Sorry, we can't build this in Ireland Insufficient private open space No lift access to upper floors Inappropriate height because of nearby cottages Windows not aluclad Architecture not innovative enough: too pastiche 🫠

i mean the cause of the 2007 recession was that alan greenspan pressed the big red “crash the economy” button while Fox News called him a genius

On my way to say hi to the ProgressIreland folks in town & there's 2 ladies behind me who it's clear never get a bus because they are all "it's very comfortable isn't it" as if they are surprised to find that Irish transport had actually progressed in the last 20 years

There's actually quite a few people (and I know more than a few of them) around Swords who rarely if ever use public transport, & are often pleasantly surprised when it turns out to be not at all bad

This goes for the Celtic tiger too, & if it isn't obvious by now that entirely all the wrong lessons have been learned

Audio of Labour TD Alan Kelly ending Catherine Connollys presidential hopes. He says - He will not vote for Connolly because - She supported Gemma O'Doherty over Higgins. Even when O'Doherty was clearly anti-HPV vax. Her friendship with Mick Wallace and Clare Daly. Also says

It was very nice to meet with and talk to folks at the ProgressIreland happy hour maybe perhaps next time you too will come with your ideas

In episode 2 of the CIF Construction Safety Campaign 2025 podcast, CIF's Sean Downey joins Willie Loughnane of Collen Construction on site at Grangecastle. 🎙️open.spotify.com/show/2SQXVgyer… 📹youtu.be/9YpOhEg84lA Produced by Katie Tallon 🔗cif.ie/safetycampaign/ #CIFSafety25

Let’s hope this error doesn’t slow down a single home But the risk is real and it shows how badly our planning priorities need a rethink

Only in Ireland!

Great things have been done for climate by people doing technical and engineering work on solar panels and batteries, but “climate activism” has mostly just helped elect Republicans and make things worse. slowboring.com/p/what-makes-s…

One of my biggest skunk at the party takes is that “activism” is systematically overrated in left of center circles as a way to make progress on issues — very few topics actually have the specific structure of the civil rights movement battling Jim Crow.

But I thought foreign countries were supposed to pay the tariffs?

Pleasant, lovely, and very very dense

I'm in Rome, it's 1:30 a.m. and my wife may be considering divorce. I leave analysis of whether Donald Trump is alive to my able colleagues. Good night

Plan green-lit for 352 homes in Wicklow after judicial review quashed previous refusal m.independent.ie/regionals/wick…

lbmeyler 🇮🇪 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 Eoin O'Malley A 2021 report by the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual & Reproductive Rights alleges the Iona Institute received funding via the Novae Terrae Foundation, which obtained €2.39M from a Russian-Azerbaijani "laundromat" linked to oligarchs. Founder Luca Volontè was convicted

Dublin City Council defends housing and zoning targets against minister’s directions – The Irish Times share.google/bCjzA8IKoPdSxk… Housing crisis? What housing crisis?

I was intrigued to discover that Toronto has a sort of 'pedestrian metro', 30 kilometres of tunnels linking the metro and railway stations to the lobbies of major office buildings. The network, called 'the Path', was created piecemeal over the last 120 years by some 35 different

Urbanists are often sceptical about shifting pedestrians into tunnels or elevated walkways, fearing that it drains streets of life, and that the alternatives are dismal and dysfunctional. These concerns are often well founded. But Toronto Downtown is a hyperdense area, with