'Despair' over home for kids.

wingnut

Anyone catch this in the leader. She is despairing because her kids share a room:

"Having a 13 year old, and an 18-month-old sleeping in the same room is just wrong. It is just not on"

http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/local/limerick-s-serinna-in-despair-over-home-for-kids-1-3764536

This is crazy!! How many of us grew up sharing rooms!

zuroph

4 kids, 3 bed house, plenty of room. Plus, while in such a terrible living condition, she's decided to have another kid.
Amazing too how adhd its so much more prevalent in low income areas

black & white

She says her kids were at risk from Carbon Monoxide poisoning for 18 months. What responsible parent would stay in the house if this was the case ?

MarkR

Two boys in one room. I assume two girls in the other (guessing from the age gap of the boys).

Could she not keep the baby in her room?

Anyway, first world problems..

howamidifferent

I grew up in a 2 bed house. I'm one of 11 kids. We ALL shared a single room.
What planet is this sponger on???

banie01

I grew up the eldest of 8, in a 2 bedroomed house!
At one stage 5 of us shared a bedroom that was subsequently divided to allow boys room/Girls room.
This is a total non-issue, if you have 'space constraints' stop having kids....
Or buy a bigger home, rather than wait for the state to fund 1 for you!
And if you can't afford the 'space' you feel you need.....
THEN DON'T HAVE MORE KID'S

Indeed if circumstances are that bad, would it not be more prudent to practice better contraception rather than act like you have some kind of 'entitlement' due to a big family?
Or depend on the council to give you a bigger home?

If big families = automatic entitlement to big Council funded houses.....
An awful lot of my neighbours on the corporation estate I grew up on are owed mansions!!!
Including my Ma!

steveon

Sick of these people ...go get a job pay a mortgage like the rest of us and when your struggling you wont get no help whatsoever from any1.

My parents brought 5 of us up in 3 rooms one which was sub divided for my only sister and we all got on just fine. If some1 gave me a free house for a low rental like all council tenants Id be more than grateful....

Time for people to start living in the real world.

nicechick!

you know what words can't describe what I think of this! :mad:

mawk

could we not just give her five nama houses? shure, its the only fair thing

Berty

I think people like this need a rude awakening. They somehow believe that the council is there first and foremost to provide them an existence, the welfare system to pay for their everyday means and the health service to cure all their woes.

I know a girl whom has a 2 bed house and had one child. She had another child and said openly "I will get the council to give me another house when I have the child, sure they couldn't expect me to live in a house not fit for the size of my family"

*SHAKES HER SHOULDERS(In my mind)

GET YOUR OWN HOUSE OR STOP HAVING CHILDREN

Mance Rayder

Beer Baron wrote: »

I think people like this need a rude awakening. They somehow believe that the council is there first and foremost to provide them an existence, the welfare system to pay for their everyday means and the health service to cure all their woes.

I know a girl whom has a 2 bed house and had one child. She had another child and said openly "I will get the council to give me another house when I have the child, sure they couldn't expect me to live in a house not fit for the size of my family"

*SHAKES HER SHOULDERS(In my mind)

GET YOUR OWN HOUSE OR STOP HAVING CHILDREN

100% correct. This is scourge on our society and is the source of 99% of our anti social behavior problems and drinking culture. It is also a key player in the cause of our massive unsustainability.


These poeple live in a bubble and honestly believe that it is their god given right to a free ride. They have invested nothing in society and therefore care nothing for it. They are untouchable in their minds, and all those "snobs" who fund their existance are just "stuck up"....

My estate is full of them ,and my my!They can afford to party all weekend long and keep everyone else up till all hours with their noise and techno sh!te music. They continue to pump out future criminals.

Thankfully , it's only a matter of time before their bubble bursts.

Berty

Hang on a minute Cisco I want to distance myself from your comments.

I'm not saying this person does not contribute to society. She does but she hasn't been able to shake the dependency on the state or the council. I don't know why but it must be because her mother is a council tenant along with 90% of her immediate family.

She did come into money a few years back and the room fell silent when I had the cheek to say

"That's handy, you can put a deposit on a house"
"Why, I have a house already"
"Yes but you're not going to live in a council house forever"
"Why not?"

Best left it at that was my thoughts on the matter.

Now her kids are great and I doubt they will be trouble. Why? Because she is a good person and will bring them up with the best intentions. There certainly is a minority out there in council estates that are the opposite and will take take and take and take some of your stuff as well but that's a deviation from the original point of the thread and article really.

