131 edifici abbandonati registrati nella città di Dublino

Surprised it’s not more to be honest.

Seems low but I guess it has to meet their definition of derelict.

A count of vacant buildings would be very interesting.

>However, co-founder of the Derelict Ireland movement, Dr Frank O’Connor, has said that the number does not reflect the reality of dereliction in the capital.

>”You’ll find there’s a huge inconsistency across the country in terms of how local authorities tackle dereliction,” he said.

>”From our work across the country, we generally find that the recorded numbers of derelict properties are far lower than the actual number, and from the data we have collected, Dublin is no different.

>”We see so much dereliction in Dublin, and it has a huge impact on the community. They lose out on the potential that property could offer to the area. I don’ think there has been the cultural or political will to tackle the issue for the last number of decades, but that is starting to change. If you chat to people on the street now, they want change.”

Imagine being so shameless as to deny the numbers to keep your pet project going.

seems very low.

My partner and I were looking buy our first home earlier this year. We seen this [cottage](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Whitehall+Rd,+Dublin/@53.3090637,-6.314854,3a,76.3y,342.48h,91.43t/data=!3m10!1e1!3m8!1s2WdfkDh1Tee4EqSorossSQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-1.4317938478979215%26panoid%3D2WdfkDh1Tee4EqSorossSQ%26yaw%3D342.4844790287927!7i16384!8i8192!9m2!1b1!2i37!4m6!3m5!1s0x48670b809cd4d5e3:0x3c90dfa022bcee13!8m2!3d53.3099467!4d-6.3118521!16s%2Fg%2F1tgb6s4d?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDczMC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D) out in the Terenure area that looked great in the [advert](https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/115-whitehall-road-terenure-dublin-12/4687304). It looked like it needed some modernisation, but all in all it seemed like a livable home that we could move into.

It was a completely different state when we went to see it. Ceilings falling through in most of the rooms. Floor boards completely gone to the point you’d have to walk on the joists to get around the place. Holes, leaks, broken glass everywhere. It was completely derelict.

The kicker was that when we looked up the [history of the place](https://mynest.ie/listing/64325/Dublin/115-whitehall-road-terenure-dublin-12-d12y7c1), it had been bought less than a year prior for 600k, and was currently on sale for 695k. Whoever owned the place was looking to get paid the difference for completely decimating a house through and through.

People have to start being held accountable for this sort of antisocial behaviour, especially in the middle of a housing crisis

Walking down O’Connell street yesterday and it looked like a window from the fourth floor of a building came loose and smashed on the ground. The area was cordoned off for a few hours. Very lucky that no one was hurt.