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CENTRAL Dublin was brought to a standstill on Saturday when thousands of housing activists staged a sit-down protest at Ireland’s mounting crisis of housing and homelessness.
The march was the latest in a series of demonstrations organised by Take Back the City, a coalition of housing campaigners, trade unionists and others concerned at rising rents and house prices in Ireland.
The group has occupied a number of vacant properties across the Irish capital in recent weeks as they highlight the scale of the housing problem.
The independent TD’s campaign has put important issues like Irish reunification and military neutrality at the heart of the political conversation, argues SEAN MacBRADAIGH
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON