Frank O'Connor
@frankoconnor.bsky.social
art - design - activism
#DerelictIreland
visit ffud.art & anois.org
#DerelictIreland
visit ffud.art & anois.org
January 31, 2026 at 1:43 PM
In Solidarity 🙏
Again today 1pm
Grand Parade, Cork City, Ireland
Again today 1pm
Grand Parade, Cork City, Ireland
January 31, 2026 at 11:53 AM
In Solidarity 🙏
Again today 1pm
Grand Parade, Cork City, Ireland
Again today 1pm
Grand Parade, Cork City, Ireland
This is down to government policy
Nobody should be without a home in Ireland
There are enough homes
In fact a recent government study found 65,000 homes empty for over 2 years, all connected to electricity & other services
We urgently need use it or lose it so everyone has a home
#speirgorm
Nobody should be without a home in Ireland
There are enough homes
In fact a recent government study found 65,000 homes empty for over 2 years, all connected to electricity & other services
We urgently need use it or lose it so everyone has a home
#speirgorm
January 30, 2026 at 9:14 PM
This is down to government policy
Nobody should be without a home in Ireland
There are enough homes
In fact a recent government study found 65,000 homes empty for over 2 years, all connected to electricity & other services
We urgently need use it or lose it so everyone has a home
#speirgorm
Nobody should be without a home in Ireland
There are enough homes
In fact a recent government study found 65,000 homes empty for over 2 years, all connected to electricity & other services
We urgently need use it or lose it so everyone has a home
#speirgorm
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Celtic Tiger crony capitalism.
The gift that keeps taking and taking - from the taxpayer.
The gift that keeps taking and taking - from the taxpayer.
Developers to face 'zero consequences'
But f*ck the tax payers
Anyone surprised
But f*ck the tax payers
Anyone surprised
January 30, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Celtic Tiger crony capitalism.
The gift that keeps taking and taking - from the taxpayer.
The gift that keeps taking and taking - from the taxpayer.
Great to see some new visualisations of what we could have in Cork city, so much potential wasted, particularly love ones with restored brickwork
Its also great to see more people speaking up, & encouraging others to speak up too
People have the power but we need to use it
#peoplepower #speirgorm
Its also great to see more people speaking up, & encouraging others to speak up too
People have the power but we need to use it
#peoplepower #speirgorm
This reminds me of the energy @frankoconnor.bsky.social and @judesherry.bsky.social bring to the #DerelictIreland campaign. Kev has questions, and answers.
youtu.be/YFT8XlJ-tq8?...
youtu.be/YFT8XlJ-tq8?...
The Provincial City
YouTube video by Kev Collins
youtu.be
January 30, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Great to see some new visualisations of what we could have in Cork city, so much potential wasted, particularly love ones with restored brickwork
Its also great to see more people speaking up, & encouraging others to speak up too
People have the power but we need to use it
#peoplepower #speirgorm
Its also great to see more people speaking up, & encouraging others to speak up too
People have the power but we need to use it
#peoplepower #speirgorm
Developers to face 'zero consequences'
But f*ck the tax payers
Anyone surprised
But f*ck the tax payers
Anyone surprised
January 30, 2026 at 11:27 AM
Developers to face 'zero consequences'
But f*ck the tax payers
Anyone surprised
But f*ck the tax payers
Anyone surprised
Time for more tax breaks so
January 30, 2026 at 11:14 AM
Time for more tax breaks so
Reposted by Frank O'Connor
This reminds me of the energy @frankoconnor.bsky.social and @judesherry.bsky.social bring to the #DerelictIreland campaign. Kev has questions, and answers.
youtu.be/YFT8XlJ-tq8?...
youtu.be/YFT8XlJ-tq8?...
The Provincial City
YouTube video by Kev Collins
youtu.be
January 30, 2026 at 2:55 AM
This reminds me of the energy @frankoconnor.bsky.social and @judesherry.bsky.social bring to the #DerelictIreland campaign. Kev has questions, and answers.
youtu.be/YFT8XlJ-tq8?...
youtu.be/YFT8XlJ-tq8?...
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As promised, a step-by-step guide on how to tell your local paper how pissed you are that local TDs failed the disabled community yesterday. 4.45 secs to research, write, and send. I bet you can beat that.
Hold them accountable.
Part 2 and transcript below
#spéirgorm
Hold them accountable.
Part 2 and transcript below
#spéirgorm
January 29, 2026 at 1:49 PM
As promised, a step-by-step guide on how to tell your local paper how pissed you are that local TDs failed the disabled community yesterday. 4.45 secs to research, write, and send. I bet you can beat that.
