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After having just survived the no confidence vote, Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy TD ignored Charlie Flanagan's offered handshake to congratulate him, making Charlie look the fool! Seems there is animosity between the two and a source "high up in Fine Gael" seems to suggest Minister for Immigration, Charlie Flanagan's refugee crisis is being blamed for the housing crisis, and thus the reason for the no confidence vote...

Another cold night in Dublin and the dedicated Cathrine is out there again bringing the hidden unwanted Irish to our attention. Jody, an 18 year old school students is out there regularly doing what she can to help. We also visit another church offering temporary refuge and meet a homeless lady literally counting the pennies…

Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-hkea3-c2279b Aoife and Eina talk about how they get by on a single income with kids, the sacrifices they had to make, the advantages to doing it this way, and what they're seeing from their friends who held off on having children until they could afford a certain lifestyle.

I make the case that Irish people will become a minority in Ireland within the next 50 years based on the evidence available.

Micheal Martin first tries to ignore then and then runs away when asked about the housing crisis, TUSLA and Mary Boyle…  

Claire Byrne from RTÉ News At One spoke to Robert Shortt, RTÉ’s Economics Correspondent about the latest figures on immigration and employment from the CSO. The figures showed the number of people employed in the economy are falling. On an annual basis there were 45,000 more people in employment at the end of June but […]

Alchemy Radio interview Ben Gilroy in what turns out to be a good catch up interview.

From 1840s until 1970s Dublin was blighted with the worst slums in all of Europe. Generation after generation of poor Dubliners would be forced into the disease ridden tenements to survive. This is the first documentary of note to tackle this sad and under-reported subject. This episode deals with the beginnings of the slums in the 18th and 19th century and introduces the Winston family, one of the last families to live on Henrietta street.

A look at the critical state of public housing in Dublin in 1964. Reporter John O’Donoghue talks to people who are being moved from their city centre homes to new houses in the suburbs. The film opens with a row of dilapidated cottages in Dublin city centre. Reporter John O’Donoghue describes how people have been moving out of these cottages to new homes. There are various shots of run down Georgian houses in Dublin. John O’Donoghue talks with women who are being moved out of their city centre homes which have been condemned and with families who are being housed in an army barracks by the Dublin Health Authority. They describe the conditions they are living in and their chances of getting a home of their own. John O’Donoghue talks to one man who moved out of the barracks because of the conditions there and is now living in a tent to protest at the lack of housing in Dublin. A woman describes how she and her husband moved back from England but has not been able to get a house and now two of her children are sick in hospital. The final part of the film looks at newly built corporation houses in Finglas and talks to the residents who have moved there from the city centre. The families speak about their new lives and new homes.