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THIS COULD EITHER be spooky, calming, or just a really great place to throw a party.
A former church is up for sale in Drumcondra in Dublin with an asking price of €575,000.
The Victorian building on St Alphonus Road on the city’s northside has been deconsecrated and is currently used as an artist’s studio.
While the pews have been taken out of the former church, it still has all of the fancy marble structures intact, including the altar.
The estate agents helpfully advise that it could be used by church or community groups, converted into offices, or just used as a pretty amazing gaff.
At least given the proximity to Croke Park, you could always drop in before a match for a quick prayer.
All pics: MyHome.ie
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In lisdoonvarna its far higher id say seen as they are putting 130 Syrians into a town of 300, even though 90% the locals voted against it. Say goodbye to tourism in lisdoonvarna. This government want to change the demographic of this country without consulting the people who elected them. Leo the langer will destroy the country.
@Joe Ryan: So brainwashed. Sad.
@Joe Ryan: reckless .only way to stop it is do it yourselfs dont let them in .take in 15 so your not viewed as racist .
@Joe Ryan: how many are women and children?
@Michael Knight: , why is he brainwashed ,?
@Joe Ryan: yet no homes for the homeless,
@Canspell Somtimes: What time is it in Moscow, Igor?
@George Hogan: 4.15 am ,
@Joe Ryan: have use been asked to remove all the religous icons yet ,so they dont feel offended?
@Canspell Somtimes: ask the “homeless” that were in the Gresham do they want a home in Lisdoonvarna. Unless they’re sitting tight for a free holiday home too, they’ll tell you where to go.
@Pat Bateman: i agree with you about most of them in the Gresham they are gaming the system , i am on about genuine homeless families .
@George Hogan: The usual slander from the usual FG fanboys.
@Michael Knight: brainwashed???????…..why is he brainwashed..?
@Joe Ryan: And they will blame the left for bringing them here when there’s not one socialist in power.
@Joe Ryan: With the help of Merkel and of course FF. They are hell-bent on having a homogeneous world where they can brainwash all together, in other words, slavery.
@Joe Ryan: Probably to replace Irish who have already emigrated to Australia in recent years and the remainder are dying on their feet. If we don’t take in people rural Irish towns and villages will never survive or recover.
@Dave Doyle: hi Dave. Read this when you get a moment. Just published today. Thought you might be interested.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/views/analysis/home-loan-laws-must-be-amended-831005.html
@Michael Knight: Watch Sweden and Germany and see who is brainwashed or sad
@Patty Cullinane: ‘Afternoon Patty from a miserable Burgas. Read it and bookmarked it for future reference. A very good article that shows up the lies of banks and government.
@Joe Ryan: It’s no wonder people are voting for ring wing parts, mainstream will not listen to people concerns.
@Dave Doyle: glad you got a read of it. I passed it on to
@Nuala Mc Namara also. Hopefully many others will see the link here, or have already seen it in the Examiner.
@frank murphy: I can’t wait not to vote for FG
There will now be a media advertising campaign telling us why this Government is very trustworthy. We will pay for it. the government will deny any act nor hand in the campaign.
So to translate the creative headline, The majority of people do not trust this government.
@David Huston: The SCU headed by john concannon a shoe and icecream salesman. trying to entice you to buy some FG snake oil.
How can anyone trust a government that has made a virtue out of lies and spin. has corralled all branches of MSM to push it’s spin and lies.
The three main establishment political parties are incapable of telling the truth. The others, well they never had the chance, so far, to show us what they are made of. So judgement is reserved, for now.
People are sick and tired of spin. Sick and tired of lies. Sick and tired of agendas that benefit none but the rich. Sick and tired of the huge social problems that negatively effect their everyday lives. Sick and tired of being told everything is beautiful and rosy in a society that is crumbling around their ears.
MSM, RTE are so controlled by vested interest they are no longer fit for purpose. And neither is the government that feeds them.
@frank murphy: god knows – more than happy to support Commissioners stretching the truth, perpetuatin the great Irish Sell Off to the already wealthy and keen to screw an old pensioner out of bag of coal – honestly really don’t get it.
@frank murphy: who told you that?
