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Homeless man living up in the Dublin Mountains...

Darragh29 · 2008-12-23 19:00:10

Just saw this on RTE News. Is this not the coolest thing ever!?!?! He lives in a little shed half way up the Dublin Mountains, overlooking the whole city. No mortgage, no MBNA, no GE Money car HP, no Eircom, no estate management charges, none of this sh*te, just him and the animals and the remote countryside. I'd love to…

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Just saw this on RTE News. Is this not the coolest thing ever!?!?! He lives in a little shed half way up the Dublin Mountains, overlooking the whole city. No mortgage, no MBNA, no GE Money car HP, no Eircom, no estate management charges, none of this sh*te, just him and the animals and the remote countryside. I'd love to live like this, I might see if I can find him tomorrow and ask him would he like to swop places for the Crimbo and he can move in with my high maintenance sexy woman and I'll go live up in his shed for a week or two!

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#2 23-12-2008 7:01pm

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Did ya see the cut of him?

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#3 23-12-2008 7:03pm

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and one day we'll find him dead from pneumonia cool!!

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#4 23-12-2008 7:04pm

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Darragh29 wrote: »

Just saw this on RTE News. Is this not the coolest thing ever!?!?! He lives in a little shed half way up the Dublin Mountains, overlooking the whole city. No mortgage, no MBNA, no GE Money car HP, no Eircom, no estate management charges, none of this sh*te, just him and the animals and the remote countryside. I'd love to live like this, I might see if I can find him tomorrow and ask him would he like to swop places for the Crimbo and he can move in with my high maintenance sexy woman and I'll go live up in his shed for a week or two!

he's hardly homeless then, is he?

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#5 23-12-2008 7:07pm

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Why not try moving into your own garden shed down the end of the garden for a week and see how you like it?

I don't think the poor bugger was there by choice.

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#6 23-12-2008 7:07pm

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It's not homeless, it's Bohemian.

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#7 23-12-2008 7:07pm

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phantom_lord wrote: »

he's hardly homeless then, is he?

Well kind of! He seemed homeless, says he is homeless, I'd love to live like this. Every summer, I take my tent and my dog and head up the Dublin mountains and wander miles off road and live like a tramp for the weekend and I love it!

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#8 23-12-2008 7:07pm

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Darragh29 wrote: »

He lives in a little shed half way up the Dublin Mountains, overlooking the whole city.

Must be the better half of Tallaght.

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#9 23-12-2008 7:09pm

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God damn homeless lording it over us in their fancy shacks

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#10 23-12-2008 7:11pm

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He sounds like a bit of a legend.

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#11 23-12-2008 7:13pm

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Darragh29 wrote: »

Well kind of! He seemed homeless, says he is homeless, I'd love to live like this. Every summer, I take my tent and my dog and head up the Dublin mountains and wander miles off road and live like a tramp for the weekend and I love it!

I think the summer and weekend are the important bits there. Make it winter and always and I doubt you would still love it.

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#12 23-12-2008 7:14pm

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Niall09 wrote: »

Did ya see the cut of him?

Did he have a goatie and say he was interested in the paranormal ?

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#13 23-12-2008 7:16pm

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Homeless. yes.
Shedless, no.

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#14 23-12-2008 7:28pm

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Darragh29 wrote: »

Just saw this on RTE News. Is this not the coolest thing ever!?!?! He lives in a little shed half way up the Dublin Mountains, overlooking the whole city. No mortgage, no MBNA, no GE Money car HP, no Eircom, no estate management charges, none of this sh*te, just him and the animals and the remote countryside. I'd love to live like this, I might see if I can find him tomorrow and ask him would he like to swop places for the Crimbo and he can move in with my high maintenance sexy woman and I'll go live up in his shed for a week or two!

Pics of 'high maintenance sexy woman'?

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#15 23-12-2008 7:28pm

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I'd say there will be a lot more of us living in his shed by this time next year... If it all goes t*ts up for me, this is what I'm doing, up to Killakee, take over the Hell Hire Club, squatters rights in 12 years time, open a restaurant soup kitchen for the tallaght peasantry, happy days!

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#16 23-12-2008 7:31pm

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I think he's the anti-santa.

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#17 23-12-2008 7:31pm

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Poor fella:(

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#18 23-12-2008 7:33pm

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i have a shed in the back of my garden you can live in for a while if i can live in your house for a while with your high maintenaince woman..

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#19 23-12-2008 7:34pm

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I was hiking up there recently. Anybody who lives up there in a shed is mentally deranged, badly down on their luck or in possession of a thick outer layer of fur.

OP: most garden centres stock a wide variety of sheds. What are you waiting for?

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#20 23-12-2008 7:35pm

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fullstop wrote: »

Pics of 'high maintenance sexy woman'?

I'm only showing you folks a pic of her 'cos I am pished! This is her with an old friend...

She's gonna get the arse lashed off her tonight!

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#21 23-12-2008 7:36pm

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or maybe a divorced or seperated guy:cool:

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#22 23-12-2008 7:38pm

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Darragh29 wrote: »

I'm only showing you folks a pic of her 'cos I am pished! This is her with an old friend...

She's gonna get the arse lashed off her tonight!

Riiiiiiiiiight

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#23 23-12-2008 7:47pm

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living the dream !
up the middle with smoke.

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#24 23-12-2008 7:51pm

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MagicMarker wrote: »

I think he's the anti-santa.

No, but you're close, it's Seán FitzPatrick Chairman of Anglo Irish Bank, AKA The Anti-Santa.

