John Lynch
@johnlync.bsky.social
Design is my job. Founded Context Studio to improve life in Ireland by designing better services. (www.contextstudio.ie) #ServiceDesign
Interested in design, bikes, public services, climate, Dublin, and parenting stuff, life I suppose!
Interested in design, bikes, public services, climate, Dublin, and parenting stuff, life I suppose!
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John Lynch
@johnlync.bsky.social
· Feb 7
Folks who know me know I promote a design approach to services and tech, for better public outcomes.
I run Context Studio in Dublin and we’ve just taken the company off X / Twitter for obvious reasons.
Give us a follow on @contextstudio.bsky.social and let us know what you think of the content.
I run Context Studio in Dublin and we’ve just taken the company off X / Twitter for obvious reasons.
Give us a follow on @contextstudio.bsky.social and let us know what you think of the content.
So, @kilkenomics.bsky.social was a thing… wish I could spend more time, but it was a good talking the economics of design with Seán Keyes and Ciarán O’Gaora. Huge opportunity for Ireland, if we can get past the “stuff for the yanks to buy” mentality.
November 9, 2025 at 1:58 AM
So, @kilkenomics.bsky.social was a thing… wish I could spend more time, but it was a good talking the economics of design with Seán Keyes and Ciarán O’Gaora. Huge opportunity for Ireland, if we can get past the “stuff for the yanks to buy” mentality.
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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.
Some of the comments from Irish government leadership about immigration lately could make one wonder if violent and destructive “protest” is the most viable means to get policy change.
I don’t see them responding to peaceful efforts on other issues.
I don’t see them responding to peaceful efforts on other issues.
October 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Some of the comments from Irish government leadership about immigration lately could make one wonder if violent and destructive “protest” is the most viable means to get policy change.
I don’t see them responding to peaceful efforts on other issues.
I don’t see them responding to peaceful efforts on other issues.
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Free 300-litre waterbutts available for residents on Leix, Fertualla, Erris, Annaly, Offaly & Bregia Roads.
Help prevent flooding and provide free water for your plants.
Can be installed in gardens, sheds or anywhere there’s a downpipe (not suitable for cast iron).
Email hello@connectingcabra.ie
Help prevent flooding and provide free water for your plants.
Can be installed in gardens, sheds or anywhere there’s a downpipe (not suitable for cast iron).
Email hello@connectingcabra.ie
October 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Free 300-litre waterbutts available for residents on Leix, Fertualla, Erris, Annaly, Offaly & Bregia Roads.
Help prevent flooding and provide free water for your plants.
Can be installed in gardens, sheds or anywhere there’s a downpipe (not suitable for cast iron).
Email hello@connectingcabra.ie
Help prevent flooding and provide free water for your plants.
Can be installed in gardens, sheds or anywhere there’s a downpipe (not suitable for cast iron).
Email hello@connectingcabra.ie
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He should be aware of his own personal safety and take steps to be as safe as possible at all times.
October 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
He should be aware of his own personal safety and take steps to be as safe as possible at all times.
A day spent training public servants in design mindset and methods, a day spent learning about the challenges they face, but also the energy they bring to delivering #BetterPublicServices in their every day.
October 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
A day spent training public servants in design mindset and methods, a day spent learning about the challenges they face, but also the energy they bring to delivering #BetterPublicServices in their every day.
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History, architecture, Halloween & more! 🎃🏛️ Join us at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks this October for sensory-friendly hours, family workshops & themed tours #CollinsBarracks #DublinEvents #FamilyFun #BramStokerFestival #OpenHouseDublin
Full lineup at
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
Full lineup at
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
October 3, 2025 at 9:51 AM
History, architecture, Halloween & more! 🎃🏛️ Join us at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks this October for sensory-friendly hours, family workshops & themed tours #CollinsBarracks #DublinEvents #FamilyFun #BramStokerFestival #OpenHouseDublin
Full lineup at
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
Full lineup at
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
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BIG update in the ongoing battle for pitches in Dublin 8: public consultation has just opened on what is needed for a successful pitch facility at Marrowbone Lane.
It's open until 21st October 2025: engage.dublincity.ie/en-IE/projec...
It's open until 21st October 2025: engage.dublincity.ie/en-IE/projec...
October 3, 2025 at 10:37 AM
BIG update in the ongoing battle for pitches in Dublin 8: public consultation has just opened on what is needed for a successful pitch facility at Marrowbone Lane.
It's open until 21st October 2025: engage.dublincity.ie/en-IE/projec...
It's open until 21st October 2025: engage.dublincity.ie/en-IE/projec...
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I’d love to chat to people who are using power platform (possibly against their will) and integrating APIs (custom connectors) into their workflows. Is it really this much of a faff?
September 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I’d love to chat to people who are using power platform (possibly against their will) and integrating APIs (custom connectors) into their workflows. Is it really this much of a faff?
This is a bit rich as a campaign coming from a police force recently proven to disregard roads policing, in a report where members openly admitted same.
Another victim blaming campaign
Be safe be seen. In the middle of an urban area and the middle of the day?
Of the real message is don't use your phone and headphones basically ever.
How many of those 1 in 4 could you even partly attribute fail to the pedestrian?
Be safe be seen. In the middle of an urban area and the middle of the day?
Of the real message is don't use your phone and headphones basically ever.
How many of those 1 in 4 could you even partly attribute fail to the pedestrian?
September 3, 2025 at 8:46 AM
This is a bit rich as a campaign coming from a police force recently proven to disregard roads policing, in a report where members openly admitted same.
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"The kids get to play out and they haven't got cars interfering with them, and everybody gets to have a good time … People also get to meet each other, neighbours you've probably not spoke to and it's good for the community."
PLAY STREETS:
GOOD FOR KIDS, GOOD FOR COMMUNITIES
👊
PLAY STREETS:
GOOD FOR KIDS, GOOD FOR COMMUNITIES
👊
If it's so positive, which clearly it is, make it permanent.
Stourbridge street closed to traffic to allow children to play
Ruth Blayney said she wanted to encourage kids to get off their phones and play outside.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
"The kids get to play out and they haven't got cars interfering with them, and everybody gets to have a good time … People also get to meet each other, neighbours you've probably not spoke to and it's good for the community."
PLAY STREETS:
GOOD FOR KIDS, GOOD FOR COMMUNITIES
👊
PLAY STREETS:
GOOD FOR KIDS, GOOD FOR COMMUNITIES
👊
Love this…
This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.
August 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Love this…
So @ticketmasterie.bsky.social are a scourge. Chat is off. No phone lines. Complex support form with ~20 fields and the reply asks for more account information.
Meanwhile I’ve an expensive ticket belonging to friend sitting in my app, useless to me cos their “transfer” system is completely flaky.
Meanwhile I’ve an expensive ticket belonging to friend sitting in my app, useless to me cos their “transfer” system is completely flaky.
August 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM
So @ticketmasterie.bsky.social are a scourge. Chat is off. No phone lines. Complex support form with ~20 fields and the reply asks for more account information.
Meanwhile I’ve an expensive ticket belonging to friend sitting in my app, useless to me cos their “transfer” system is completely flaky.
Meanwhile I’ve an expensive ticket belonging to friend sitting in my app, useless to me cos their “transfer” system is completely flaky.
Someone told me I could register a birth online. So we did. Of course, it’s only half done, because when you finish it sends you to a PDF download that has to be filled in and emailed to get a birth certificate.
If we don’t properly invest in #GovDesign we’ll keep wasting millions of hours a year.
If we don’t properly invest in #GovDesign we’ll keep wasting millions of hours a year.
August 8, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Someone told me I could register a birth online. So we did. Of course, it’s only half done, because when you finish it sends you to a PDF download that has to be filled in and emailed to get a birth certificate.
If we don’t properly invest in #GovDesign we’ll keep wasting millions of hours a year.
If we don’t properly invest in #GovDesign we’ll keep wasting millions of hours a year.
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Confidence in the Gardaí among the migrant community is on the floor at the moment. This has been going on for years and it has intensified to at least one attack every day now.
Silence from the Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan and silence from the government.
Silence from the Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan and silence from the government.
August 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Confidence in the Gardaí among the migrant community is on the floor at the moment. This has been going on for years and it has intensified to at least one attack every day now.
Silence from the Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan and silence from the government.
Silence from the Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan and silence from the government.
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Is it though? Is it *really* shocking?
The chairperson of the Policing and Community Safety Authority has described as "shocking" a report which shows that a substantial number of gardaí assigned to Roads Policing are not doing their jobs and have no interest in doing them
Report showing roads gardaí not doing jobs 'shocking'
The chairperson of the Policing and Community Safety Authority has described as "shocking" a report which shows that a substantial number of gardaí assigned to Roads Policing are not doing their jobs ...
www.rte.ie
August 4, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Is it though? Is it *really* shocking?
This is message captures more eloquently than I ever have the reason why everyone who knows me is sick and tired of my Denmark references 11 years after I left the country.
7) Copenhagen is the answer to the question “what if you had as much money as Ireland and decided spent it on stuff that made the place better?”.