Hold them accountable.
Part 2 and transcript below
#spéirgorm
Hold them accountable.
Part 2 and transcript below
#spéirgorm
Reposted by Frank O'Connor
A motel and 50 part-built houses, Tipp Council plan to demolish them to stop a problem with anti-social behaviour and fly-tipping. 🤯😱😡 it also has concerns about completion costs!!!
Mattie McGrath is holding a meeting tomorrow for the public .
#DerelictIreland is everywhere, this makes it worse.
Mattie McGrath is holding a meeting tomorrow for the public .
#DerelictIreland is everywhere, this makes it worse.
Struggling to understand why these 50 partially completed houses in Cashel are to be demolished instead of finishing them off as social housing
Who can argue with 50 families getting a much needed home?
While most sustainable is the existing
#DerelictIreland #speirgorm
By @tippfm.bsky.social
Who can argue with 50 families getting a much needed home?
While most sustainable is the existing
#DerelictIreland #speirgorm
By @tippfm.bsky.social
January 29, 2026 at 12:24 PM
A motel and 50 part-built houses, Tipp Council plan to demolish them to stop a problem with anti-social behaviour and fly-tipping. 🤯😱😡 it also has concerns about completion costs!!!
Mattie McGrath is holding a meeting tomorrow for the public .
#DerelictIreland is everywhere, this makes it worse.
Mattie McGrath is holding a meeting tomorrow for the public .
#DerelictIreland is everywhere, this makes it worse.
An afternoon well spent with @judesherry.bsky.social, Martin Leahy & Gary Baus filming about Irish housing crisis for Italia 1 TV
Here I'm in front of our ffud #derelictireland billboards on longterm derelict home in Cork City calling out the local authorities for their costly inaction
#speirgorm
Here I'm in front of our ffud #derelictireland billboards on longterm derelict home in Cork City calling out the local authorities for their costly inaction
#speirgorm
January 29, 2026 at 1:18 PM
An afternoon well spent with @judesherry.bsky.social, Martin Leahy & Gary Baus filming about Irish housing crisis for Italia 1 TV
Here I'm in front of our ffud #derelictireland billboards on longterm derelict home in Cork City calling out the local authorities for their costly inaction
#speirgorm
Here I'm in front of our ffud #derelictireland billboards on longterm derelict home in Cork City calling out the local authorities for their costly inaction
#speirgorm
Week 193 at the Dáil for brilliant Martin Leahy
Every Thursday Martin travels from Co. Cork to Dublin to sing his song "Everyone should have a home" from 1-2pm, to shine a bright light on manufactured housing crisis
Total respect
Here is me & @judesherry.bsky.social with Martin at Dáil in October
Every Thursday Martin travels from Co. Cork to Dublin to sing his song "Everyone should have a home" from 1-2pm, to shine a bright light on manufactured housing crisis
Total respect
Here is me & @judesherry.bsky.social with Martin at Dáil in October
January 29, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Week 193 at the Dáil for brilliant Martin Leahy
Every Thursday Martin travels from Co. Cork to Dublin to sing his song "Everyone should have a home" from 1-2pm, to shine a bright light on manufactured housing crisis
Total respect
Here is me & @judesherry.bsky.social with Martin at Dáil in October
Every Thursday Martin travels from Co. Cork to Dublin to sing his song "Everyone should have a home" from 1-2pm, to shine a bright light on manufactured housing crisis
Total respect
Here is me & @judesherry.bsky.social with Martin at Dáil in October
Struggling to understand why these 50 partially completed houses in Cashel are to be demolished instead of finishing them off as social housing
Who can argue with 50 families getting a much needed home?
While most sustainable is the existing
#DerelictIreland #speirgorm
By @tippfm.bsky.social
Who can argue with 50 families getting a much needed home?
While most sustainable is the existing
#DerelictIreland #speirgorm
By @tippfm.bsky.social
January 29, 2026 at 11:27 AM
Struggling to understand why these 50 partially completed houses in Cashel are to be demolished instead of finishing them off as social housing
Who can argue with 50 families getting a much needed home?
While most sustainable is the existing
#DerelictIreland #speirgorm
By @tippfm.bsky.social
Who can argue with 50 families getting a much needed home?
While most sustainable is the existing
#DerelictIreland #speirgorm
By @tippfm.bsky.social
Reposted by Frank O'Connor
You are doing ‘the lords’ work @judesherry.bsky.social
Just inspirational 👏🏼
Just inspirational 👏🏼
January 17, 2026 at 1:15 AM
You are doing ‘the lords’ work @judesherry.bsky.social
Just inspirational 👏🏼
Just inspirational 👏🏼
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I still remember when ye happened upon the empty Reparation Convent site on Windmill Rd - nuns left in 2009ish and it's still empty. And that's just the tip of the RCC owned property lying vacant in Cork City.
