Renegade Planner
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Planning beyond profit
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The EU Court has found that we have failed to even bring in the laws we’d need to comply with our obligations to combat water pollution.
November 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The EU Court has found that we have failed to even bring in the laws we’d need to comply with our obligations to combat water pollution.
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“The good news is we are all loaded. The net wealth of Irish households is nearly €1.3 trillion, averaging about €228,000 each.. [with] some €156,000 of this is.. bricks and mortar we live in.”
Lorcan Sirr: Irish households are wealthier than ever. You’re not the only one who didn’t notice
Lorcan Sirr: Irish households are wealthier than ever. You’re not the only one who didn’t notice
There is a wealth illusion, and poorer households are particularly vulnerable to the policies that flow from it
www.irishtimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
“The good news is we are all loaded. The net wealth of Irish households is nearly €1.3 trillion, averaging about €228,000 each.. [with] some €156,000 of this is.. bricks and mortar we live in.”
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We are hosting a public meeting on November 17 at Lady’s Island Community Centre. @elainemcgoff.bsky.social from @antaisce.bsky.social will outline how the main measures proposed by the Department of Agriculture do not work for nitrogen pollution. Q&A after.
All welcome. Let’s #SaveLadysIslandLake
All welcome. Let’s #SaveLadysIslandLake
November 3, 2025 at 10:37 AM
We are hosting a public meeting on November 17 at Lady’s Island Community Centre. @elainemcgoff.bsky.social from @antaisce.bsky.social will outline how the main measures proposed by the Department of Agriculture do not work for nitrogen pollution. Q&A after.
All welcome. Let’s #SaveLadysIslandLake
All welcome. Let’s #SaveLadysIslandLake
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Housing crisis in a nutshell
“Our adult children would love to move out
There’s a beautiful new apartment block 5 minutes away. Sadly they are all for rent at extortionate prices
What’s more infuriating is many of these apartments are still vacant” (text in alt) www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...
“Our adult children would love to move out
There’s a beautiful new apartment block 5 minutes away. Sadly they are all for rent at extortionate prices
What’s more infuriating is many of these apartments are still vacant” (text in alt) www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...
November 17, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Housing crisis in a nutshell
“Our adult children would love to move out
There’s a beautiful new apartment block 5 minutes away. Sadly they are all for rent at extortionate prices
What’s more infuriating is many of these apartments are still vacant” (text in alt) www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...
“Our adult children would love to move out
There’s a beautiful new apartment block 5 minutes away. Sadly they are all for rent at extortionate prices
What’s more infuriating is many of these apartments are still vacant” (text in alt) www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...
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Una Mullally: Why is the State selling a beautiful building on Baggot St instead of using it?
Una Mullally: Why is the State selling a beautiful building on Baggot St instead of using it?
Baggot Street Hospital could be reinvented as key worker housing or student accommodation. Instead, it’ll probably end up as a hotel
www.irishtimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Una Mullally: Why is the State selling a beautiful building on Baggot St instead of using it?
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Very much looking forward to this conversation with @whittledaway.bsky.social around THE LIE OF THE LAND this Sunday from 2pm in @booksupstairs.bsky.social in Dublin City centre.
Do come along if you’re free.
Do come along if you’re free.
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Very much looking forward to this conversation with @whittledaway.bsky.social around THE LIE OF THE LAND this Sunday from 2pm in @booksupstairs.bsky.social in Dublin City centre.
Do come along if you’re free.
Do come along if you’re free.
@orla-hegarty.bsky.social is such a calm and effective communicator. Here quietly exposing @progressireland.bsky.social’s regressive, but highly influential, deregulatory schtick dressed up as “progress” podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/i...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
@orla-hegarty.bsky.social is such a calm and effective communicator. Here quietly exposing @progressireland.bsky.social’s regressive, but highly influential, deregulatory schtick dressed up as “progress” podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/i...
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“This narrative on judicial reviews is to create a distraction from Government’s ongoing failures by scapegoating the public and the courts.”
- Attracta Uí Bhroin
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
- Attracta Uí Bhroin
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Judicial reviews serve the common good
Rather than castigating public-spirited ordinary people concerned by planning problems, the Government should focus on properly resourcing the planning and legal systems
www.irishexaminer.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:23 AM
“This narrative on judicial reviews is to create a distraction from Government’s ongoing failures by scapegoating the public and the courts.”
- Attracta Uí Bhroin
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
- Attracta Uí Bhroin
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Great article by @orlakelleher.bsky.social on the much propagandised Judicial Review bogeyman.
Developer interests need something to deflect from real failures of a system which has been deliberately designed by them to produce profit, not homes.
