Alan Lawlor

Most MUDs are all separately owned apartments (pre 2008) or owned by large investment company (post 2008).
The 2011 legislation around MUDs is more around management of shared spaces rather than actual ownership of apartments

How does the co-operative get its upfront financing at the pre build stage?

There’s a few Irish presenters on Euronews: which one?

And maybe the obvious needs to be stated: where the raised bumps are located, is NOT a lane for motor vehicles and NOT meant to be crossed by vehicles

Are you advocating for footpaths to not be raised nor have kerbs? Because the above solution is just an extension for the protection of cycle lanes

A lot of these polls and censuses (censii?) tend to overcount the religious. I know loads in Ireland who mark “Catholic” on such a form and yet never attend a church and never pray. They’re more self-declaring their cultural rather than religious affiliation on a census form

It’s a line of work where solidarity with fellow professionals seems to be rare

In fairness, the North is usually more subtle about inquiring about someone’s allegiance: “what’s your surname?” “What school did you go to?” “What’s the name of the westernmost city in NI?” 😂

One missed event in that collection was when @seamas.bsky.social got his days mixed up and ended up high on ketamine in front of the President of Ireland

The other reason: Tesla stubbornly refuses to use Lidar. I’ve seen tests with smoke to simulate fog and they run down dummy pedestrians without even the slightest of slowdown or braking

Given what Jessie Buckley has recently said on the matter, this will become a common occurrence

I see plenty of wheelchair users, families, octogenarians, blind people, etc on my bus commute every day

Park and ride. No-one is advocating for restrictions on car use in rural areas. But once you approach a city, you park up and take a regular bus or train from the facility into the city

And as for those living rurally or in low density suburbs: park and ride. Just bc your journey needs to start with a car ride, doesn’t mean it needs to have the ability to get to a central city destination and park right up by a kerb

Is anyone suggesting that people be prevented from having cars? No
Only that driving a car thru many parts of a city shouldn’t be as convenient as it is- especially when that’s at the expense of providing space and safety to pedestrians, cyclists and efficient public transport

If you’re selling cheap burgers, you don’t tend to have a tasteful expensive signage called “Chez Francois”.
And if you’re serving haut cuisine, you don’t use bright clashing neon coloured lights

Yes you can. But without other reliable information, a premises will very often signal the quality and affordability of their offering based on the exterior.

Ireland is the most ecologically degraded country in all of Europe and really intensively farmed for dairy, beef and lamb. It’s currently embedded in our psyche that our economic future is tied into sustaining that model, despite it being far from the truth

Is it possible logistically? Of course yes.
Is it politically feasible given public opinion in Ireland? I think we’ve got a long way to go on that one

But have they been reintroduced as wild herds over vast expanses? Or farmed like cattle on small fenced off green deserts with lots of fertilisers and weed killers to make the land more “productive”?

that are politically easier. And diverting grants and subsidies to rewarding ecology restoration instead of raising paying for uneconomic farming of sheep & goats that destroy the ecology of huge tracts of land that are ideal for set aside

I agree with you on the end goal, but have a different opinion on the path to it. I just feel that some radical sounding initiatives are likely to sway public opinion the wrong way right now. There’s more straightforward things that you propose, like fencing out voracious grazers,

I know: but what I tend to go on, when I don’t know the place or have a (reliable) recommendation, is how much effort they’ve put into the exterior.

It’s a sign to me that the establishment is likely to be run down or really cheaply decorated. Just like restaurants where it will make me think it’s likely to be really low quality food

He was too busy handing out trillions $ in contracts to his buddies.
Almost as corrupt and inept as the current numpty

Bush didn’t attempt nation building: he disbanded the army and police and left them walk off barracks and stations with their weapons, a lot of resentment, and the prospect of being unemployed and unable to feed their families. And this against the advice of his own experts

But what could be suggested? That we introduce some other contemporary megafauna that fill a similar ecological niche? Like African or Asian elephant? Or maybe bison or elk? They’re all likely to get similar pushback as when suggesting predators

Says the man in a call for even more funding from investors.
Suckers

of fauna that haven’t been present for hundreds if not thousands of years (and such ideas raising alarms with many people that could scupper even small steps). The whole agenda might get rejected as primitive idealism

It’s not practical to expect people to eat a elephant whole, but instead ask them to take one bite at a time.
A massive difference can be made by stopping the further destruction of ecologically intact areas, and by setting aside land to recover naturally (as best it can) without the reintroduction