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The money would be ring fencing the money for housing infrastructure. People objecting to new developments would be paying more each year. I think its fair to say it would be political suicide to try it though

I agree that one of the problems when it comes to sorting out housing is that it currently only directly affects the younger population. It occurs to me that you could make it every bodies problem by increasing property tax by 50% each year until the problem is fixed.

Ancient Irish proverb.

Laois, probably the county most in need of Coastal Protection

🧪source here.....
app.electricitymaps.com/zone/IS/72h/...

a map showing Ireland as a poor performer in Carbon efficiency

🧪this is a fascinating resource, detailing the carbon efficiency of national grids over the last 72 hours.

Healy-Rae's peatland forestry plan 'about the dumbest thing we can do', says climate scientist Michael Healy-Rae, the Forestry Minister, said farmers should be allowed to plant peatlands.

Sometimes you just have to call a spade a spade instead of describing it as a manual digging implement made of metal and wood powered by human power etc etc. www.thejournal.ie/michael-heal...

Rare recording of an Irish hare, on secondment from the Ministry of Funny Walks, stalking a dandelion. His ability to cling to the upside down lawn is most impressive 🤪

Proton drive for Linux being passed over yet again 🙁

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

I am a linux user with a paid proton drive account. Care to let me know how to automate my backups to proton drive?

The rest of the country is just fine thanks, busses running from almost every country in Ireland direct to the airport. How about "lets make it cheaper", Nobody has anything to say on that despite the fact Madrid recently build a metro extension for less than 40 million per km.

Data Broker Brags About Having Highly Detailed Personal Information on Nearly All Internet Users The advertising industry is immensely powerful, and disturbingly opaque.

Source: gizmodo.com/data-broker-...

Shockingly lazy journalism. Took 3 minutes to find the application. planning.agileapplications.ie/southdublin/.... The retention was rejection as they did not make the application properly.

I wonder if he said that on his way in to negotiate Ireland's departure from the Union

Its also a poor reflection on the Green minister who was in charge at the time.

Yes more rapidly moving hot air is just what will sort this out

What next, if the DPP decides to prosecute Micheal Lowery, he will probably want to sit on the jury

Some stroke the Regional independents are trying to pull. I wonder if the DPP decides to prosecute Micheal Lowery is he going to want to sit in the jury as well as the dock.

I never see any mention of the energy savings to be had in moving data and backups from small servers in every business in the country to one large server in a data centre. Granted it is not offsetting the new demand from streaming services and storage used to backup every photo on your phone

Headline from RTE news

So glad Simon Harris took the time to tell me what I am concerned about.
www.rte.ie/news/politic...

The two main parties were voted back in by the largest cohort of voters. They have good reason for thinking that people want them to continue on the same track.

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post Democracy can't function without a free press

Bezos has really upped the ante for billionaires debasing themselves to gain favor with Trump.👇

Cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit the Washington Post because it refused to print a cartoon mocking tech and media billionaires for sucking up to Trump. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

Here she is, Suella Braverman, talking about:

The wall "on the land border between Italy and Turkey."

She's "seen it," apparently... meanwhile, absolute scenes on #lbc

Lots of pheasants on my lawn

Lots of pheasants on my lawn

If only they would stay still long enough to count. #IrishGardenBirdSurvey

(With apologies to Bernard Mulvaney if he is on here. I couldn’t find an a/c).

#GE24 #GE2024

Table showing comparison between 2024 and 2024 general election in Ireland.

I didn’t see the full results of #GE24 tabulated like this anywhere else so decided to do it myself. Hopefully someone else on #speirgorm will find it useful. #EandOE

Feel the need to point out to Mr Gould that over 80% of the people did not vote for Sinn Fein. #GE24

I wonder is the state of the electoral register having an increasingly large effect on turnout numbers as time goes by.