Developer interests need something to deflect from real failures of a system which has been deliberately designed by them to produce profit, not homes.
Dr Orla Kelleher pushes back against the narrative that judicial reviews are to blame for the housing crisis.
Opinion: Beware of the judicial review red herring
Dr Orla Kelleher pushes back against the narrative that judicial reviews are to blame for the housing crisis.
www.irishlegal.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Great article by @orlakelleher.bsky.social on the much propagandised Judicial Review bogeyman.
Developer interests need something to deflect from real failures of a system which has been deliberately designed by them to produce profit, not homes.
Developer interests need something to deflect from real failures of a system which has been deliberately designed by them to produce profit, not homes.
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Good listen “There is a thinking that if the market isn’t functioning, the issue must be regulation. That’s a really naive take.”
What is wrong with Ireland’s housing and planning system?
www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/ins...
What is wrong with Ireland’s housing and planning system?
www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/ins...
What is wrong with Ireland’s housing and planning system?
Is John Collison’s view of Ireland’s housing problems correct or ‘naive’?
www.irishtimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Good listen “There is a thinking that if the market isn’t functioning, the issue must be regulation. That’s a really naive take.”
What is wrong with Ireland’s housing and planning system?
www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/ins...
What is wrong with Ireland’s housing and planning system?
www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/ins...
Ireland does not have a planning permission supply problem.
The only chart that matters when it comes to housing —
Between 2019 and Q2 2025, planning permission for 329,637 units granted, but only 213,790 started.
There’s no issue with zoning, no issue with planning. They are just not being built — except 2024, then the new government crashed that.
Between 2019 and Q2 2025, planning permission for 329,637 units granted, but only 213,790 started.
There’s no issue with zoning, no issue with planning. They are just not being built — except 2024, then the new government crashed that.
November 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Ireland does not have a planning permission supply problem.
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The only chart that matters when it comes to housing —
Between 2019 and Q2 2025, planning permission for 329,637 units granted, but only 213,790 started.
There’s no issue with zoning, no issue with planning. They are just not being built — except 2024, then the new government crashed that.
Between 2019 and Q2 2025, planning permission for 329,637 units granted, but only 213,790 started.
There’s no issue with zoning, no issue with planning. They are just not being built — except 2024, then the new government crashed that.
November 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The only chart that matters when it comes to housing —
Between 2019 and Q2 2025, planning permission for 329,637 units granted, but only 213,790 started.
There’s no issue with zoning, no issue with planning. They are just not being built — except 2024, then the new government crashed that.
Between 2019 and Q2 2025, planning permission for 329,637 units granted, but only 213,790 started.
There’s no issue with zoning, no issue with planning. They are just not being built — except 2024, then the new government crashed that.
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Good read “Just 4% of private homes granted planning permission in Dublin city last year were three-beds – is that enough?” www.dublininquirer.com/just-4-of-pr...
Just 4% of private homes granted planning permission in Dublin city last year were three-beds – is that enough?
The figure – which amounts to 83 homes – jumped out at a councillor, he said at a recent meeting.
www.dublininquirer.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Good read “Just 4% of private homes granted planning permission in Dublin city last year were three-beds – is that enough?” www.dublininquirer.com/just-4-of-pr...
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'Hijacked'? 'Pushing an agenda'? It's called EU law, namely the Habitats Directive, it's been in place for decades, & like most laws Ireland is failing to do that well, while our biodiversity pays the price.
So, yes, eNGOs are pushing it. Unapologetically.
www.farmersjournal.ie/news/news/wa...
So, yes, eNGOs are pushing it. Unapologetically.
www.farmersjournal.ie/news/news/wa...
November 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
'Hijacked'? 'Pushing an agenda'? It's called EU law, namely the Habitats Directive, it's been in place for decades, & like most laws Ireland is failing to do that well, while our biodiversity pays the price.
So, yes, eNGOs are pushing it. Unapologetically.
www.farmersjournal.ie/news/news/wa...
So, yes, eNGOs are pushing it. Unapologetically.
www.farmersjournal.ie/news/news/wa...
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“The most important thermodynamic concepts presented in the book include energy, entropy & dissipation, which Kolasi determines ‘impose powerful constraints on the behaviour & evolution of economic systems’.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth
open.substack.com/pub/eraldkol...
open.substack.com/pub/eraldkol...
Book Review (Nick Thornton): The Physics of Capitalism: How a New Political Ecology Can Change the World by Erald Kolasi
Nick Thornton from Carnegie Mellon wrote a review for my new book, The Physics of Capitalism, reproduced in full below.
open.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
“The most important thermodynamic concepts presented in the book include energy, entropy & dissipation, which Kolasi determines ‘impose powerful constraints on the behaviour & evolution of economic systems’.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth
open.substack.com/pub/eraldkol...
open.substack.com/pub/eraldkol...
