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November 14, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Housing targets “a distraction.”
From what, they do not say.
From what, they do not say.
November 13, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Housing targets “a distraction.”
From what, they do not say.
From what, they do not say.
There has been an alarming drop in the level of rthetorical structure in state housing strategy.
2016: Rebuilding Ireland. Five pillars.
2021. Housing for All. Four pillars.
2025. Delivering Homes, Building Communities. Two pillars.
If this trend continues we'll be out of pillars by 2029.
2016: Rebuilding Ireland. Five pillars.
2021. Housing for All. Four pillars.
2025. Delivering Homes, Building Communities. Two pillars.
If this trend continues we'll be out of pillars by 2029.
At the launch of the long awaited housing plan this morning - Minister for Housing James Browne says the scale of homes needed is now far beyond previous estimates.
He says the new plan is built around two pillars: supporting people and activating supply.
He says the new plan is built around two pillars: supporting people and activating supply.
November 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
There has been an alarming drop in the level of rthetorical structure in state housing strategy.
2016: Rebuilding Ireland. Five pillars.
2021. Housing for All. Four pillars.
2025. Delivering Homes, Building Communities. Two pillars.
If this trend continues we'll be out of pillars by 2029.
2016: Rebuilding Ireland. Five pillars.
2021. Housing for All. Four pillars.
2025. Delivering Homes, Building Communities. Two pillars.
If this trend continues we'll be out of pillars by 2029.
The ESB was established in August 1927. By March 1929 it had more than 800 employees.
🗣️ "We need a state construction company," says People Before Profit–Solidarity TD Richard Boyd Barrett.
"How many years would it take to set that up?" asks guest host Fionnán Sheahan.
#TonightVMTV
"How many years would it take to set that up?" asks guest host Fionnán Sheahan.
#TonightVMTV
November 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The ESB was established in August 1927. By March 1929 it had more than 800 employees.
What a fascinating worldview he has. Bedsit ban "folly". Rent control a "disaster". But somehow he expects young folk to queue up for machine guns with a view to lying down in a ditch to die for Ireland while he and the other non-military-aged men so vocal on this keep counting the pence.
Michael McDowell: How many Irish women and men could rally to the flag and handle an automatic weapon?
Michael McDowell: How many Irish women and men could rally to the flag and handle an automatic weapon?
Ireland’s Defence Forces has been allowed to atrophy, while we complacently ignore threats to national security
www.irishtimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
What a fascinating worldview he has. Bedsit ban "folly". Rent control a "disaster". But somehow he expects young folk to queue up for machine guns with a view to lying down in a ditch to die for Ireland while he and the other non-military-aged men so vocal on this keep counting the pence.
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Let the alt text do the work
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Let the alt text do the work
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I've seen Batman's parents murdered 17 times a decade without anyone having to explain how they were revived between movies.
this kind of feels like freaking out over a problem that 95% of the audience is not going to have an issue with
Report: Amazon Is Struggling to Think How to Bring James Bond Back From the Dead
Daniel Craig's permanent exit in 'No Time to Die' is apparently causing issues for the next 'Bond' film.
gizmodo.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I've seen Batman's parents murdered 17 times a decade without anyone having to explain how they were revived between movies.
There is quite a simple answer here. A public register of local property tax valuations. These can be used as an asking price. Any significant variance between ratable valuation and its sales price can be recovered at the same time as stamp duty.
www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2...
www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2...
How truthful are we when it comes to valuing our houses for the taxman?
Local politicians seem to be allergic to it and only ever use their discretion to keep it as low as possible
www.irishtimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:12 AM
There is quite a simple answer here. A public register of local property tax valuations. These can be used as an asking price. Any significant variance between ratable valuation and its sales price can be recovered at the same time as stamp duty.
www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2...
www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2...
No need for a commute to get business done, Denis showed us the way to rise and grind in 2015.
Wake up (in Haiti). Get briefed in bed. Plan over breakfast. Immediately instruct your lawyers.
Get. It. Done. The Denis way.
www.rte.ie/news/busines...
