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It's a holiday village; it was never built as regular housing. The article specifically calls it a holiday village.

Councillors are not "claiming it for IPAS" either, the holiday village owner offered it for such.

IPAS applicants are not, ever, anywhere, housed in conventional social housing.

Can people not ask questions, or inquire about things? I previously stated that I'm not an expert in these matters, so yes it is obvious from my previous posts. Thank you for reading them, and Im sorry you are so upset about all this.

My god, I never said they were. You are one of the reasons we cannot have mature discussions in this country because you deliberately misrepresent what is being said. You stated that "IPAS applicants are housed in places with catering etc, not houses/apartments." Regardless of what it's called the village in Kippure consists of regular houses, this was the only point that I was making. I only made it as the point you made wasn't entirely accurate in saying that houses/apartments weren't used. The Avon Ri in Blessington has houses built around it, too. These were rented out as regular housing after the crash, and lived in for many years by some tenants but this ended slowly, and they're being used for emergency accommodation now too.

Again I never said it would be used for that purpose you are bringing us down that path again and again, you made an ill-informed comment that houses and apartments are not used for IPAS and then switched or clarified to saying social housing was never used for this purpose and I believe you but I was responding to your original claim. I never asked any questions either I just made the point and you pursued your agenda of making this out to be something it's not!

I've seen similar reports elsewhere - it looks like there's a general visibility push on

The canal has never closed and the surface is wet. Almost water like, you could say. 😉

Had some fun entertainment yesterday watching 2 Northern Irish sounding builders working on the Mill St improvements having an 'animated' debate with a traffic warden, who'd ticketed their obvious Glas branded work vans, that they'd parked in the spaces in front of Delhi Darber.

Not sure who was right or wrong - I mean its right where they are working, but they are still officially street parking, but tickets were still on an hour later, after warden took some lets sat serious debate

It's incredibly congested there with the works, not to mention dangerous for cyclists and pedestrians. Glas have a huge compound behind the church and they should have parked there.

I'm surprised to hear there are traffic wardens.. the Apache delivery drivers park on the footpath and block most of it, but that doesn't seem to be breaking any rules.

is the golden palace still open? couldn't find barely any info on it online or on justeat etc. or is it only take away no delivery?