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We've really come some distance when "tenants unions" are objecting to new homes. It's almost like they want you to be in a housing emergency, right? share.google/RHf9CJPkxajT...

Louth tenants union condemns Cú Chulainn’s Castle decisionMembers of Community Action Tenants Union (CATU) Louth call for universal social housing amid Cú Chulainn’s Castle decisionshare.google

Should the council have to pay taxes on city properties it owns and leaves vacant or derelict? share.google/ISzNUgYcKUsr... The inevitable consequence of folk howling for the state to take over every derelict building

Should the council have to pay taxes on city properties it owns and leaves vacant or derelict?The recently published report from the government's Local Democracy Taskforce recommended that if it does, it should get the money back.share.google

I mean also surely there's other causes and people's who deserve 1.2m?

Maybe a bit more transparency around this story would help. 25k for a non EU student seems to fall well short of the money required to spend a year here including fees which are not cheap at UCD. Perhaps trying to spread the funding too thinly?

Don't disagree but most lay people would see this as a bike

The cats latest thing is going outside his area and getting stick on unfamiliar high boundaries

What's going is that Grainger is exactly the kind of author the Irish times would have turned up their nose at a year or two ago

Meet the bestselling Irish author you may never have heard of – The Irish Times share.google/Z3vklgscA8nB... Interesting that there's now a whole genre of Irish writing now that has nothing to do with mainstream published elites

Meet the bestselling Irish author you may never have heard ofCork-based Jean Grainger writes Irish historical fiction books, popular in the US among the diasporashare.google

The cat went on a bender today and they had to go look for him. They found him in the next block and he eventually popped over a wall, delighted with himself. The sister in law carried him home

but but but e-scooters www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

Disqualified motorist caught driving tractor which was last taxed seven years agoThe driver will appear before the courts facing a number of charges, including driving while disqualified and driving without insurance.www.irishexaminer.com

in fact while we are at it, 280 or so pedestrians end up with serious injuries each year while walking, so lets be done with it and ban walking in public places

Apparently over 200 people die in road traffic accidents each year. 1200-1500 motor accidents here result in serious injuries. You know what, I've a great idea: lets ban cars....oh, wait

I think the "escooters/bikes shouldn't be on footpaths" narrative is also driven in part by the fact that so much cycle understructure is shared with pedestrians, & the general resentment at allocating space to bikes (& escooters) opens up the opportunity to attack them for just being there

this is the thing, all the rules are there already: you have to be 16, the vehicle has to have a max speed of 20km/h, you cannot ride on footpaths. The question there is why enforcement has been so weak, or why changing the age or dress of riders is going to be any different.

I don't think its classicist as much as the extent to which a mostly older cohort of very loud people absolutely despise the people who ride e-scooters who are mainly migrant workers and teenage boys in hoodies

please make it stop

for once i agree with MLMD