@frank murphy: It’s a bit early to be on the FG koolaid Frank.
@frank murphy: If they so popular why wont Leo have a GE ?
The spin machine has backfired on him, and no one believes the rubbish the likes of you spout all day, from you comments you would think we are living in some sort of utopia.
I suppose I could also be like a FG fanboy like you as I am doing well enough and always have and can chose to leave this Country when and if I like, but I am not like you & FG and think I am fine so f all else .. Yes I am doing very well and no thanks to Leo or his lot either, but I am not blind and deaf and can see how hard it is for ordinary honest Irish working people living from pay check to pay check with most of they money going on rent to FG landlords and on stealth taxes to pay for Leo and his cronies massive pay rises and quangos like the spin unit while they fail on Justice, Policing, Vulture Funds, Negative Equity, Housing, Health, Education, Public Services and the list goes on and on and on …………….
@frank murphy: Says who RTE, The Irish Independent, some paid for Redsea poll, yeah right I believe all that.
@wacker macker: Exactly a Claire Byrne Poll, pure bull ..
The same Claire Byrne who during Water Protests introduced an ordinary Irish working person who was against Irish Water as some red communist and then introduced and Pro Irish Water person as an ordinary audience member when it was revealed the next day that they were affiliated to FG, was part of a lobby group and had written Political books .. After that totally biased piece of TV I stopped watching RTE and paying the TV License, as I will not pay for biased pro FG and IW Propaganda.. We get enough of that from Leos SPIN machine and his lackeys on the likes of here and other social media
@Dave Doyle: And Fianna Fail are to blame ,propping up this corrupt government,they have been sitting on the fence for too long,What is the point of an opposition party if they just sit idly by
@Blants: Both, I would say.
@frank murphy: If you call a party that lost 26 seats in the last GE, can only form a minority government concocted by way of back room deals and has to depend on a defacto coalition to stay in power, a “popular party” then you like the rest of the FG fanboys are living with Leo in cloud coo coo land.
Don’t know is “not trusting”. In otherwords 65% don’t trust the government, probably more accurate way to position and closer to reality.
@Toon Army: Or 65% trust the Government depending into which camp you place the ‘don’t knows’.
@George Hogan: tell your partner you don’t know whether you trust them or not. Is it simple enough for you now?
@JimmyMc: no, trust in personal relationships is completely different to trust in a government or system.
“Now that we’ve been caught, I’ve put rules in place to ensure it doesn’t happen again”
@RogerRamjet: you do kean now that we’ve been caught we have put rules in place to prevent been caught again don’t you!
The majority of people don’t distrust the government
@Pat Bateman: Maybe in your utopian neoliberal world. In the real world the reality is far different.
@Pat Bateman: Exactly! 35% of people surveyed from 1,000 people don’t trust the Government. Why would the writer choose to put these statistics in such a negative light. Our support for Government is high by international standards. Why choose to muddy the waters with double-speak?
@Pat Bateman: LOL
@Pat Bateman: yeah I was thinking that myself, 44% trust them, 35% don’t , that’s a 9 point difference , well outside the margin of error, and 21% don’t know or have no opinion, if that was reflected in ge fg would get a overall majority.
After the fantastic way the government handled the recent storm problems got to say I trust them more. Can you imagine bigmac in charge of that? Dear lord we would have been screwed
@Dave Doyle: No, I don’t know the real number. I’m going by the figures given in the article
@dec dunne: if you don’t know whether you trust something or not, then you don’t trust it
@dec dunne: In the “poll” that reflects the voters ie the last GE FG lost 26 seats!
The NECG,Gov,emergency responders,council workers,etc did a great job regarding the severe weather conditions,just shows when National emergencies called and resources etc put in place that it can be very successful!
However similar acknowledgement & declaration& response needed re the National emergencies there in homelessness housing and heath that just not there for a few days but has developed from crisis to emergencies since 2011!
@JimmyMc: But they don’t distrust them
@Pat Bateman: 44% is quite a high figure given the electoral system. The Irish people have been very consistent in not giving any party an overall majority and leadership of coalition goes to the party which is least distrusted. Absence of unconditional trust in any party/leader is the sign of a healthy democracy.
