Fatima Mansions

[customsandrevenue]

What sort of authority decided to call them this?

[ardal]

Eh, might be missing the point, but to answer your question, I believe it was the Dublin Coop at the time, or perhaps better known as Dublin city Council these days

[Dinny Breen]

Anyone else think this was a thread about Cathal Couglan, of Microdisney and The Fatima Mansions fame...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaSi2Z74Ou8

[Billys Boots]

Anyone else think this was a thread about Cathal Couglan, of Microdisney and The Fatima Mansions fame...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaSi2Z74Ou8

Yep.

[Dinny Breen]

Anyone else think this was a thread about Cathal Couglan, of Microdisney and The Fatima Mansions fame...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaSi2Z74Ou8

Yep.

Old School

[Billys Boots]

Anyone else think this was a thread about Cathal Couglan, of Microdisney and The Fatima Mansions fame...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaSi2Z74Ou8

Yep.

Old School

Hmmm, wait until your children start throwing their eyes to the heavens and calling you a hippy.

[brokencrossbar1]

Anyone else think this was a thread about Cathal Couglan, of Microdisney and The Fatima Mansions fame...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaSi2Z74Ou8

Yep.

Old School

Hmmm, wait until your children start throwing their eyes to the heavens and calling you a hippy.

If the cap fits....  . Like both of you I thought the same when I opened the thread, particulalry when I saw the hippy's name associated to it

[aontroim]

Ciao, Ceaucescu! 

[seafoid]

i would love to see a comparison of Dublin and Limerick with random cities in Germany or Italy to see how much money was spent originally housing the poor and how much has been spent on the fallout a generation later. Ireland can't afford the type of failure it has experienced over the last 40 years in this area. 

[customsandrevenue]

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/judge-haunted-by-flats-horror-frees-drug-dealers-killer-269175.html


A HIGH Court judge allowed a killer to walk free, after remarking that he has been "haunted by the conditions of the cruelly-named Fatima Mansions" during the trial of Anthony Burke, who stabbed a former amateur boxer to death.
Mr Justice Paul Carney yesterday handed down a five-year-suspended sentence on 35-year-old Burke after a jury found him guilty of the manslaughter of a former All-Ireland boxing champion Joseph Sutcliffe, who suffered from a drug addiction.

Judge Carney said he did "not see any purpose" that would be served imprisoning Burke, of Clancarty Road, Donnycarney, Dublin who had pleaded not guilty to the murder of Mr Sutcliffe (32) in Fatima Mansions, Rialto in the capital's inner city.

The trial, which lasted seven days, heard that the father of three died as a result of blood loss from a single stab wound to the abdomen. The Central Criminal Court jury took just over seven hours to reach its verdict last month by an 11-to-one majority.

Judge Carney said it seemed to him that Burke remains a "decent man . . . who was sucked into something that he wasn't able to cope with". He had not intended to kill anybody.

In addition to the five-year suspended sentence, Burke was bound over to a ?1,000 bond be of good behaviour for five years.

Mother-of-five Ellen Cahill, of Fatima Mansions, was put on probation after she pleaded guilty to impeding Burke's arrest by disposing of the knife used in the stabbing. The court heard that she later brought gardai to where she had disposed of the weapon.

Before sentencing Burke, Judge Carney told the court that testimony given in the case had left him "haunted by the conditions of the cruelly-named Fatima Mansions".

The court heard that, on the night of the stabbing, a large number of people were in the flats complex buying and selling drugs. "Many of these young people died from drug-related conditions in the time it took the case to come to trial," said the judge. They included young women who sold themselves to buy drugs.

Judge Carney said Burke had no previous convictions and spent his life looking after his invalid father.

[muppet]

i would love to see a comparison of Dublin and Limerick with random cities in Germany or Italy to see how much money was spent originally housing the poor and how much has been spent on the fallout a generation later. Ireland can't afford the type of failure it has experienced over the last 40 years in this area.

There was a stat on twitter earlier @injusticefacts (taken with the usual pinch of salt): In 1968, the U.S. spent $5 million on poverty; after the assassination of MLK, $72 million was spent fighting riots in 110 U.S. cities.

(Can't believe I can post stuff like this without Tyrone's Own launching intercontinental ballistic smilies at me)