This one is less than 10 minutes walk to Pana.
This one is less than 10 minutes walk to Pana.
January 28, 2026 at 10:49 AM
I still remember when ye happened upon the empty Reparation Convent site on Windmill Rd - nuns left in 2009ish and it's still empty. And that's just the tip of the RCC owned property lying vacant in Cork City.
This one is less than 10 minutes walk to Pana.
This one is less than 10 minutes walk to Pana.
Reposted by Frank O'Connor
There’s a statue of Thomas Drummond in the atrium of Dublin City Hall with a pedestal reading “property has its duties as well as its rights”. The council and govt in general are excellent at upholding property rights and poor at enforcing property owners’ duties to the community.
January 28, 2026 at 10:20 AM
There’s a statue of Thomas Drummond in the atrium of Dublin City Hall with a pedestal reading “property has its duties as well as its rights”. The council and govt in general are excellent at upholding property rights and poor at enforcing property owners’ duties to the community.
Reposted by Frank O'Connor
I love Ireland but am always amazed at the derelict buildings peppering every little town and village yet at the same time everyone tells me that housing is so expensive. Yet next door in the UK or France this isnt a thing . What magic power does the UK or France have ?
January 27, 2026 at 12:18 PM
I love Ireland but am always amazed at the derelict buildings peppering every little town and village yet at the same time everyone tells me that housing is so expensive. Yet next door in the UK or France this isnt a thing . What magic power does the UK or France have ?
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Heroic work from Frank and Jude, putting pressure on Cork Council and educating Government.
We don’t have to reinvent the wheel, there are solutions for all the problems #DerelictIreland and #VacantIreland bring.
We don’t have to reinvent the wheel, there are solutions for all the problems #DerelictIreland and #VacantIreland bring.
We were only ones in room not being paid
Only ones spending our time & money trying to end scourge of vacancy & dereliction
Only ones who've spent best part of last 6 yrs working on this for free
Yet we still get attacked every single day
Me & @judesherry.bsky.social fight on with Dóchas🙏
#speirgorm
Only ones spending our time & money trying to end scourge of vacancy & dereliction
Only ones who've spent best part of last 6 yrs working on this for free
Yet we still get attacked every single day
Me & @judesherry.bsky.social fight on with Dóchas🙏
#speirgorm
And here is @judesherry.bsky.social at @oireachtasnews.bsky.social outlining how compulsory sales & compulsory rental function as effective policy measures to tackle vacancy/dereliction in other countries
We believe they would be transformative in tackling #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland
#speirgorm
We believe they would be transformative in tackling #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland
#speirgorm
January 27, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Heroic work from Frank and Jude, putting pressure on Cork Council and educating Government.
We don’t have to reinvent the wheel, there are solutions for all the problems #DerelictIreland and #VacantIreland bring.
We don’t have to reinvent the wheel, there are solutions for all the problems #DerelictIreland and #VacantIreland bring.
Reposted by Frank O'Connor
and massive thanks to you and @judesherry.bsky.social for taking the lead in protesting and campaigning on #derelictIreland
January 27, 2026 at 1:39 PM
and massive thanks to you and @judesherry.bsky.social for taking the lead in protesting and campaigning on #derelictIreland
Reposted by Frank O'Connor
And here is @judesherry.bsky.social at @oireachtasnews.bsky.social outlining how compulsory sales & compulsory rental function as effective policy measures to tackle vacancy/dereliction in other countries
We believe they would be transformative in tackling #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland
#speirgorm
We believe they would be transformative in tackling #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland
#speirgorm
January 27, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Reposted by Frank O'Connor
Brilliant proven ideas. Do them now!
And here is @judesherry.bsky.social at @oireachtasnews.bsky.social outlining how compulsory sales & compulsory rental function as effective policy measures to tackle vacancy/dereliction in other countries
We believe they would be transformative in tackling #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland
#speirgorm
We believe they would be transformative in tackling #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland
#speirgorm
January 27, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Brilliant proven ideas. Do them now!
Reposted by Frank O'Connor
Frank and Jude have done phenomenal work bringing attention to the 180,000 empty and derelict properties that are littered across the land. The Councils have ALL been dragging their heels for years, funnily enough. #DerelictIreland
Change is happening
"Over 300 Cork properties saved from vacancy with Refurbishment Grant in 2025"
Piece by @corkbeo.bsky.social
This is one of my photos, a lovely home wasted for over a decade when so many urgently need a home
#DerelictIreland #CorkCity #speirgorm
www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-n...