@frank murphy: what are you..a little fine gael clown.
@dec dunne: Photo ops spring to mind. Never mind the heating fiasco begrudging a pensioner some warmth during a blizzard that we only get once a generation. I bet Leo and his cronies weren’t cold for one minute.
@Nuala Mc Namara….published today.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/views/analysis/home-loan-laws-must-be-amended-831005.html
@Blants: FYI I voted across party lines last election and all 4 votes I gave were actually elected fg, ff, lab, ind. now obviously with that they were not all counted but in long/wmeath we have 4 competent, hardworking TDs . And not a looney left or shinner among them, centreparcs is doing massive good for ballymahon and surrounding areas. Not all people are disillusioned with politics, if you vote for those that are against everything, and blame everyone else for people problems then I’m afraid you onto a looser. Vote for the people who will pull you through a crisis the best candidates , then you will get proper representation and in turn a better dail
@Patty Cullinane: Excellent article,Patty!
@Nuala Mc Namara: Hi Nuala. I knew you would be interested. Glad you got a read of it.
I wouldn’t trust Leo Varadkar as far as I’d throw him.
A pure Tory through and through.
You really can fool 44% of the people, all of the time!
@Michael Clark: Very true. The way ireland vote its always going to be FG or FF so id take FG over the other shower though
Get up stand up ,stand up for your rights,
@Michael Clark:
But you can’t Michael Clark.
@Shaun Gallagher: unless those that don’t vote actually vote
@Blants: I’ve never voted for either in my life and intend to keep it that way
@Canspell Somtimes: I have stood up for my rights for close on 30 years but I did not succeed. FG was in power.
Here we go again; the Government using propaganda; using public funds to fool the citizens and pull the wool over their eyes and 44% still trust them!!! Probably the same 44% who are criticizing corrupt dishonest politicians. Are we ever going to wake up in this country. All Leo has to do when we get bad weather is appear at different places with the army standing beside him like a Chinese dictator and the plebs cheer.
I thought leo was double jobbing as a weather man with met eireainn
Leo just wants to let everyone to know he’s a wonderful person and doesn’t care how much it costs for us to know
Strategic comms unit. Even the name they gave it implies spin. Whats strayegic about it? And if a gov has to spend 5 million yearly on communicating with roughly 2 million voters, and has to pay the media to produce positive gov news, it’s even a surprise that 44% say they trust them.
@Adrian: Just goes to show the intelligence of the 44%.
Must be a great spin unit if 50% of the population trust the Fine Fail coalition.
My faith restored, FFG as it is known is an affront to democracy. I wouldn’t vote SF in a year of weekends, pbp and the unorganized leftist politickers only moan with no real plan. But the little apples in the SDs?! A growing party with some real change and the plus of being absent of any cronyism or corruption. Time will tell, again I live in hope.
@Declan: SD’S = Labour LIte.
@Oscar Scatters: Respectively that’s your opinion, not my own thanks.
@Declan: It’s not an opinion it’s a fact but your cultish following of a political party won’t change your mind facts or not.
So the next time you ask yourself “How do people vote for _____?” now you know.
@Declan: Whatever about living in hope, Declan, you’d better plan to live a long time!
Will people ever learn!!!
@Ashling Fenton: The 1000 people that are used regularly in the polls have learned to give all the right answers to the SCUTs. Otherwise they will not be paid.
@Patricia McCarthy: Probably from the same stable as the “Citizens Assembly”. They’ll do and say what they are told.
Like the semi state body Eirgrid spending tax payers money to shove their unwanted pylon project down the length of the country. And this government in cahoots with them so nope I don’t trust this government not even with my empty wallet. About €35 million spent on court cases and advertising. how many houses could be built with that?
I trust them to do what’s in their own selfish interest 100%!
Weird binary choice. I’d prefer the option of “genuinely think they’re doing the right thing but have serious delusions about their actual competence”.
Trust politicians ? what a laugh ,spin lies Asking the well off to look after the interests of the coping class ,Those that work pay tax while politicians look after themselves and their cronies
The Journal love the obvious :)
Many countries in the EU would love to have our rates of unemployment and growth….They would loved to have such a government as ours…..Italy for example….