August 2, 2025 at 11:08 AM
This is message captures more eloquently than I ever have the reason why everyone who knows me is sick and tired of my Denmark references 11 years after I left the country.
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Want a warmer home and lower bills?
Join us at the Cabra Warmer Homes Project Info Evening!
Learn about retrofitting & insulation
Discover grants and details on FREE upgrades
Hear from local homeowners
Get help with grant forms
#CabraWarmerHomes #RetrofitIreland #SustainableLiving #ConnectingCabra
Join us at the Cabra Warmer Homes Project Info Evening!
Learn about retrofitting & insulation
Discover grants and details on FREE upgrades
Hear from local homeowners
Get help with grant forms
#CabraWarmerHomes #RetrofitIreland #SustainableLiving #ConnectingCabra
July 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Want a warmer home and lower bills?
Join us at the Cabra Warmer Homes Project Info Evening!
Learn about retrofitting & insulation
Discover grants and details on FREE upgrades
Hear from local homeowners
Get help with grant forms
#CabraWarmerHomes #RetrofitIreland #SustainableLiving #ConnectingCabra
Join us at the Cabra Warmer Homes Project Info Evening!
Learn about retrofitting & insulation
Discover grants and details on FREE upgrades
Hear from local homeowners
Get help with grant forms
#CabraWarmerHomes #RetrofitIreland #SustainableLiving #ConnectingCabra
The only thing inaccurate about this @dublincycling.bsky.social skeet is that it’s described as “shocking”.
The consistent lack of enforcement, across the entire city, allows drivers ignore the law with no fear. This is precisely what I would have expected. Not shocking at all.
The consistent lack of enforcement, across the entire city, allows drivers ignore the law with no fear. This is precisely what I would have expected. Not shocking at all.
Shocking data from @irishcycle.com. On the main route to and just metres from a major Garda station #zeroenforcement 😵💫
irishcycle.com/2025/07/23/n...
irishcycle.com/2025/07/23/n...
Nearly a car a minute breaking bus priority mesure in Dublin City Centre
The equivalent of nearly a car a minute was breaking the bus priority measure on Dublin’s Westland Row when IrishCycle.com visited the street last month, but Dublin City Council said it plans…
irishcycle.com
July 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The only thing inaccurate about this @dublincycling.bsky.social skeet is that it’s described as “shocking”.
The consistent lack of enforcement, across the entire city, allows drivers ignore the law with no fear. This is precisely what I would have expected. Not shocking at all.
The consistent lack of enforcement, across the entire city, allows drivers ignore the law with no fear. This is precisely what I would have expected. Not shocking at all.
Now this is something I could get behind…
The idea has been mooching around for a while - is this the year it becomes policy?
www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
Weight tax for SUVs now on the table for Budget 2026 as strategy papers offer a glimpse at potential measures
A tax on family SUVs is being considered among a number of options ahead of Budget 2026.
www.independent.ie
July 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Now this is something I could get behind…
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914 drivers were still speeding, ffs
Incorrect location aside, these people still sped, and have gotten away with it on a technicality.
jrnl.ie/6766858
Incorrect location aside, these people still sped, and have gotten away with it on a technicality.
jrnl.ie/6766858
Gardaí revoke 914 driver fines after speed camera location was inputted incorrectly
The location of the camera was inputted incorrectly to the internal garda processing system due to human error.
jrnl.ie
July 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
914 drivers were still speeding, ffs
Incorrect location aside, these people still sped, and have gotten away with it on a technicality.
jrnl.ie/6766858
Incorrect location aside, these people still sped, and have gotten away with it on a technicality.
jrnl.ie/6766858
Can I assume the new smaller apartment regs also include a generous uplift in common areas, Green courtyards, and valuable facilities like buggy parking, playgrounds, bbq’s, laundry rooms, and strong regulation on facilities management and maintenance?
Just like the ones abroad?
Just like the ones abroad?
July 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Can I assume the new smaller apartment regs also include a generous uplift in common areas, Green courtyards, and valuable facilities like buggy parking, playgrounds, bbq’s, laundry rooms, and strong regulation on facilities management and maintenance?
Just like the ones abroad?
Just like the ones abroad?
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The price of neglecting design in the public realm is miserable and long lasting.
But to choose to deliberately downgrade it is another level of bad political decision-making altogether.
But to choose to deliberately downgrade it is another level of bad political decision-making altogether.
June 29, 2025 at 8:17 AM
The price of neglecting design in the public realm is miserable and long lasting.
But to choose to deliberately downgrade it is another level of bad political decision-making altogether.
But to choose to deliberately downgrade it is another level of bad political decision-making altogether.