Cork city used to be gung-ho for towing vehicles obstructing major roads. Used to be highly entertaining.

Its just politics - the councillors who pushed this hardest stands to get a lot of media airtime out of it.
Instead of you know, just doing the less exciting bits of his job.

To be fair they have agreed to enter mediation. There is worse
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

He's not the only Maple 10 developer who backs DOB

its actually the debate we should have had first. The housing crisis is a direct consequence of the lack of infrastructure spending 10-17 years ago

This is the real punchline though

Great piece RIP to both. Used to get it back in the days before the bypass at home when we used to call it "The Express" in the days before Dublin Bus had such a thing. They'll miss him very much. Its a dangerous job & not particularly well paid either. They will both leave big boots to fill.

And yeah, this is the awkward bit nobody wants to say out loud. There's an implicit belief in Ireland in that the worst case scenario SOMEBODY would come to save us (which i think is incorrect), but more importantly how willing are we to extend that to others

Given the current climate I wouldn't be 100% certain about that. The risk is very small but Ireland still remains hopelessly exposed.
But the hybrid war scenario is still very real and harder to tackle, and that's faced by every democratic country

There are almost as many sheep in Ireland as people