Accommodation in Dublin
Jan 8th, 2013 by Conor McCabe
Lettings Ireland bring this beautiful 1 bedroom apartment including parking, to let out immediately in this much sought after location.
Accommodation comprises of entrance hall, newly fitted kitchen, storage closet, bedroom with newly fitted electric shower in bathroom. The apartment is furnished with UPC digital TV and broadband installed.
This apartment is located in a quiet and secured area with. Located minutes from the City Centre, Drumcondra train station, St Pats college. The area is serviced by regular bus routes.
Viewing highly recommended, to arrange a viewing please do not hesitate to call Danny on 087 737 5182″
Sorry for going on about this but my God, this is just taking the piss.
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I’ve lived in bedsits around Drumcondra , not quite as cramped as this one appears to be though. During my time in Dublin I’ve viewed some bizzare places , from what seemed like a house\hotel out of a horror film on Clonliffe road replete with it’s own resident drunk in a stained vest to a flat on NCR in a stone floored basement. The latter had the outline of a man on the wall behind the bed where the smoke\grease\dirt couldn’t settle. A friend asked to come with me one Saturday because he wouldn’t believe the stories I was telling him. Greedy landlords have no shame when it comes to expecting a person to live in a cramped , shabby flat in Dublin. For a half decent flat you have to move into the €600 - €700 bracket.
And the country swimming in empty houses.
One of the big problems with bedsits is that yes, people will live in them. Landlords argue this point, but it’s a bit like saying that people will eat sawdust if food is scarce.
If there were no bedsits, there would have to be an actual housing plan for Dublin, hence why DCC tolerates them. If there were a housing plan, landlords and property magnates would lose out, hence they promote bedsits and doing nothing about accommodation or even public transport. And so Dublin grows bedsits like the bedsits grow mould.
I lived in Fitzwiliam St. in something as cramped as that for one year during my student years about 36 years ago; but I wouldn’t expect a working adult to endure such conditions. In the 1970s a booklet called Flat Broke was issued by the Dublin Flatdwellers Association (does it still exist?) and one of their leaders ran in a general election in South Central but got only a few hundred votes (John Fallon (?) - he drowned in a boating accident sometime later). Really, the political establishment doesn’t want to touch the rented ‘accommodation’ issue with a bargepole. Funks, all of them.
His name was in fact John Power, and he changed his name by deed poll so that the flatdwellers association name could appear on the ballot paper. He wore tinted glasses and a photograph of him wearing same appeared on election posters. When canvassing he and colleagues discovered that a lot of flatdwellers in Rathmines, Ranelagh and elsewhere were from other constituencies around the country and wouldn’t have been able to vote for him.