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It has been reported that the Government will move to block investment funds from buying up entire housing estates.
Discussions are continuing within Government as to how best to implement the policy.
This all comes after fierce Opposition criticism of the Government on the housing issue, following reports that entire developments of family homes had been bought by investment funds.
Financial analyst Karl Deeter, CEO of IPAV Pat Davitt and author and activist Tonie Walsh all contributed to the discussion.
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Bluffers Guide. When it comes to disco music, I could talk about how brilliant Studio 54 was supposed to be, but New York had so many incredible DJs and promoters who were mavericks.
You may not have heard of Nicky Siano s Gallery - he could be considered the first superstar DJ of them all - or David Mancuso s Loft - they say he set up the first Disco Valentine s Day in 1970. Then there s Larry Levan at Paradise Garage, he really moved the art form of DJ-ing into production. Please get Tim Lawrence s book
Love Saves The Day. A great document about these early times, He never mentions Abba once.
“In the Middle Ages, the leper was a social text in which corruption was made visible, an emblem of decay. Nothing is more punitive that to give disease a meaning the meaning being invariably a moralistic one.” Susan Sontag, writer and philosopher, in her 1977 essay, Illness as Metaphor.
‘Victim cremated in secret…Tourists help spread… Panic on luxury cruiser…Power to detain victims.”
These headlines, brimming with moral panic and describing a new health threat first seen in a group of marginalised communities in the US, could so easily be ascribed to Covid-19.
They are in fact drawn from Irish press reports from February 1985, detailing the emergence of cluster of rare opportunistic infections Aids assailing primarily gay and bisexual men, sex workers, injecting drug users and, latterly, haemophiliacs.