I lived in a council estate for a few years and I wouldn't cast any aspersions on anybody living in one without knowing the person and I back that up because my original comment referred to somebody I specifically know.

I'm just constantly annoyed by the horrible downward spiral people allow themselves to be caught up in.

Mance Rayder

Beer Baron wrote: »

Hang on a minute Cisco I want to distance myself from your comments.

I'm not saying this person does not contribute to society. She does but she hasn't been able to shake the dependency on the state or the council. I don't know why but it must be because her mother is a council tenant along with 90% of her immediate family.

She did come into money a few years back and the room fell silent when I had the cheek to say

"That's handy, you can put a deposit on a house"
"Why, I have a house already"
"Yes but you're not going to live in a council house forever"
"Why not?"

Best left it at that was my thoughts on the matter.

Now her kids are great and I doubt they will be trouble. Why? Because she is a good person and will bring them up with the best intentions. There certainly is a minority out there in council estates that are the opposite and will take take and take and take some of your stuff as well but that's a deviation from the original point of the thread and article really.

I lived in a council estate for a few years and I wouldn't cast any aspersions on anybody living in one without knowing the person and I back that up because my original comment referred to somebody I specifically know.

I'm just constantly annoyed by the horrible downward spiral people allow themselves to be caught up in.

Yeah I over reacted and went off on one there.

I am from the council estates of Dublins Northside and I still am, There are lots and lots of great decent people here of course, but it's the ones that take the p!ss out of the system that is there for the benifit of the poor that really just gets my blood boiling.

mikemac1

Never heard of bunk beds then

krudler

eh, stop having kids? fcuking hell did personal responsibility go into recession in this country as well? stop breeding and expecting other people to pay for it

europa11

black & white wrote: »

She says her kids were at risk from Carbon Monoxide poisoning for 18 months. What responsible parent would stay in the house if this was the case ?

Wonder if that's why "Daddy" moved out :rolleyes:

How nice to see that Mayor Jimbo will give her 90 minutes of his valuable time to discuss her shocking dilemma. Perhaps a visit to the local family planning clinic can also be arranged before she flies off on her holiday (according to her Facebook page).

And it says a lot about the "Limerick Leader" that they can find no reason to criticise these Entitlements Junkies, but rather facilitate their constant whining for more, more, more from the ever brow-beaten tax and ratepayers. Keep having those kids love....the mugs love paying for your fun.

No wonder the Entitlements crowd love to chant "you're paying for it" at every given opportunity.:mad:

phill106

Reminds me of a little poem I read, Which of course no way describes that woman.


<snip>

LadyTBolt

'Attic conversion', 'Extension' springs to mind if things are that bad. Foresake the holiday and contribute to a renovation to the property.

Who does this person think she? Cracks me well up. I think her publicity stunt will backfire.

Poxyshamrock

LadyTBolt wrote: »

. I think her publicity stunt will backfire.

Judging by the comments on here and the Limerick Leader site, it looks like it already has backfired.

banie01

The lady whom is the centre of this article will be on Niall Boylans Late Show on 4FM later, should be interesting when the call in starts.
A show with herself and Killiney 2 would be a very interesting show

ZombieBride

There were 4 of us in one room growing up, it taught us to put our stuff away before someone robbed your socks, but did me no harm, nor did it any harm to the vast majority of people I know that shared rooms growing up. First world woes.

zuroph

The fact that she's been campaigning for a bigger house since long before the 18 month old came along makes her look even more selfish.
Is there a link to the Facebook campaign?

bullets

Mmmmmm first thought that pop'd into my head was:


If she's looking for sympathy it can be found in the dictionary
between the words **** and Syphilis.

Bah Humbug
~B

Less PC over on AH
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056615823

krudler

she's on 4FM right now, hilarity will ensue

ninty9er

krudler wrote: »

she's on 4FM right now, hilarity will ensue

How did that go then?

jbkenn

Contrast, I went for a pint tonight and met a friend, married with 3 children, a mortgage and all the trimmings, who was made redundant four weeks ago, the good news, he got a job, ecstatic, unfortunately the new job will entail a 200Km daily commute, possibly a couple of over nights, oh, and, as they only have one car, he needs to buy a second car with all the attendant costs, but hey, it's what you do, right, contribute to society, pay your way, we were joined by one of his former colleagues who has not found employment yet, and feels embarrassed that he is now drawing welfare, welfare that after many years paying for, he is more than entitled to, but hey, he also foolishly feels he has to contribute to society, right, it is what you do.