Wake up (in Haiti). Get briefed in bed. Plan over breakfast. Immediately instruct your lawyers.
Get. It. Done. The Denis way.
www.rte.ie/news/busines...
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
No need for a commute to get business done, Denis showed us the way to rise and grind in 2015.
Wake up (in Haiti). Get briefed in bed. Plan over breakfast. Immediately instruct your lawyers.
Get. It. Done. The Denis way.
www.rte.ie/news/busines...
Wake up (in Haiti). Get briefed in bed. Plan over breakfast. Immediately instruct your lawyers.
Get. It. Done. The Denis way.
www.rte.ie/news/busines...
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NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
edition.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
The health service has been severely criticised for failing to suspend a senior hospital pharmacist for over a year after complaints of repeated sexual harassment were made against him by a more junior employee, who has won nearly €87,000 in compensation.
courtsnewsireland.ie/hse-makes-it...
courtsnewsireland.ie/hse-makes-it...
HSE 'makes it easy' for sex harassers, tribunal agrees - Courts News Ireland
The health service has been severely criticised for failing to suspend a senior hospital pharmacist for over a year after complaints of repeated sexual harassment were made against him by a more junio...
courtsnewsireland.ie
November 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The health service has been severely criticised for failing to suspend a senior hospital pharmacist for over a year after complaints of repeated sexual harassment were made against him by a more junior employee, who has won nearly €87,000 in compensation.
courtsnewsireland.ie/hse-makes-it...
courtsnewsireland.ie/hse-makes-it...
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Tim Davie was one of the best D-Gs the BBC has had, and Deborah Turness was a brilliant head of news. Only the BBC’s enemies could possibly be glad they’ve resigned. We’ve now got a real fight on our hands to defend public service broadcasting, because that’s under threat too.
November 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Tim Davie was one of the best D-Gs the BBC has had, and Deborah Turness was a brilliant head of news. Only the BBC’s enemies could possibly be glad they’ve resigned. We’ve now got a real fight on our hands to defend public service broadcasting, because that’s under threat too.
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The Government's new stated aim is to make it so unattractive for lawyers to take good cases against the State that they will stop. Not bad cases. Good ones. Successful ones. This new rule only applies if you *win* your case. Doesn't that worry anyone slightly?
m.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
m.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
Objectors will be on the hook to pay six-figure legal costs under judicial reviews clampdown
Objectors will have to foot six-figure legal bills for successful judicial review cases in a new move being brought to the Cabinet to speed up the supply of infrastructure and housing.
m.independent.ie
November 9, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The Government's new stated aim is to make it so unattractive for lawyers to take good cases against the State that they will stop. Not bad cases. Good ones. Successful ones. This new rule only applies if you *win* your case. Doesn't that worry anyone slightly?
m.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
m.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
Spotted this homeless camp of around a dozen tents being removed from the banks of the Grand Canal by what looked like a Waterways Ireland crew on Friday. International rugby at the Aviva today, of course.
November 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Spotted this homeless camp of around a dozen tents being removed from the banks of the Grand Canal by what looked like a Waterways Ireland crew on Friday. International rugby at the Aviva today, of course.
Strike is of course a verb all by itself. I've always wondered how and indeed why the news media has always buried it in the back of overlong headlines as an adverb -- less active, less potent, less dangerous.
"Meat plant workers strike" -- four words and done.
"Meat plant workers strike" -- four words and done.
SIPTU members employed at Carroll's Cuisine in Tullamore, Co Offaly, are to take strike action later this month in a dispute over pay and union recognition
SIPTU members in Carroll's Cuisine to take strike action
SIPTU members employed at Carroll's Cuisine in Tullamore, Co Offaly, are to take strike action later this month in a dispute over pay and union recognition.
www.rte.ie
November 7, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Strike is of course a verb all by itself. I've always wondered how and indeed why the news media has always buried it in the back of overlong headlines as an adverb -- less active, less potent, less dangerous.
"Meat plant workers strike" -- four words and done.
"Meat plant workers strike" -- four words and done.
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m.independent.ie/life/home-ga...
