Emmet Ó Briain
@emmet.quiddity.ie
research. language. lay ethnomethodologist. broadstone based.
mundane methods of pedestrianism + active travel
also: D7 Play Streets, almost always (running) in the phoenix park
worst taste in music: @yesboyicecream.bsky.social
mundane methods of pedestrianism + active travel
also: D7 Play Streets, almost always (running) in the phoenix park
worst taste in music: @yesboyicecream.bsky.social
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Emmet Ó Briain
@emmet.quiddity.ie
· Nov 18
On not being a “burden for others”: Bringing your children to weekend activities using public…
Dublin Inquirer’s recent launch of their NoShowBus.ie website, which allows people to report cancelled or disappearing buses, is very dear…
medium.com
Here's some very unstructured thoughts I wrote a few weeks ago about bringing children to weekend activities using public transport as a form of radical (if still generally impractical) sustainable transport advocacy! medium.com/p/f45389f4e1d8
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Against Storytelling by Miriam Rasch @mirias.bsky.social in @eurozine.bsky.social
Brilliant critical essay against the "glorification of storytelling to define who we are or save the planet".
Save now and read at your leisure!
www.eurozine.com/against-stor...
Against Storytelling by Miriam Rasch @mirias.bsky.social in @eurozine.bsky.social
Brilliant critical essay against the "glorification of storytelling to define who we are or save the planet".
Save now and read at your leisure!
www.eurozine.com/against-stor...
Against storytelling
The glorification of storytelling to define who we are or save the planet induces aversion in some: philosopher Byung-Chul Han calls the obsession ‘story-selling’. Do digitally packaged stories restri...
www.eurozine.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Against Storytelling by Miriam Rasch @mirias.bsky.social in @eurozine.bsky.social
Brilliant critical essay against the "glorification of storytelling to define who we are or save the planet".
Save now and read at your leisure!
www.eurozine.com/against-stor...
Against Storytelling by Miriam Rasch @mirias.bsky.social in @eurozine.bsky.social
Brilliant critical essay against the "glorification of storytelling to define who we are or save the planet".
Save now and read at your leisure!
www.eurozine.com/against-stor...
I remember thinking about this before - Irish and English people often add an imagined possessive when referring to shops e.g. Eason's or Tesco's rather than Eason or Tesco. It's just a form of category convention originating from when shops bore the name of their owner.
Do Americans say Costco's??
Do Americans say Costco's??
Seriously lads, does anyone actually say Eason when we all know it’s Eason’s
I ordered my score for messiah , from Eason. Me hoop.
Own up now if you do, just for gas.
#SpeirGhorm
I ordered my score for messiah , from Eason. Me hoop.
Own up now if you do, just for gas.
#SpeirGhorm
November 11, 2025 at 9:07 AM
I remember thinking about this before - Irish and English people often add an imagined possessive when referring to shops e.g. Eason's or Tesco's rather than Eason or Tesco. It's just a form of category convention originating from when shops bore the name of their owner.
Do Americans say Costco's??
Do Americans say Costco's??
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Prioritising youth mobility is prioritising adult relaxing.
When kids can walk/roll safely and independently to SPORTS TRAINING, you can enjoy some peaceful time to yourself.
@camogie.bsky.social
When kids can walk/roll safely and independently to SPORTS TRAINING, you can enjoy some peaceful time to yourself.
@camogie.bsky.social
Just preaching my message of "wanting to do less more often" we all have our reasons.
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Prioritising youth mobility is prioritising adult relaxing.
When kids can walk/roll safely and independently to SPORTS TRAINING, you can enjoy some peaceful time to yourself.
@camogie.bsky.social
When kids can walk/roll safely and independently to SPORTS TRAINING, you can enjoy some peaceful time to yourself.
@camogie.bsky.social
I really hope the housing at Montpelier is a success, I go through here a few mornings a week and it's amazing to see the scale involved. Lots of it looks great.
I hope there are also resources, once the housing is built, to help build communities and support local community-building in the area...
I hope there are also resources, once the housing is built, to help build communities and support local community-building in the area...
99 affordable homes will be up for sale at Montpelier (O'Devaney Gardens) on Tuesday 25th of November.
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I really hope the housing at Montpelier is a success, I go through here a few mornings a week and it's amazing to see the scale involved. Lots of it looks great.
I hope there are also resources, once the housing is built, to help build communities and support local community-building in the area...
I hope there are also resources, once the housing is built, to help build communities and support local community-building in the area...
