Ghost Estates
# ghost-estates - Friday 15 March, 2013
Minister for housing says ex-residents of Priory Hall are ‘in a dreadful situation’
Minister of State Jan O’Sullivan also spoke of Ireland’s ghost estates, the pyrite crisis, and her plans to end homelessness.
# ghost-estates - Saturday 1 December, 2012
Absent TDs, rapper dollars and ‘The Talk’: The week in numbers
What percentage of 13-year-old turn to their dads for sex and relationship advice? How many eggs narrowly missed Taoiseach Enda Kenny?
# ghost-estates - Thursday 29 November, 2012
Map, table: Ireland’s 16,881 vacant homes
Ireland’s problems with unfinished housing developments have improved but new figures from the National Housing Development Survey outline just how many vacant dwellings there are and where the problem is worst.
# ghost-estates - Saturday 20 October, 2012
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Roscommon man jumps for space to advertise his CV; the Prophet Seán Quinn; Enda having fun in Brussels.
# ghost-estates - Thursday 5 July, 2012
The Evening Fix: Thursday
Things we learned, loved and shared today.
Progress being made on ghost estates
Minister Jan O’Sullivan said today that some estates are finished and hundreds more are being worked on – but some will have to be demolished.
The 9 at 9: Thursday
Nine things to know this morning…
# ghost-estates - Thursday 28 June, 2012
Ghost estate turned into outdoor art exhibition
What would you do with Ireland’s ghost estates?
# ghost-estates - Tuesday 26 June, 2012
NAMA confirms plan to demolish derelict Longford apartment block
Will the demolition of 12 apartments outside Longford mark the start of a new nationwide programme of deconstruction?
# ghost-estates - Wednesday 23 May, 2012
NAMA to invest €2 billion in unfinished developments, new construction sites
Up to 25,000 construction jobs will be created, according to chairman Frank Daly.
# ghost-estates - Thursday 29 March, 2012
14.5 per cent of dwellings in Ireland vacant in Census 2011
Over one in five vacant properties were holiday homes, while the majority of the remainder were concentrated on rural areas in the west.
# ghost-estates - Saturday 24 March, 2012
Column: Here’s why we turn empty properties into art spaces
“Raise the shutters on a vacant unit, and life returns to an area”: Arts initiative PrettyvacanT Dublin on bringing energy through art back to abandoned buildings.
# ghost-estates - Monday 19 March, 2012
Nama to Nature: Why we are planting trees on ghost estates Exclusive
Group of friends urge fellow citizens to help Ireland’s 600 ghost estates return to nature rather than blight the landscape – Frank Armstrong describes one guerilla planting session in Co Leitrim.
# ghost-estates - Thursday 15 March, 2012
Ghost estates brought to book in post-Tiger exhibition
Art initiative PrettyvacanT Dublin is repurposing empty spaces for cultural purposes – its latest show responds to “post-Crash Ireland”.
# ghost-estates - Monday 26 December, 2011
We’re not the only ones – China has ghost estates too
The country has whole ‘ghost cities’ as well!
# ghost-estates - Wednesday 21 December, 2011
The Daily Fix: Wednesday
In tonight’s Fix: Facebook to make major changes after Irish investigation; a possible solution for ghost estates; and the worst delivery man you’ll see today.
# ghost-estates - Thursday 13 October, 2011
Take 5: Thursday
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
Review of ghost estates finds over 2,000 unfinished developments in Ireland
The latests National Housing Survey involved inspections of 2,876 developments around the country.
# ghost-estates - Monday 19 September, 2011
# ghost-estates - Monday 12 September, 2011
Housing conference told: ‘We’ll need to build more new houses’
The National Housing Conference is told that the growing population will require 30,000 new houses every year from 2012.
# ghost-estates - Friday 2 September, 2011
WATCH: Here’s an idea for what to do with unused construction sites…
One savvy operator has started a ‘grown-up sandpit’ – where users pay to play with full-size diggers and bulldozers.
# ghost-estates - Monday 25 July, 2011
Column: Portugal and Ireland have much in common… and we both need a leg-up
On a visit to Portugal, former trader Nick Leeson finds a country that will find it more difficult to recover than Ireland – and shows that Moody’s got our credit rating dive wrong.
# ghost-estates - Saturday 16 July, 2011
The Daily Fix: Saturday
In your Fix for today: A cheaper route to Dublin airport?; the end of the World; a remorseful Archbishop; how the Taoiseach is spending his weekend; and why Ken Doherty has an issue with neck ties.
NAMA to invest €3m in ‘urgent’ ghost estate work
The national bad bank says it’s funding ‘urgent construction’ in ghost estates linked to the loans it holds.
# ghost-estates - Thursday 14 July, 2011
Column: ‘They’re like war zones’ – the bleak reality of Ireland’s ghost estates
Photographer Anthony Haughey travelled around the country visiting unfinished developments. It was an eerie experience, as these pictures make clear.
# ghost-estates - Friday 24 June, 2011
The Daily Fix: Friday
In your evening wrap-up: Does the DAA chief deserve a bonus? How is Ireland so good at boxing? And shouldn’t they have called the movie The Anti-Social Network?
# ghost-estates - Thursday 9 June, 2011
Committee set up to deal with ‘ghost estates’ in Ireland
The latest figures show that there are over 23,000 complete and vacant dwellings in Ireland with nearly 10,000 near completion.
# ghost-estates - Friday 6 May, 2011
The 9 at 9: Friday
Nine things you need to know by 9am: Photos emerge from the Osama compound – but none of the dead look like Osama; Obama to address crowds at O’Connell Street; and Matthew Elderfield gives bank boards their notice.
# ghost-estates - Wednesday 16 March, 2011
# ghost-estates - Friday 18 February, 2011
Poll: What should be done about Ireland’s ghost estates?
The latest figures on the ghost estate crisis reveal that 348 ghost estates have been abandoned by developers. We want to know what you think should be done with them.
The 9 at 9: Friday
Nine things to know this morning, including: €5m funding for ghost estate issues; GE11 campaigns focus on jobs and constitutional reform; and private investigator believe Madeleine McCann is in the US.
# ghost-estates - Monday 20 December, 2010
Spain suffering from the blight of the ghost estate
In Spain, huge projects are completely empty and bad debts mounts as the Spanish banks play extend-and-pretend with developers. That game is about to end.
# ghost-estates - Friday 26 November, 2010
Poll: Should we care what the international community thinks of us?
Joan Burton has asked people planning to attend tomorrow’s protest not to provide “photo fodder” to international media. What do you think?
# ghost-estates - Tuesday 26 October, 2010
# ghost-estates - Friday 22 October, 2010
Developers will be forced to finish ‘ghost estates’
An expert group will tackle the problem of the 2,800 ghost estates littered across the country.
# ghost-estates - Thursday 21 October, 2010
Ireland remains haunted by 2,800 ‘ghost’ estates
A nationwide survey identifies 2,800 vacant or unfinished housing estates across Ireland – with 20,000 unfinished houses.
























































