CATU Ireland

27/05/2026

One month since Caitríona, Lisa and Cillian were violently evicted from their home on Clovelly Street. One month of this home lying empty.

Whilst attention from press and cameras has died down, Caitríona’s family remains homeless with no resolution in sight. They have nowhere to live and have been left unsupported and unhoused by the NIHE for 4 painful weeks.

So many families across Belfast and across the rest of the state have been left to the same fate at the hands of private landlords, housing associations and NIHE.

NIHE evicted this family because they said they needed the housing stock. This is the same body that has built only 6 social homes in the past 20 years. With 50,000 families on the waiting list, this is unacceptable.

CATU will continue to fight for housing justice for Caitríona and to support the call for the 500 homes to be built on the Mackies site.

CATU is unwavering:

1. We want Catríona’s family to be offered safe, secure, permanent social housing.

2. We want an end to police use and involvement in all evictions.

3. We want an immediate eviction ban across the social housing sector and a no-fault eviction ban on the private rental sector.

26/05/2026

Strength, joy, determination 🌟 Pics from amazing community anti-eviction day last week in Killarney, where dozens of families are facing eviction by vulture fund LRC

Evictions are at their highest level since the famine. This isn't an accident, it's the result of Government policy. And it's an attack on all of us and our right to dignity and a decent life.

Our members are not cash cows for some investors bottom line; they are children, parents, workers, neighbours, friends. They are more part of the community than a faceless vulture fund will ever be, yet vultures can take away our housing with the stroke of a pen.

We demand the eviction notices are revoked, and that the Government acts NOW to stop the evictions of over a dozen families in Killarney and many thousands more across the island.

Join CATU- we'll keep fighting and we want you with us ✊🏼

16/05/2026

Busy weekend across our union!
👉Kerry are hosting an anti eviction day today in our campaign to stop the eviction of multiple families from Killarney.

👉Tomorrow from 2.30pm all DCC tenants welcome to the F2 Centre Rialto where our Dublin branches are hosting an organising meeting against the rent hikes - all DCC tenants, HAP and AHB tenants welcome! See the posters below for details 🙂

12/05/2026

📢DCC drop the rent hikes! Our Dublin branches out again tonight on the campaign against rent hikes which have seen public housing, HAP and AHB rates increase.

Our protest came just a few days after the department of housing took away funding for long awaited regeneration of Oliver Bonds flats in the heart of the Dublin city. These same tenants are being asked to pay more rent, for worse conditions.

Our campaign has gained huge momentum across the city. Recently in Fingal County Council, councillors voted against rent hikes saying they couldn't in good conscience hike rents in the height of a cost of living crisis. This decision from a neighbouring council was almost certainly down to the pressure that organised tenants are putting on DCC.

👉Let's keep this energy going. If you're a DCC tenant join our Dublin branches on Sunday, 2.30pm in the F2 Centre, Rialto for an organising meeting to fight the hikes

🌟Join CATU, your tenants union and stand together ✊🏼

09/05/2026

Great stuff CATU Armagh & Craigavon Area, connecting housing and the environment and building community and solidarity

Sing yourselves up if your in the area
www.catuireland.org/join

28/04/2026

Disgusting

22/04/2026

12/04/2026

Statement on Fuel Protests

The Community Action Tenants Union (CATU) recognises the deep anger and frustration driving the current fuel protests. Skyrocketing fuel costs are part of a wider cost of living crisis that is placing unbearable pressure on communities across the island. People are feeling these pressures every day, trying to heat their homes, get to work, care for families, stretch wages that just aren’t going far enough, trying their hardest to live with dignity.

This is a vital time for workers and tenants to organise. CATU believes we need to unite in support of demands that remove the power that the private market has over our lives and our services.

For our members this means:
- Cutting and capping rents

- Stop linking rent to “market rate” that has no relationship to what we can afford.

- Universal public housing.

- Focusing on retrofitting rather than redevelopment where it is public owned and aids the creation of public jobs.

- Taking the vultures out of housing, including the expansion of airbnb and short term letting agencies who are soaking up homes.

- End sky high energy bills and profiteering by energy companies.

As a community union, CATU organises not only around housing, but around the broader conditions that our neighbours live in. We support the right of workers and communities to take collective action in pursuit of economic justice, especially in times of crisis.

We are aware of legitimate criticisms of some elements involved in the organisation of the fuel protests. CATU remains firmly committed to anti-racism, solidarity, and inclusion, and we reject any attempt to divide working class communities along racial or other lines. The real root of the current crisis is Government greed and neglect, not in our neighbours and fellow workers. Solutions to the cost of living crisis must unite people, not encourage scapegoating or exclusion

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