Then we have this useless piece of lowlife, a rabbit factory, with an entitlement culture as part of her DNA, well, **** You lady, and **** the jockey, who ****ed you, and landed the rest of us with the bill.
Family Planning Clinic?, she should be sterilised, Limerick Family Planning Clinic has battled long and hard to promote responsible parenthood, it has had to deal over the years with religious prejudice, ignorance and bigotry, hell, a member of a Religious Order could rape a schoolchild, but he could'nt use a condom, because his Order made sure they were not available in this country.

I know the "Journalist" who wrote this story, and, will contact him tomorrow, and ask him to explain himself, I will also be asking for a meeting with the ****wit "Editor" of the Limerick Leader, who seems to think that his mission in life is to drag this city into the gutter.

Citizens of Limerick, those of you that pick up the tab, time to stand up and be counted, enough.

fl4pj4ck

ninty9er wrote: »

How did that go then?

she went on with how she's "entitled" to a bigger house, and that the Council has lots money that is hiding from people like her, and this money should be used to make people like her happy, because, you know, it's Council job to make her happy, like, you know, she's entitled to

this and shouting at everyone who ring the station and putting words into their mouths

gaf1983

jbkenn wrote: »

I know the "Journalist" who wrote this story, and, will contact him tomorrow, and ask him to explain himself, I will also be asking for a meeting with the ****wit "Editor" of the Limerick Leader, who seems to think that his mission in life is to drag this city into the gutter.

Why do you have a problem with the paper for publishing the story? Yes, it's a one-sided interview, but I don't think the article ever set out to do anything else, and it has provoked debate and focus on the issue, which is a good thing, surely?

krudler

listened to it last night, she didn herself no favours by just being agressive and shouting down anyone who challenged her. its just the I want I want culture these days. she makes nearly twice as much as I do a year from handouts and entitlements and I'm working full time.

scholar007

CiscoStudent wrote: »

These poeple live in a bubble and honestly believe that it is their god given right to a free ride.

Unfortuantely, its the riding that appears to be causing all the problems!

bazz26

Ah yes, the social welfare generation, alive and well. It's the whole social welfare system that needs to be overhauled. This country can no longer afford to be bled dry by these leaches of society who think they can eek through life at the expense of the State.

Of course this will not happen, we can already see this in that they are exempt from the likes of the household and pending water charges while the tax payer has to pick up the bill as usual.

HigginsJ

You read it :mad:, you sigh and your shoulders sag.

What a country we live in.

People should have to apply for a licence to have chilldren. There is a forum on under the post on the Leader website where she says she can barely afford to go on holidays this year. These people really need a realiy check. Its ridiculous.

AnCapaillMor

I said it before a dude i know used to work with the housing scheme with the council. People would flat out turn down houses because they didn't like kitchen or the shower wasn't big enough, etc etc. He even told me some stories where they said tough take the house or leave it. within the next few days before the people moved in the house would be mysteriously broken into and the kitchen or some other room would be trashed and the councill would need to set up a new kitchen\room before the people moved in. This happens on a regular basis according to him.

There was another story of a guy who got a council house, basically stripped it out got new doors, windows, did up the rooms, he spent at least 20-25k on doing up the house. Ok fair play he paid for it himself but if you can afford to splash 25K on doors and furniture why are you getting a council house.

This stuff boils my blood and don't even get me started on the unemployment.

Raiser

A room for every child? As long as she has such a healthy sense of entitlement and such a healthy uterus I'd say they'd just better give her the Two Mile Inn....

- Right now somewhere in Limerick there's a Community Welfare Officer on 100K+ p.a. busily signing off on an array of random 'binifits' to this type of agenda so people with a career PPS no. can live Hollywood lifestyles no longer affordable to the PAYE worker.

People who actually work never get to see their own 2/3 kids as they're off paying a mortgage and paying the creche and paying the newest invented tax by another name dreamed up by our idiot Government so the Dutch Gold generation can either sit in Santa Ponsa or sit outside HMV.

P.S. Fair play to her for flying out to China to pester Jim Long though all the same.

P.P.S. From her Twitter page - 'Expecting' how apt.....

bigpink

Any link to her on 4fm or Spin South West Talk

token101

Raiser wrote: »

A room for every child? As long as she has such a healthy sense of entitlement and such a healthy uterus I'd say they'd just better give her the Two Mile Inn....

