18 Comments

  1. There’s popular political capital in being vocal about these things. They shout for a few days and then the hype dies down.

  2. Electronic_Motor_968 on

    To be fair this could be a real headline if any of the media had the balls to print it.

  3. The boring answer is that politicians do what voters want.

    Voters want homelessness to end.

    Voters do not want the solutions implemented to end homelessness.

    Politicians try and guess which matters more to voters.

  4. Commercial_Gold_9699 on

    No difference to dynamic pricing in flying, hotels etc unfortunately. Customer always gets screwed.

  5. Also, something hilariously ironic about FG politicians taken a stand on this when they are big proponents of the so called free market….

    Easy points scoring exercise I suppose

  6. Remember how vocal various politicians were when the cost of living crisis started and supermarket prices were going through the roof? They said it was unacceptable, bla bla bla, supermarkets would be investigated..bla bla bla. It died down and then what happened..the same as always, nothing. Ticketmaster can fuck right off and tbh is it even guaranteed that Oasis can do a gig without battering each other ?!

  7. People still bought tickets though?

    If it shows anything people are willing to spend.

    Rental market rate increase incoming 📈

  8. We just need FG in power for another 14 years and tickets for Oasis 2040 will be reasonably priced.

  9. demonspawns_ghost on

    I think it’s important to remember that 14.4k figure is for people in emergency accommodation. I went to the council earlier this year to see if I could get a place, they said there was nothing. I asked if there was a waiting list, they said no. So now I live in a derelict house out in the country with no running water or mains electricity. Could be worse, I suppose.

  10. There’s a certain irony about people complaining about this here, seeing as r/ireland has been occasionally known to look down on the homeless as well.

  11. There is genuienly a serious discussion to be had about how ridiculously far in advance everything gets booked/sold out in Ireland. It’s not normal!

  12. Just roll with it..it’s their masterplan to get the youth to vote for them, so they can keep on travelling all around the world at the tax payers expensive.