No it is not 1950’s blight on Irish landscape as people left Ireland as poor emigrants but it is now. Thank you Frank O’Connor, Jude Sherry, Anois. This is just some of the photos of the blight now in a country that has a homeless crisis with children in hostels. There are schemes like Repair and Lease to encourage landlords back into the market of rental but it apparently is insufficient. Neglect in our environment and cities only paves the way for social distress. All it takes is a photo, we are calling out “wasted homes” … we can have change surely. The UK chain John Lewis and their latest venture to build back homes into their cities, as Guinness did, in another century, just look to Dublin 8 near Christchurch, St Patrick’s Cathedral. Let’s clean up Ireland by starting with dereliction

Zara King @ZaraKing 14th June 2022 #BREAKING  “Isn’t it much closer to the poor law system that we thought we

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Quotations: Dwight D. Eisenhower who served in World War II. As Pope Francis indicates he fears World War III…what can we learn? Detente / Diplomacy. Ukraine with a population of 45 million but rapidly decreasing is in real time, has been invaded by Russian Federation on 24th February of this year 2022. War is a destroyer of human beings … NATO / EU / AUKUS Japan / South Korea / China / India. Food and Energy are essential yet starvation for the poorest is as near as 40 days. Two quotations … wisdom as we hurtle into a disaster of war and inflation

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those

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14th June 2022: Thought provoking. We cannot afford to let Ukraine invasion become war fodder as we have done in relation to Syria, Yemen, Somali, Sudan, Mali and worst of all the plight of Afghanistan and the Taliban back to dehumanise people especially women. Never allow us to make statements like “enough war porn”. The world is in crisis. Energy Food shortages to starvation for some, and so much Poverty; we are not far away from it now. Inflation is soaring.

Kaja Kallas Prime Minister Estonia @kajakallas 14th June 2022 Today is the 81st anniversary of June 1941 mass deportation of

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