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A PEOPLE BEFORE Profit TD has said a rally against the eviction of tenants from Dublin’s Tathony House shows that “you can fight and you can resist”.
A rally is currently taking place outside Tathony House in Bow Bridge, Kilmainham, to coincide the date on which tenants had been ordered to move out by.
The landlord has decided to sell the property and evict 34 households in the process.
Some have moved out since have had to relocate to places like Meath and Dundalk as they were unable to find a home in Dublin.
The remaining residents were ordered to move out by today but have said they will remain in place until their case with the Residential Tenancies Board has concluded.
Speaking at a rally today outside Tathony House, PBP TD Bríd Smith said: “The lesson from today is that you can fight, you can resist, you don’t have to give in to the demands of the landlords when your eviction notice is issued, you can resist.”
Smith added that people in Ireland don’t have “proper tenants’ rights”.
She told the rally: “In the meantime, people like the tenants of Tathony House are being faced with absolute desperation and either two choices; one, resist, fight, and stay where you are or give in and go into homelessness.
“I think the first choice is far better, far healthier, far more positive, and most likely to give you results.
“There’s nothing like fighting back and getting organised, but it does mean getting organised and you see the sort of structures of that here today.”
Smith added that the “bigger fight is to get rid of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael”.
Madeleine Johansson, a People Before Profit councillor and Tathony tenant of 14 years, previously told The Journal there was “no indication” that the landlord wanted to sell before the notice was served in October.
Speaking at today’s rally, Johansson said the situation has been “very frustrating, difficult, and stressful”.
TATHONY HOUSE: WE WILL NOT BE PUT OUT ON THE STREETS
— People Before Profit (@pb4p) May 31, 2023
10 remaining households have been ordered to leave by June 2nd .
But they're refusing to go - as is their right!
📣 Rally to support them
⏰ 12pm
📍 outside Tathony House in Bow Bridge, Kilmainham
📅Friday pic.twitter.com/AqscRoAMVK
She added: “There’s a huge amount of people with eviction notices out there, which obviously puts a lot of pressure on the rental market, which means that there’s more or less nowhere for people to go, that is the reality.”
Johansson and her partner James O’Toole have spearheaded the tenants’ campaign.
Addressing today’s rally, O’Toole said he too is “tired and stressed” but added that he is “determined to stick with this”.
Fabiola Escalera, who is a native of Mexico, is also a tenant of Tathony House.
She told The Journal: “It is really stressful because you have a lot of things going, it’s not your country and you don’t have your family here, so you are worrying all the time if you’re going to stay here or not.
“You’re seeing the prices in other houses, you have to pay €700 by sharing a room with two or three other people, so it’s really, really stressful for me.”
She said she may return home should she not be allowed to stay in Tathony House and expressed concern about her ability to afford rent elsewhere.
-With additional reporting from Diarmuid Pepper
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Jayziz. I genuinely thought that was a picture from Fr Ted.
Seriously.
….” Father Jack said God doesn’t exist…”
Ted said you were touchin’m!!
Off the wall, type of stuff and what next? Jesus dolls for kids?
The tiles must be savage, he already p p p picked up a penguin
The poor nun being blocked by ur ones sleeve!!
No thanks!
I read it wrong and thought it said Paulo Nutini!!
Me too.
Me three.
hahaha same as
Debbie don’t be hasty.
The latest in MERCHANDISING from the church …..I can see it all now ……And we thought “behold the Holy Handgrenade” in the Life Of Brian was bad …. I like Jesus … Jesus Navas … He’s not the messiah , he’s jus a very very speedy boy ….
Blue tiles. Are they for real. More like tiles of Shame they should be
Hanging over their doors and doing penance forever more.
Where is his hi-vis jacket and safety boots not forgetting his helmet ?
the nuns would cushion the fall
The IHS sun worship symbolism from the so called Pagan sun worship days. Same in the monstrance on the Altar/Alter stone in the churches built in the shape of the female reproductive organs.
The blue being the energy from source.
As for protection, was this not the job of the Sheelagh Na Gighes?
Holy names = whole names.Complete in male and fe+male energies.
What nonsensical drivel is this linking with paganism?
Typical when there’s a religious article.
Ah Ross most of Today’s Christian sites were pagan worship sites, croagh Patrick being a prime example, And many holy wells across the county. It was an easy way to convert pagans to Christians at the time as they could relate to the sites.
I’ve had a look at the website and I can’t find the bit where I can purchase holytiles. I often saw then above front doors in Galway City, and (yes, I know – to my shame) coveted them. Is there a link I missed?
IHS doesn’t mean “Jesus”.
It is the symbol of the Order of Jesuits and it is thought to represent “Isis Horus and Seb” . http://www.whale.to/c/isisho29.jpg
Spell IHS backward and include the cross on top as the last letter…. http://s29.postimg.org/go0kjg7p3/Ihs.jpg
Disgraceful and insulting comment.
Nothing can be more disgraceful and insulting than the Roman Catholic Church.
There is no mention of the letter IHS in the Bible.
IHS as an abbreviation to Jesus is just as insulting as abbreviating the word Christmas to XMAS.
You would be entirely wrong there.
No…. When Jesus Broke Bread and wine with his disciples he said….
“And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. …
A simple offering of breaking a piece off household bread and spreading it among the disciples as a memorance in what our lord did by his suffering on the cross…
There is absolutely no mention of a precision unbroken round Wafer “God” inscribed with the letters IHS in the Bible….
People need to dig deeper about the sinister meaning of this Sun God worship. Round Wafer, Sunburst …..Held in the air. The Roman Catholic Church even admits the Monstrance to be a sunburst:… so to conclude ………….. If it looks like a duck….
“”And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded” Deuteronomy 17:3
Frisbees :)
I think the Laity in Ireland, have done enough TOILING for the RC Church.
Oh I only came on this page because i thought it was paolo nutini you were talking about … :(
Lol. Me too. Couldn’t understand why he was doing holy tiles.
More mystique in my cat.
Wouldn’t it be a grand oul’ existence if there was nothing needing to be done but grin about a few oul tiles….. surreality encapsulated
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