housing crisis

In this two-part series, Sebastian Stephenson talks about the making of his documentary podcast, Overinformed. If you haven't read part 1, you can read that here first. How does a narrative storytelling show of this type come together?…

Our housing crisis and homelessness crisis has dominated Irish political discourse for the second half of the 2010s. It was perhaps the defining feature of the 2020 general election which itself redefined the Irish political landscape, or…

If someone said to you that you could rent a room in central Dublin for €250 a month you would probably be torn between snapping their hand off and looking around to try and find the catch. Well this is what Elder Home Share is offering.…

Over the past few decades, Ireland has managed to shed its reputation as Catholicism’s last great bastion; we’ve gone from a country set in decades old logic to becoming an increasingly liberal and progressive society. The past few…

‘I think all art is political, whether it's meant to be or not.’ The Dublin Fringe Festival has returned this year to a country which has recently repealed the eighth amendment and is experiencing one of the worst housing crises in its…

The crisis in our housing sector is no mistake. It is the result of political decisions, and is seen as “the norm” by people like Conor Skehan, the Government’s top housing advisor. Long-term disinvestment in social housing and the…

This week’s episode of The Suss is honing in on the recent Take Back The City march and subsequent occupation of a site at 35 Summer Hill Parade in Drumcondra, Dublin 1. Organised by an array of housing groups in the city, the…

This is a new series of pieces which will try and sum up what we feel we learned from our amazing guests. All episodes of The Suss are available to sink into your earholes now across a range of platforms. In Episode 25, we sat down with…

Following on from last time out where we gave a ‘thumbs up’ to the group of activists involved in stopping an eviction on Mountjoy Square, Glenn and Steph are joined in studio by Michelle of the Irish Housing Network. We’d put a content…

“Let’s be clear. A deal with Fianna Fail would be a deal with the devil. We would be spat out after five years, and decimated as a party. But… would it be worth it? Power is a many-faceted thing.” Ciaran Cuffe, Green Party TD, May 28th…