"... ‘Luvviebatter’ arrivals (a nickname due to the area being known for its high population of creatives)."
I've never heard this ever, and the second hit for the term on Google is the same author 5 years ago....
"... ‘Luvviebatter’ arrivals (a nickname due to the area being known for its high population of creatives)."
I've never heard this ever, and the second hit for the term on Google is the same author 5 years ago....
Tender love required in ‘Luvviebatter’ cottage on Niall Street
What is it?
m.independent.ie
November 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
m.independent.ie/life/home-ga...
"... ‘Luvviebatter’ arrivals (a nickname due to the area being known for its high population of creatives)."
I've never heard this ever, and the second hit for the term on Google is the same author 5 years ago....
"... ‘Luvviebatter’ arrivals (a nickname due to the area being known for its high population of creatives)."
I've never heard this ever, and the second hit for the term on Google is the same author 5 years ago....
Garda whistleblower Lois West said she was forced to take leave from work because she was “terrified” of a new civilian official installed as the head of the Garda analysis bureau after she testified to the Oireachtas about errors in homicide data.
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
Garda whistleblower says she took work leave as she was ‘terrified’ of new analysis chief
Civilian was installed as Garda analysis bureau head after Lois West testified to Oireachtas about errors in homicide data
www.irishtimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Garda whistleblower Lois West said she was forced to take leave from work because she was “terrified” of a new civilian official installed as the head of the Garda analysis bureau after she testified to the Oireachtas about errors in homicide data.
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
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My council colleague Paddy Monahan and I made a short video about an unsafe junction in Whitehall in Dublin. Yet again, #motonormativity putting our kids in danger. We’re working to get this fixed before someone gets hurt. #speirgorm #ActiveTravel #StreetsAreForPeople
November 7, 2025 at 8:26 AM
My council colleague Paddy Monahan and I made a short video about an unsafe junction in Whitehall in Dublin. Yet again, #motonormativity putting our kids in danger. We’re working to get this fixed before someone gets hurt. #speirgorm #ActiveTravel #StreetsAreForPeople
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Seven years ago, and last year.
November 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Seven years ago, and last year.
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Immigrants are not responsible for decades of failed housing policy.
Hope this helps x
Hope this helps x
🗣️ "The one thing that there is a problem with is housing right across the state, and the more that come to seek asylum, the more pressure it puts on that system.” - Fianna Fáil Minister of State Timmy Dooley
#TonightVMTV
#TonightVMTV
November 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Immigrants are not responsible for decades of failed housing policy.
Hope this helps x
Hope this helps x
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There's a conspiracy theory that the person who set fire to the Ipas centre was a resident because he was "in his socks" but the video shows them wearing runners with white soles.
It's desperate this has to be debunked but someone even posted this to Facebook to try to help the idiots understand:
It's desperate this has to be debunked but someone even posted this to Facebook to try to help the idiots understand:
November 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
There's a conspiracy theory that the person who set fire to the Ipas centre was a resident because he was "in his socks" but the video shows them wearing runners with white soles.
It's desperate this has to be debunked but someone even posted this to Facebook to try to help the idiots understand:
It's desperate this has to be debunked but someone even posted this to Facebook to try to help the idiots understand:
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April: If we don’t get Housing right in seven months, we’re screwed.
November: Housing crisis here until 2040.
November: Housing crisis here until 2040.
November 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
April: If we don’t get Housing right in seven months, we’re screwed.
November: Housing crisis here until 2040.
November: Housing crisis here until 2040.
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November 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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“There is a question that hovers over Irish politics: what will the parties of power do when they start to panic about losing it? Last week, after their joint debacle in the presidential election, we got the grim answer: turn on immigrants.” - @fotoole.bsky.social
Fintan O’Toole: Simon Harris is deliberately spreading disinformation on immigration
For Fine Gael, the small number awaiting deportation is proof inward migration has become ‘too high’
www.irishtimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:58 AM
“There is a question that hovers over Irish politics: what will the parties of power do when they start to panic about losing it? Last week, after their joint debacle in the presidential election, we got the grim answer: turn on immigrants.” - @fotoole.bsky.social