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10/12/2025

The Department of Housing has officially deleted their “Living at Home with Your Parents” campaign.

For many of us, the messaging felt patronising — offering advice like “wash the dishes” and “keep your room tidy” to adults who are living at home because the housing system has failed them, not because of household habits.

This crisis isn’t about attitude.
It’s about access to homes, fair mortgage pathways, and the ability to live independently.

Deleting the campaign was the right step, but Ireland needs real solutions, not tone-deaf PR.

09/12/2025

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09/12/2025

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09/12/2025

In August 2022, I contributed to an article in the Irish Examiner highlighting the rental crisis unfolding in my home county.

The piece featured insights from auctioneer Gary O’Driscoll and then-Mayor Mikey Sheehy — and I shared my own experience of what it was like to be forced to move back home at 42 years of age because of the housing situation in Ireland.

I spoke openly about the reality that many don’t see:

• I was unable to secure a mortgage, not because I couldn’t manage repayments, but because my chronic health condition meant I wasn’t considered “mortgage-worthy.”

• I struggled for months to find a rental that would allow our family dog — something that should be simple, yet becomes another barrier in an already impossible system.

• And like so many others, I faced the emotional toll, loss of independence, and destabilisation that comes with being priced out of your own community.

Today, I’m incredibly grateful to be one year settled in my new home. But that lived experience has never left me — especially now, as we watch the launch of a government-funded campaign encouraging young adults to “live at home with their parents.”

To me, that messaging is tone deaf.

It glosses over the real issue:

Ireland’s housing crisis is not caused by people “not wanting” to move out — it is caused by a system that is failing to provide adequate housing, fair access to mortgages, and realistic pathways to independence.

If a tenant can consistently and reliably pay rent at today’s inflated rates, then logically, they should be eligible for a mortgage.

The system needs reform, not PR campaigns.

We deserve a country where people can build secure, independent lives — not one where “staying at home indefinitely” is presented as a long-term solution to a crisis the Government has the power to fix.

It’s time to address the real problem:

Ireland needs more homes, fairer mortgage criteria, and a housing system that serves its citizens — not the other way around.

In the first of a three-part series, Ann Murphy looks at how the rental crisis in Tralee is holding back the lives of locals and newcomers alike. Doireann Barrett bought her first home at 22, but, now 43, is back in her parents' spare room. Where did it all go wrong?

08/12/2025

Go Caoimhe 🏄‍♀️🏄‍♀️🇮🇪

Caoimhe at the World Junior Surf Championships in Peru. Huge shout out to Caoimhe Skinner Syme who is competing for Ireland at the World Junior Surf Championships in Peru at the moment. Caoimhe is a member of our Senior Squad in Tralee Bays Stingrays Surf Lifesaving and is a very capable swimmer as well as surfer. Caoimhe surfs with West Coast Surf Club and you can also find Caoimhe on RTE new programme 'New Wave' which follows the best of young Irish surfers. Caoimhe also narrates the series. Go Caoimhe. You only find the best people in the water.

08/12/2025

My parents are married 51 years - as a family we have navigated a lot of trauma - trauma that broke us down at times when there were virtually no professional supports available to help us as a family process and understand how to survive the challenges but we stood strong and have overcome some of life’s most challenging times.

We have stood so strong together and two weeks ago were gifted our newest member of the family who we will love protect and support on her journey ✨💛

Family isn’t always who we choose but we are given each other to learn from and love unconditionally whatever life throws at us cause that is life 💛

08/12/2025

“Almost 900 women on waiting lists for Endometriosis Treatment in Ireland”

I would imagine that figure is rising.

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/almost-900-women-on-waiting-lists-for-endometriosis-care-across-four-hospitals-1837930.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcAOjhlNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEePv1NhGykTCXGWxLMDIrR1Nl_WtnbM3RZFOvVdtNXM3wt8Dwf8A8zibL1rKY_aem_aJwBfhZCEwJRUH2eEnHReQ

Endometriosis causes cells, similar to those in the lining of the womb, to grow outside the uterus and can cause a range of symptoms, with some people experiencing chronic, debilitating pain

08/12/2025

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