He's fallen on hard times apparently....

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#25 23-12-2008 9:25pm

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Wonder what the guy has for dinner Christmas day, or any day for that matter. Must be rough.

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#26 23-12-2008 9:30pm

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themadchef wrote: »

Wonder what the guy has for dinner Christmas day, or any day for that matter. Must be rough.

A friend brings him up a Christmas dinner apparently, which he sits and eats while watching movies or listening to music

He's called Henry.

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#27 23-12-2008 9:43pm

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whilst the idea of what he does is is quite cool, it's one of those things that wouldnt work out in real life and when you're given no choice it's not quite cool at all. Poor guy.

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#28 23-12-2008 9:47pm

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emeraldstar wrote: »

A friend brings him up a Christmas dinner apparently, which he sits and eats while watching movies or listening to music

He's called Henry.

So where does his electricity come from if he's homeless?

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#29 23-12-2008 9:49pm

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Tough shít Henry.
In the land of 100,000 welcomes your are number 100,001.
Better luck next life.

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#30 23-12-2008 9:50pm

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nipplenuts wrote: »

So where does his electricity come from if he's homeless?

Good question. I thought I saw a radio on the report but he mentioned watching films so he's got some portable TV there.
Diesal generator I assume

Wonder will the TV licence inspector call around?
I realise he's probably exempt due to welfare

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#31 23-12-2008 9:51pm

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nipplenuts wrote: »

So where does his electricity come from if he's homeless?

Yeah, I dunno, hence the:

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#32 23-12-2008 9:59pm

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Darragh29 wrote: »

Just saw this on RTE News. Is this not the coolest thing ever!?!?! He lives in a little shed half way up the Dublin Mountains, overlooking the whole city. No mortgage, no MBNA, no GE Money car HP, no Eircom, no estate management charges, none of this sh*te, just him and the animals and the remote countryside. I'd love to live like this, I might see if I can find him tomorrow and ask him would he like to swop places for the Crimbo and he can move in with my high maintenance sexy woman and I'll go live up in his shed for a week or two!

Its only a lifestlye choice. If we don't watch it in 100 years we'll all be homeless and it will be the end of society as we know it.

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#33 23-12-2008 10:33pm

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Sangre wrote: »

Its only a lifestlye choice. If we don't watch it in 100 years we'll all be homeless and it will be the end of society as we know it.

Or it may not be a lifestyle choice. It could be just life circumstances which forced it.

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#34 23-12-2008 10:44pm

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Sangre wrote: »

Its only a lifestlye choice. If we don't watch it in 100 years we'll all be homeless and it will be the end of society as we know it.

So your saying that a certain group of people if left unchecked could bring the downfall of society.............

eh pope benedict is that you?

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#35 23-12-2008 11:03pm

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Darragh29 wrote: »

I'm only showing you folks a pic of her 'cos I am pished! This is her with an old friend...

She's gonna get the arse lashed off her tonight!

OWWWWW my eyes! MY EYES!!! :(:(

Cruel bastard! :mad:

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#36 23-12-2008 11:11pm

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He could be hiding from the Black and Tans. Someone should tell him that they've gone. :eek:

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#37 23-12-2008 11:21pm

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phasers wrote: »

God damn homeless lording it over us in their fancy shacks

LOL.
I for one welcome our new homeless overlords.

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#38 23-12-2008 11:41pm

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Darragh29 wrote: »

I'm only showing you folks a pic of her 'cos I am pished! This is her with an old friend...

She's gonna get the arse lashed off her tonight!

Good photoshop and all but that photo makes her at least 300lbs lighter looking!

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#39 23-12-2008 11:47pm

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Darragh29 wrote: »

I take my tent and my dog and head up the Dublin mountains and wander miles off road and live like a tramp for the weekend and I love it!

It's the dogs I feel sorry for!! Just because he doesn't say NO doesn't mean it's not rape!!

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#40 24-12-2008 12:32am

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Sangre wrote: »

If we don't watch it in 100 years we'll all be homeless

Or more likely, dead.

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#41 24-12-2008 12:57am

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Who? Buckle? He's there for years. Waiting for the apocolypse apparently.

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#42 24-12-2008 1:00am

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The apoyalapse is nigh, 21 dec 2012 apparently.

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#43 24-12-2008 1:40am

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trailerparkboy wrote: »

The apoyalapse is nigh, 21 dec 2012 apparently.

Holy crap, I'd want to start writing my will..

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#44 24-12-2008 1:58am

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One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode ...

I would say this man doesn't have a typical house, but this shed does happen to be his HOME...

A hermit maybe, homless no.

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#45 25-12-2008 9:18pm

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Was watching on RTE a piece about a homeless fella living up in the mountains near Dublin. But it got me thinking, with the uproar about foreigners claiming benefits, what is to stop these people from doing something similar? Surely, in this day and age, with people getting money for anything, no one should be homeless. Thoughts?

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#46 25-12-2008 9:32pm

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http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055447217

Not all homeless i assume would want to be homeless so i assume that the money isnt getting to the right place ?

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#47 25-12-2008 9:35pm

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m@cc@ wrote: »

Surely, in this day and age, with people getting money for anything

Eh... 'scuse me?

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#48 25-12-2008 9:36pm

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Threads merged.

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#49 25-12-2008 9:39pm

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MizzLolly wrote: »

Eh... 'scuse me?

Benefits-wise I meant, keep with the programme.

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