- Right now somewhere in Limerick there's a Community Welfare Officer on 100K+ p.a. busily signing off on an array of random 'binifits' to this type of agenda so people with a career PPS no. can live Hollywood lifestyles no longer affordable to the PAYE worker.

People who actually work never get to see their own 2/3 kids as they're off paying a mortgage and paying the creche and paying the newest invented tax by another name dreamed up by our idiot Government so the Dutch Gold generation can either sit in Santa Ponsa or sit outside HMV.

P.S. Fair play to her for flying out to China to pester Jim Long though all the same.

P.P.S. From her Twitter page - 'Expecting' how apt.....

1001 Baby names eh? She'll be looking for a gaff the size of Hogwarts next the deadbeat waste of space. Where do these people come from? Are they just raised to be parasites or what?

EMTFlynn

How will she afford her midwife/nursing course in UL? :mad:

My friend had to go to London to do her nursing course because she couldn't get in here!

donutheadhomer

mikemac1 wrote: »

Never heard of bunk beds then

for the parents I hope....... might stop them breeding more kids

Rocky_Dennis

EMTFlynn wrote: »

How will she afford her midwife/nursing course in UL? :mad:

My friend had to go to London to do her nursing course because she couldn't get in here!

If you are going back to college as a mature student, you can apply to the City/County Council for a grant that will fund you to do the course.

ninty9er

EMTFlynn wrote: »

How will she afford her midwife/nursing course in UL? :mad:

My friend had to go to London to do her nursing course because she couldn't get in here!

Honestly, so long as she does the course and is trying to better herself I couldn't care less if she gets back to education allowance and her fees paid, at least that shows cause and some effort at establishing a career and providing for her kids.

However, it still doesn't entitle her to a bigger house at the taxpayers expense.

My aunt took offence when I said that the 10 of them were raised in a 2 bed house. She said there were 3 bedrooms, the 3rd just doubled as a parlour/hallway during the day.

banie01

http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/local/limerick-s-serinna-in-despair-over-home-for-kids-1-3764536
I see that after making an absolute balls of their attempts to moderate the comments on the article, that the Leader seems to have decided to cut its losses and remove the article!

Cached version here in case anyone missed it.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KqsxUpHx790J:www.limerickleader.ie/news/local/limerick-s-serinna-in-despair-over-home-for-kids-1-3764536+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ie

Kess73

Another guy on the radio this morning who has 8 kids, and who says that the likes of him should receive special treatment when it comes to housing.

AnCapaillMor

He needs special treatment alright and it involves a shears instead of a house.

europa11

Had the misfortune to be in a premises this morning that play Limerick95 eff'em - water dripping torture probably isn't having the desired effect on the workforce.

Anyway, I digress, heard this "Joe" presenter egging on support for Ms. Corbett, playing phone-ins of sympathetic callers to her "plight" non-stop and asking for more while making spurious claims regarding ADHD. Then he began interviewing this other character (mentioned above) who wants us to fork out for a new home his 8 kids, last I heard before getting out for air was this latest claim merchant telling the listeners that he had been picketing City Hall in an "alluminus yella jacket" since St. Patricks Day and would stay there until he got his new house. Beats working I guess.

That show presenter sounded like a cheerleader for the entitlements culture, not once questioning him as regards how he was funding himself or his 8 sprogs for the past 5 weeks of picketing, even if we all knew who was paying for him during his "protest" I'd have liked to hear at least one acknowledgement for the forgotten taxpayer.

Hardly "available for work" either by the sounds of it, was he? Doesn't that break the dole rules?

donutheadhomer

europa11 wrote: »

Had the misfortune to be in a premises this morning that play Limerick95 eff'em - water dripping torture probably isn't having the desired effect on the workforce.

Anyway, I digress, heard this "Joe" presenter egging on support for Ms. Corbett, playing phone-ins of sympathetic callers to her "plight" non-stop and asking for more while making spurious claims regarding ADHD. Then he began interviewing this other character (mentioned above) who wants us to fork out for a new home his 8 kids, last I heard before getting out for air was this latest claim merchant telling the listeners that he had been picketing City Hall in an "alluminus yella jacket" since St. Patricks Day and would stay there until he got his new house. Beats working I guess.

