him a tablet showing a livestream of his home, called in a strike that killed his six-month-pregnant wife, and made him watch until the rescue crew pulled her body from the rubble. Evil, defined. 1:02 PM 25 Feb 26 52.6K Views

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Residential Tenancies Board head admits rents will rise, 'at least in the short term', under new legislation RTB director Rosemary Steen said it would take months for the impact of the new rules to be seen

Small comfort, but the renters of Dublin Central and Galway West will have an opportunity to express their opinion on the political parties who believe they just aren't paying enough rent.

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Man who sexually abused his children jailed for 20 years A man who sexually abused five of his children, who were locked in a room for days at a time without food and forced to drink urine, has been jailed for 20 years.

A very distressing report. Monstrous individual. Difficult not to hope he dies roaring.

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ACP overruled their own inspector's report which recommended the development.

The Commission "did not agree with the Inspector’s conclusion that the proposal represents an overwhelming public benefit sufficient to justify the degree of heritage harm identified."

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‘My dad never mentioned his past to me’: Soc Dem candidate on facing his late father’s associate Gerry Hutch in Dublin by-election Daniel Ennis was warned by his mother that the newspapers would run stories about his father after he died in 2016.

My friend Dan is among the most principled and decent people I have ever met. He puts himself on the line every single day to help his community, defying the cynical fascists who prey on fear and whip up hatred. This is why he’s going to win #ByElection #SpeirGorm

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Gardaí probe arson attack on Islamic centre in Limerick Gardaí are investigating an arson attack on the Islamic Cultural Centre in Co Limerick in the early hours of the morning.

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Should bike helmets be mandatory? I was on TV a couple of weeks ago talking about Judge O'Donohoe's ill-advised comments on cyclists, where he described an entire class of ordinary people as a "nightmare". In the clip I can be seen ri...

Hi folks. I just published the first post on my new blog. It's about bike helmets and whether they should be compulsory (they should not - read to find out why!).

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Israeli court blocks life-saving cancer care for boy, 5, due to his Gaza address Palestinian boy has been in the West Bank since 2022 but is still registered as a resident in the strip where ban applies

Israeli court blocks life-saving cancer care for boy, 5, due to his Gaza address
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There has been limited recent campaigning for a constitutional right to housing, but even so almost 7 in 10 people are in favour.

There is a clear appetite for the sort fundamental changes that an amendment would represent.

Tinkering around the edges has failes catastrophically.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

I've known Dan for a few years. His integrity and commitment to the constituency has deeply impressed me. Dublin Central couldn’t ask for a better candidate at the upcoming by election.

Big builders say rental reforms are unconstitutional and warn Minister of legal action Five of the country’s biggest developers seek urgent engagement on legislation in advance of March 1st introduction

They almost certainly aren't unconstitutional, but let's put that beyond doubt by introducing a right to housing into the constitution.

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen, as ever on the side of the angels.

The Streets of Minneapolis

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Just waiting for #RTE #drivetime to segue from breathless vox pops with those affected by flooding to informed discussion of why these more extreme precipitation events seem to be getting more common...

Wolf had found the evening paper in Old Fox's desk. He took it to his room & slowly read the names aloud, into the silence. Luis Gustavo Núñez Cáceres, Geraldo Lunas Campos, Victor Manuel Díaz, Heber Sánchez Domínguez, Renee Nicole Good, Parady La, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz. He thought of each soul, earthy & loved as roses, high & holy as falcons, fire stars raken into the breath of night. He imagined each name as a child, their first steps, moving towards smiling faces, outstretched arms of love and care, playing in the street on endless summer afternoons, the sidewalk burning hot, laughing until their bellies hurt, blowing out birthday candles, wishing for the future, the rich unlived life beyond. And then he thought of their murderers, and the dark sky seemed to shatter, falling into cold irretrievable fragments.

Photo of an article in the 25th January 2025 Sunday Times by Ciarán Nevin titled "How is our basic infrastructure so poor"

Thought provoking piece on the causes of our stumbling infrastructure by @ciarannevin.bsky.social in today's Sunday Times.

Third-level course sponsored by Greyhound Racing Ireland branded as 'cynical' Animal welfare campaigners accuse Greyhound Racing Ireland of deflecting scrutiny as TUS launches new accredited industry courses

It's long past time that the life support of taxpayer money was cut off and this 'industry' was allowed to fade away.

The Technological University of the Shannon should be ashamed of itself.

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