"Over 300 Cork properties saved from vacancy with Refurbishment Grant in 2025"
Piece by @corkbeo.bsky.social
This is one of my photos, a lovely home wasted for over a decade when so many urgently need a home
#DerelictIreland #CorkCity #speirgorm
www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-n...
Over 300 Cork properties saved from vacancy with Refurbishment Grant in 2025
A total of 474 grants have been issued across Co Cork since 2022
www.corkbeo.ie
January 27, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Frank and Jude have done phenomenal work bringing attention to the 180,000 empty and derelict properties that are littered across the land. The Councils have ALL been dragging their heels for years, funnily enough. #DerelictIreland
Massive thank you to everyone who supported us, & continues to, since @judesherry.bsky.social & I started this crazy journey
You'll never know how much a difference its made to us
We just couldn't accept housing crisis mantra "thats the way things are" when over 180,000 homes were wasted
#speirgorm
You'll never know how much a difference its made to us
We just couldn't accept housing crisis mantra "thats the way things are" when over 180,000 homes were wasted
#speirgorm
We were only ones in room not being paid
Only ones spending our time & money trying to end scourge of vacancy & dereliction
Only ones who've spent best part of last 6 yrs working on this for free
Yet we still get attacked every single day
Me & @judesherry.bsky.social fight on with Dóchas🙏
#speirgorm
Only ones spending our time & money trying to end scourge of vacancy & dereliction
Only ones who've spent best part of last 6 yrs working on this for free
Yet we still get attacked every single day
Me & @judesherry.bsky.social fight on with Dóchas🙏
#speirgorm
And here is @judesherry.bsky.social at @oireachtasnews.bsky.social outlining how compulsory sales & compulsory rental function as effective policy measures to tackle vacancy/dereliction in other countries
We believe they would be transformative in tackling #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland
#speirgorm
We believe they would be transformative in tackling #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland
#speirgorm
January 27, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Massive thank you to everyone who supported us, & continues to, since @judesherry.bsky.social & I started this crazy journey
You'll never know how much a difference its made to us
We just couldn't accept housing crisis mantra "thats the way things are" when over 180,000 homes were wasted
#speirgorm
You'll never know how much a difference its made to us
We just couldn't accept housing crisis mantra "thats the way things are" when over 180,000 homes were wasted
#speirgorm
We were only ones in room not being paid
Only ones spending our time & money trying to end scourge of vacancy & dereliction
Only ones who've spent best part of last 6 yrs working on this for free
Yet we still get attacked every single day
Me & @judesherry.bsky.social fight on with Dóchas🙏
#speirgorm
Only ones spending our time & money trying to end scourge of vacancy & dereliction
Only ones who've spent best part of last 6 yrs working on this for free
Yet we still get attacked every single day
Me & @judesherry.bsky.social fight on with Dóchas🙏
#speirgorm
And here is @judesherry.bsky.social at @oireachtasnews.bsky.social outlining how compulsory sales & compulsory rental function as effective policy measures to tackle vacancy/dereliction in other countries
We believe they would be transformative in tackling #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland
#speirgorm
We believe they would be transformative in tackling #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland
#speirgorm
January 27, 2026 at 12:32 PM
We were only ones in room not being paid
Only ones spending our time & money trying to end scourge of vacancy & dereliction
Only ones who've spent best part of last 6 yrs working on this for free
Yet we still get attacked every single day
Me & @judesherry.bsky.social fight on with Dóchas🙏
#speirgorm
Only ones spending our time & money trying to end scourge of vacancy & dereliction
Only ones who've spent best part of last 6 yrs working on this for free
Yet we still get attacked every single day
Me & @judesherry.bsky.social fight on with Dóchas🙏
#speirgorm
And here is @judesherry.bsky.social at @oireachtasnews.bsky.social outlining how compulsory sales & compulsory rental function as effective policy measures to tackle vacancy/dereliction in other countries
We believe they would be transformative in tackling #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland
#speirgorm
We believe they would be transformative in tackling #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland
#speirgorm
January 27, 2026 at 12:09 PM
And here is @judesherry.bsky.social at @oireachtasnews.bsky.social outlining how compulsory sales & compulsory rental function as effective policy measures to tackle vacancy/dereliction in other countries
We believe they would be transformative in tackling #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland
#speirgorm
We believe they would be transformative in tackling #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland
#speirgorm