@John003: Italians voted against a government like ours because they had a choice, unlike here where the 4 main parties are “the center”. How can anyone trust our government, when down the years they all have lied, milked the system and many have been corrupt, i have even less trust in the mainstream media, because they are reluctant to expose this corruption.
@zippo: Sounding a tad paranoid there!
@John003: while people are dying on waiting lists ,rents that the average worker cant afford , ect ect ect
@Canspell Somtimes: you know there’s a big homeless problem in other countries too right?And in most cities rents are so high that people have to commute. The problem here is that people don’t want to take any responsibility for anything, and will blame every single little thing on the government and immigrants/refugees
@zippo: yip and rte is farcical. They won’t bite the hand that feeds them !
@George Hogan:
Would you care to expand on your response to @zippo’s comment?
Could you refer to any articles, stories, links or sources that show we have an honest government that is not corrupt and have not milked the system for their own gain and how the mainstream media is non biased, is willing and eager to expose corruption not just within our political system but across society as a whole?
There is ample enough evidence that backs up @zippo’s points, so I’m just curious as to how you can link @zippo’s point with being paranoid?
Or is it just a weak attempt to try discredit valid commentary by linking it to the “tinfoil hat brigade”?
@John003: On yeah and I suppose they would to pay of our Private Bank dept too .
What a load of bull …
@John003: I guess you’re on their gravy train .
@George Hogan: you’re deluded!
@Colly O’Toole: So, people who disagree with you are either on the gravy train or deluded. Clearly, a majority result from the survey disagrees with your profound analysis.
@John003: When the government are talking about how they brought down unemployment they are patting themselves in the back but they were greatly HELPED by the thousands and thousands of young Irish people who were unemployed and EMIGRATED some never to return.
This brought down unemployment figures considerably NOT actions of the government unless you want to count MICHAEL NOONAN cheering them on as they headed for the airport saying it was a LIFESTYLE CHOICE.
You also have the people who were made redundant and received unemployment benefit for approximately a year got no job but didn’t qualify or the means tested unemployment so they dropped out of the system making it look like unemployment was falling again nothing to do with anything the government did.
I wouldn’t trust this poll. No one but the elite trust them!
I’m surprised it even that many people. Greatest bunch of lying gombeens you could ever meet. As the saying goes “I would nt believe their radios”
“Just under half”. 44%. If FG increased their support by 6% in the polls, the headline would be FG surging in the polls.
Sure under half the people voted for them too so that sounds about right
recent events during the “beast from the east” bread grab has cemented my view…Herd mentality.Most people are sheep cant think for themselves.Its the same when they vote follow the herd.Brand sheep.More of the same please..Ff of Fg…
If people don’t trust them, why do they vote for them? There are other options, why not choose someone else? I’m sure the comrades would make a splendid job of running the country. If things didn’t go well, they could always organise a protest against the government.
@Cathal O’Donoghue: The elections are rigged. Even a head count of how many people go in to the polling booths and how many votes are sent out in the boxes would prove that there is a huge discrepency.The country is run into the ground by 2 criminal mafia organisations. Ff/Fg. With the full support of the smaller parties and a few gombeen independents.
How far can I throw a fg member that’s about how much I trust them.
That goes for all politicians and parties though.
The amount of tweets he puts up & his party shows how desperate they are trying to buy election. The posts they put are just ridiculous. I don’t think they should use social media to advertise their party . Then they have posters on bus shelters about 2040 vision.pathetic. The money they waste could be invested in water system which yet again is failing . Irish water have wasted so much money on advertising,bounous. 1 big mess by finegael
I will always distrust the government no matter who makes it up….
Millennials don’t know what is good for them so no need to worry about them, don’t even vote.
When every one is in the pockets of every one,,,,the so called ones that really run the “liar & Spin” brigades,,,,,everything spins,,.
They must remembered the multitude have cottoned on now,,,,the days of back handers has gone one now has to be “Transparent,,,,HAHAHAHA,,,Ya for codding me or what.
Lads FF don’t even trust FG look in the dictionary and look up the word untrustworthy invented by FIANNA Fail mastered by Fine Gael
I Trust Bosco…
Ya think?
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