Ivan Yates should ask Anton Savage for media training.
Ivan Yates insisted he's "done nothing wrong" in his first interview since the media training controversy that erupted over his role in the presidential election.
He further accused the media industry of being "riddled with conflicts of interest".
www.thejournal.ie/rte-radio-ne...
He further accused the media industry of being "riddled with conflicts of interest".
www.thejournal.ie/rte-radio-ne...
Ivan Yates insists he's 'done nothing wrong' in first interview since media training controversy
Yates insisted he had ‘broke no rules’ over his coaching of Jim Gavin while acting as a pundit.
www.thejournal.ie
November 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Ivan Yates should ask Anton Savage for media training.
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Conversation re: media transparency & Ivan Yates worth having. But, I've just heard Oliver Callan speaking to a Limerick hurler on @rte.ie about the Adare bypass, talking up how positive it is. The show: sponsored by car insurance. The motor industry owns Irish media via ads. Let's talk about that!
November 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Conversation re: media transparency & Ivan Yates worth having. But, I've just heard Oliver Callan speaking to a Limerick hurler on @rte.ie about the Adare bypass, talking up how positive it is. The show: sponsored by car insurance. The motor industry owns Irish media via ads. Let's talk about that!
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Whatever your view on judicial review and NIMBY-ism, this is an appalling attack on the rule-of-law —
If a person successfully (successfully!) proves wrongdoing by the state, the state will bankrupt them?
Cui bono? Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael conies and the worst days of An Bord Pleanála corruption.
If a person successfully (successfully!) proves wrongdoing by the state, the state will bankrupt them?
Cui bono? Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael conies and the worst days of An Bord Pleanála corruption.
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.
www.independent.ie
November 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Whatever your view on judicial review and NIMBY-ism, this is an appalling attack on the rule-of-law —
If a person successfully (successfully!) proves wrongdoing by the state, the state will bankrupt them?
Cui bono? Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael conies and the worst days of An Bord Pleanála corruption.
If a person successfully (successfully!) proves wrongdoing by the state, the state will bankrupt them?
Cui bono? Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael conies and the worst days of An Bord Pleanála corruption.
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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...
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My favourite part of the North Dublin Coastline at Bremore. Hundreds of finches, larks, and Tree Sparrow today, as well as Curlew, Common Scoter and Red-Throated Diver. And a reminder that Johnny Ronan’s company is in pre-planning stage to concrete this over and turn it into a Port!!
November 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
My favourite part of the North Dublin Coastline at Bremore. Hundreds of finches, larks, and Tree Sparrow today, as well as Curlew, Common Scoter and Red-Throated Diver. And a reminder that Johnny Ronan’s company is in pre-planning stage to concrete this over and turn it into a Port!!
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This entire piece is very, very good and well worth your time to read — but this bit had me rolling
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
November 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This entire piece is very, very good and well worth your time to read — but this bit had me rolling
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Article by @bobbyduffy.bsky.social (author of The Perils of Perception) on “Imagined Immigration” in the UK - very relevant to current debates in Ireland too: blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
Imagined immigration is shaping our politics | British Politics and Policy at LSE
Immigration has become the number one political priority for the public. But there is one problem: this immigration is imagined, it doesn't really exist.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Article by @bobbyduffy.bsky.social (author of The Perils of Perception) on “Imagined Immigration” in the UK - very relevant to current debates in Ireland too: blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This is one of my favourite albums - the only reason it’s not definitively my favourite album is because The Clientele have released other albums.
November 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This is one of my favourite albums - the only reason it’s not definitively my favourite album is because The Clientele have released other albums.
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I wanted to repost every part of this excellent thread. This one will do. Amen.
Qualitative research isn't a consolation prize for when we can't get 'real' numbers. It's a different way of knowing; one that captures complexity, context, and meaning that statistics alone cannot provide.
November 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I wanted to repost every part of this excellent thread. This one will do. Amen.