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Dublin City Council not covered in glory in this @independent.ie piece on dereliction @otrosnosotros.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Dublin City Council not covered in glory in this @independent.ie piece on dereliction @otrosnosotros.bsky.social
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Powerful letter asking if we’ve been collectively gaslit by the construction industry — exposing how public input is blamed while elite networks quietly rewrite planning rules.
It's time to defend transparency and democracy in development. #PlanningJustice #Ireland
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...
It's time to defend transparency and democracy in development. #PlanningJustice #Ireland
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...
Have we all been gaslit by the construction industry?
‘As a planning consultant, I’ve seen first-hand how public participation strengthens communities’
www.irishtimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Powerful letter asking if we’ve been collectively gaslit by the construction industry — exposing how public input is blamed while elite networks quietly rewrite planning rules.
It's time to defend transparency and democracy in development. #PlanningJustice #Ireland
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...
It's time to defend transparency and democracy in development. #PlanningJustice #Ireland
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...
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Some corrections to recent misinformation on judicial review and context around facts behind the application of EU law in Ireland, access to justice teased out on the Echo Chambers Podcast with Sabrina Kemper and Fred Logue
pca.st/episode/824e...
pca.st/episode/824e...
The Collison Corrections and Access to Justice
pca.st
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Some corrections to recent misinformation on judicial review and context around facts behind the application of EU law in Ireland, access to justice teased out on the Echo Chambers Podcast with Sabrina Kemper and Fred Logue
pca.st/episode/824e...
pca.st/episode/824e...
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Lady's Island lake is the end result of decades of agricultural nitrogen water pollution.
The only way we can turn the agricultural nitrogen pollution problem around is if those in power admit that their measures aren't working.
It's time to actually listen to the evidence, not the spin.
The only way we can turn the agricultural nitrogen pollution problem around is if those in power admit that their measures aren't working.
It's time to actually listen to the evidence, not the spin.
SWAN member, @antaisce.bsky.social, had their Head of Advocacy @elainemcgoff.bsky.social on Primetime last night talking about the pollution crisis in Lady's Island Lake.
Watch the full piece here: 👇https://www.rte.ie/player/series/prime-time/SI0000000825?epguid=IH10008770-25-0050
Watch the full piece here: 👇https://www.rte.ie/player/series/prime-time/SI0000000825?epguid=IH10008770-25-0050
June 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Lady's Island lake is the end result of decades of agricultural nitrogen water pollution.
The only way we can turn the agricultural nitrogen pollution problem around is if those in power admit that their measures aren't working.
It's time to actually listen to the evidence, not the spin.
The only way we can turn the agricultural nitrogen pollution problem around is if those in power admit that their measures aren't working.
It's time to actually listen to the evidence, not the spin.
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There has been a huge drop in judicial review by ordinary members of the public this year, probably 40% down on last year
November 5, 2025 at 9:57 AM
There has been a huge drop in judicial review by ordinary members of the public this year, probably 40% down on last year
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New data on global poverty challenges dominant narratives.
Extreme poverty increased dramatically during the period of capitalist liberalisation in the 1990s. jasonhickel.substack.com/p/new-data-o...
Extreme poverty increased dramatically during the period of capitalist liberalisation in the 1990s. jasonhickel.substack.com/p/new-data-o...
New data on global poverty
What does it show?
jasonhickel.substack.com
February 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
New data on global poverty challenges dominant narratives.
Extreme poverty increased dramatically during the period of capitalist liberalisation in the 1990s. jasonhickel.substack.com/p/new-data-o...
Extreme poverty increased dramatically during the period of capitalist liberalisation in the 1990s. jasonhickel.substack.com/p/new-data-o...
IFAC have gone full YIMBY. JRs of housing developments have dropped dramatically since the abandonment of SHD and if you’re “unsure” if 40sqm cabins in gardens will make a difference to housing provision you need to completely revaluate your analysis
Yesterday, I presented some recent research on Ireland's infrastructure demands at the @fiscalcouncil.bsky.social annual conference. Some reporting below from the event. Many thanks to all who gave their time to present and attend. Slides can be found here: www.fiscalcouncil.ie/path-for-the...
February 22, 2025 at 9:21 AM
IFAC have gone full YIMBY. JRs of housing developments have dropped dramatically since the abandonment of SHD and if you’re “unsure” if 40sqm cabins in gardens will make a difference to housing provision you need to completely revaluate your analysis