That show presenter sounded like a cheerleader for the entitlements culture, not once questioning him as regards how he was funding himself or his 8 sprogs for the past 5 weeks of picketing, even if we all knew who was paying for him during his "protest" I'd have liked to hear at least one acknowledgement for the forgotten taxpayer.

Hardly "available for work" either by the sounds of it, was he? Doesn't that break the dole rules?

It seems to break the dole rules

If you are out of work as a result of a strike (if, for example, you have been laid off), you are however in a different position. You may qualify for Jobseeker's Benefit if you are "not participating in or directly interested in the trade dispute which caused the stoppage at work". - http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/social_welfare/social_welfare_payments/unemployed_people/jobseekers_benefit.html

Kess73

europa11 wrote: »

Had the misfortune to be in a premises this morning that play Limerick95 eff'em - water dripping torture probably isn't having the desired effect on the workforce.

Anyway, I digress, heard this "Joe" presenter egging on support for Ms. Corbett, playing phone-ins of sympathetic callers to her "plight" non-stop and asking for more while making spurious claims regarding ADHD. Then he began interviewing this other character (mentioned above) who wants us to fork out for a new home his 8 kids, last I heard before getting out for air was this latest claim merchant telling the listeners that he had been picketing City Hall in an "alluminus yella jacket" since St. Patricks Day and would stay there until he got his new house. Beats working I guess.

That show presenter sounded like a cheerleader for the entitlements culture, not once questioning him as regards how he was funding himself or his 8 sprogs for the past 5 weeks of picketing, even if we all knew who was paying for him during his "protest" I'd have liked to hear at least one acknowledgement for the forgotten taxpayer.

Hardly "available for work" either by the sounds of it, was he? Doesn't that break the dole rules?

That is actually a good point. One of the guys who was protesting against household charge had a few days dole stopped because he was protesting outside the Dail whilst on the dole. A few of the papers ran the story a few weeks back. Basically the logic behind he getting his dole docked was that if he (the unemployed man) had the time to protest, then he should have been using that time to job seek and was not available for potential work due to him being at a protest.

The flip side of that would be that if that rule was followed, then no umemployed person could do anything during office hours other than job search as they would be breaking the rules if they did their weekly shopping etc as technically they were not available to worl whilst doing the shopping.

slarkin123

fl4pj4ck wrote: »

ninty9er wrote: »

How did that go then?

she went on with how she's "entitled" to a bigger house, and that the Council has lots money that is hiding from people like her, and this money should be used to make people like her happy, because, you know, it's Council job to make her happy, like, you know, she's entitled to

this and shouting at everyone who ring the station and putting words into their mouths

Maybe the council are hiding the money cause they're sick to death if handing it over to the likes of her. People who think they're entitled to have everything paid for without lifting a finger to help themselves.

slarkin123

mikemac1 wrote: »

Never heard of bunk beds then

Dam my two sons went into bunk beds yesterday. Maybe i should be hounding the council for a 4 bed house. I'll swap them my 3 bed privately owned one.

donutheadhomer

Kess73 wrote: »

That is actually a good point. One of the guys who was protesting against household charge had a few days dole stopped because he was protesting outside the Dail whilst on the dole. A few of the papers ran the story a few weeks back. Basically the logic behind he getting his dole docked was that if he (the unemployed man) had the time to protest, then he should have been using that time to job seek and was not available for potential work due to him being at a protest.

The flip side of that would be that if that rule was followed, then no umemployed person could do anything during office hours other than job search as they would be breaking the rules if they did their weekly shopping etc as technically they were not available to worl whilst doing the shopping.

someone should report this to social welfare and get benefits stopped while on this protest as he is clearly not available for work/looking for work if spending all day outside the council offices

bazz26

I see another leach is at it now:
http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/jobless-dad-of-eight-criticises-limerick-council-over-housing-549255.html

8 kids, wants more babies like it's a hobby and then expects a bigger house as it's his constitutional right! Maybe he should spend a bit more time upskilling rather than breeding like rabbits and expecting the tax payer to pay for their upkeep.

phill106

bazz26 wrote: »

I see another leach is at it now:
http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/jobless-dad-of-eight-criticises-limerick-council-over-housing-549255.html

8 kids, wants more babies like it's a hobby and then expects a bigger house as it's his constitutional right! Maybe he should spend a bit more time upskilling rather than breeding like rabbits and expecting the tax payer to pay for their upkeep.

Probably no time to find a job because of all the riiiidddddinnnnn