I would genuinely love to know how this figure is arrived at
Despite focus on cycling, active travel funding split 60/40 in favour of pedestrian infrastructure
The €360 million per year active travel funding for urban areas, provided via the National Transport Authority, has primarily been allocated to pedestrian infrastructure, the authority has said. The…
The €360 million per year active travel funding for urban areas, provided via the National Transport Authority, has primarily been allocated to pedestrian infrastructure, the authority has said. The…
Despite focus on cycling, active travel funding split 60/40 in favour of pedestrian infrastructure
The €360 million per year active travel funding for urban areas, provided via the National Transport Authority, has primarily been allocated to pedestrian infrastructure, the authority has said. The National Transport Authority (NTA) is responsible for allocating the bulk of the funding, while Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) provides the funding for greenways and active travel infrastructure on national roads. The share of the €360m funding allocated via TII in 2025, for example, was…
irishcycle.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I would genuinely love to know how this figure is arrived at
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A ten-year programme of qualitative knowledge, rich with insight into young fathers' lived experiences, needs, and perspectives, is deemed insufficient because it can't be reduced to a single quantifiable figure or because the sample size (44 is large for a qual study) is considered inadequate
November 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
A ten-year programme of qualitative knowledge, rich with insight into young fathers' lived experiences, needs, and perspectives, is deemed insufficient because it can't be reduced to a single quantifiable figure or because the sample size (44 is large for a qual study) is considered inadequate
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I'm recently noticing a pattern emerging in how my research on young fathers gets received and whether or not it is deemed to ‘count’ and have impact.
A short thread 🧵🧵🧵
A short thread 🧵🧵🧵
November 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I'm recently noticing a pattern emerging in how my research on young fathers gets received and whether or not it is deemed to ‘count’ and have impact.
A short thread 🧵🧵🧵
A short thread 🧵🧵🧵
I cannot wait to read this!
Well, now, look what arrived in the post...
Delighted to share that my new book on psychology and the culture wars has now been published.
Writing it was a long, at times depressing, but ultimately satisfying journey for me. I hope you like it
Deets here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Delighted to share that my new book on psychology and the culture wars has now been published.
Writing it was a long, at times depressing, but ultimately satisfying journey for me. I hope you like it
Deets here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
November 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I cannot wait to read this!
I feel like this is a recurring theme for radio panels in Ireland - and a gripe I had about the post-Presidential election coverage here - there is too much weight given to panellists' incumbency/availability as professional opinion-havers over any actual appreciation of a given political event.
November 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
I feel like this is a recurring theme for radio panels in Ireland - and a gripe I had about the post-Presidential election coverage here - there is too much weight given to panellists' incumbency/availability as professional opinion-havers over any actual appreciation of a given political event.
This is particularly true in anything to do with climate policy, especially sustainable mobility - we've committed as a state to do lots of things which will require some form of change but we've elected people who are unwilling to express even the positive articulations of such changes...
it's arguably a broader problem than just government comms: this island is full of Key Decisionmakers that fear actually explicating what they are doing and why more than death
November 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
This is particularly true in anything to do with climate policy, especially sustainable mobility - we've committed as a state to do lots of things which will require some form of change but we've elected people who are unwilling to express even the positive articulations of such changes...
Fresh from my research on delivery of Active Travel infrastructure in Dublin...
Lucy Suchman on "punctualised" organizational actors and infrastructure project management...
November 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Fresh from my research on delivery of Active Travel infrastructure in Dublin...
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Bíonn na daoine seo ag caint faoin nGaeilge mar a bheadh comhartha stádais inti. An fhírinne ná gur mionteanga í, agus nach bhfuil muid ag iarraidh ach na caighdeáin chéanna agus an meas céanna a thugtar d’aon teanga eile
November 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Bíonn na daoine seo ag caint faoin nGaeilge mar a bheadh comhartha stádais inti. An fhírinne ná gur mionteanga í, agus nach bhfuil muid ag iarraidh ach na caighdeáin chéanna agus an meas céanna a thugtar d’aon teanga eile
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Whilst we celebrate the Ringways Map, it's worth remembering that it wasn't just London in these islands where there were large plans for urban road networks that never came to pass.
Similarly, in Dublin, it’s amazing to see how car-dominated Dublin’s inner core is now and realise that we still dodged a bullet when you consider the historical transport plans for the city were never implemented - via @randall.ie’s brilliant site - randall.ie/unfinished-d...
November 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Whilst we celebrate the Ringways Map, it's worth remembering that it wasn't just London in these islands where there were large plans for urban road networks that never came to pass.
Similarly, in Dublin, it’s amazing to see how car-dominated Dublin’s inner core is now and realise that we still dodged a bullet when you consider the historical transport plans for the city were never implemented - via @randall.ie’s brilliant site - randall.ie/unfinished-d...
November 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Similarly, in Dublin, it’s amazing to see how car-dominated Dublin’s inner core is now and realise that we still dodged a bullet when you consider the historical transport plans for the city were never implemented - via @randall.ie’s brilliant site - randall.ie/unfinished-d...