Architecture, urbanism and sustainable transport... and politics, everything is political.
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Last Notes npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie - Only 17% of women in Dublin cycle at last once a week npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie - 60% of women in Ireland aged 18 to 24 don't hold a driver's licence npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie On International Women's Day, a reminder that investment in sustainable transport is an equality issue. A transport system that assumes car ownership and doesn't provide safe and accessible alternatives is an unequal system. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie “We are not going to take a position that goes against our values and principles out of fear of reprisals from others” npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie Surely it's not STILL January?! 🥺 npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie @nprofile…la7y stupid decision but a great opportunity for the Greens npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie @nprofile…gfcd I came across it in the work of Dr Rory Rowan who is speaking at this event next week alongside Yaris Varoufakis. Dr Rowan is certainly not a fan. https://mastodon.ie/@rc73/115923504308541530 npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie @nprofile…gfcd I had never heard of Schmitt before today and this is the second mention of him I've come across. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie If the EU doesn't respond strongly to Trump's anschluss of Venezuela, Greenland will be next. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie @nprofile…35ec As late as 1955 Churchill was still fighting to maintain the British Empire, operating 600 concentration camps in Malaya and overseeing the massacre of innocent civilians through a policy of collective punishment, with British soldiers putting the corpses of those killed on public display, and keeping their severed heads as trophies. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie @nprofile…t03n Harsh on the chimpanzees, to be fair npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie If you have a UK postcode you can use you can sign this petition against the British Open Golf Championship being held at Trump's golf course npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie "cost and efficiency over design standards" npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie Journalist: You said you want to arrest Gavin Newsom, what crime has he committed? npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie “The Israeli military attacking a boat full of unarmed activists bringing food and medicine to Gaza is a clear breach of international law.” npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie Live news tracker on the progress of the #Madleen on Al Jazeera https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/6/4/madleen-gaza-flotilla-live-greta-thunberg-activists-to-arrive-on-june-7 npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie The European Broadcasting Union narrowly missed out on an embarrassing scandal of international proportions this evening and it was entirely avoidable. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie Tens of thousands of people marched in Dublin today to call for an end to the Israeli genocide in Gaza npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie Boosting this again for a final push: npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie Only 12,000 people in Ireland have signed this European Citizens Initiative calling for a ban on conversion therapy in Europe. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie Reposting this from @nprofile…gw52 because the original doesn't have Alt Text. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie If you judged by the news coverage over the last 24 hours you would think that Nigel Farage's Reform party had taken over the Conservatives as the second biggest party in Local Government in Great Britain. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie @nprofile…h94j Except maybe the Basques npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie @nprofile…y54t Wow, it looks even more like the west of Ireland in that first photo! npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie If you think this photo looks like it could have been taken in Corca Dhuibhne you literally couldn't be more wrong. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie "The worst of the internet is continuously attacking the best of the internet...If you’re using the products powered by these attacks, you’re part of the problem. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie Germany is deporting three EU citizens and an American because of their political beliefs. The AfD may not have won the election but that seems to be becoming a moot point. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie 66% of voters in Paris have voted in favour of greening and pedestrianising 500 streets in the capital. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie "The first year of a scheme in Wales where the speed limit on urban roads was lowered to 20mph resulted in about 100 fewer people killed or seriously injured." npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie Space advertising - imagine thinking this is a good idea? Imagine thinking this is where humanity should focus its technological ingenuity right now? npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie A Fianna Fáil politician on RTÉ Radio right now describing climate action as "ideological". These idiots are going to cost us a lot of money and put a lot of lives at risk with their reckless approach to the climate emergency. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie This detail about the victim of road violence in Letterkenny this morning hits hard. I hope his brother pulls through. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie Set fire to someone who has been dead for 800 years? Jailed for six years npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie If you're in the UK can I encourage you to sign this petition to Parliament to introduce presumed liability for civil cases relating to certain road collisions. It would mean when vulnerable road users, e.g cyclists & pedestrians, claim against a more powerful road user (a driver), the driver would be presumed liable unless they prove otherwise. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie I missed who the speaker was but there was a guy on Claire Byrne's radio show earlier talking about the "viability" of housing development and the need to incentivise private developers. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie "Going into these systems without an in-depth understanding of how they work both individually and interconnectedly is a recipe for disaster that will result in death and economic harm to our nation" npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie Harold's Cross, Dublin this morning npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie Looks like we're in for a rough night npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie 2025 is just a day old and already we have what may be the defining image of the year npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie @nprofile…np35 @nprofile…vdm6 In Ireland we've created a whole new set of pronouns to express the second person plural, as @nprofile…vu2w explains here https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2016/01/25/ye-youse-and-yiz-in-irish-english-speech/#more-22084 npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie Strong hitting campaign from the National Organizations for Youth Safety (US) npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie The Hague will become the world’s first city to write into law a ban on advertising that promotes fossil fuels, petrol cars, air travel and cruise ships, in the latest in a wave of crackdowns by cities around the world. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie There's an article in the Irish Times today about two incidents at a house on Ormond Quay in Dublin City Centre over the weekend. The article is, in my view, unnecessarily circumspect but here's what I know about the incidents. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie Councillors Malachy Steenson, Gavin Pepper and Glen Moore have all been reported to be in attendance at the Coolock site, claiming to represent the people of Coolock. None of them was elected in that area and one is from a different local authority altogether. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie 'The Bullshit Weaver' by Denis Lushch, 2019, oil on gessoed paper npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie @npub1hpc…hjn3 I've got slightly different figures but that looks about right https://mastodon.ie/@ccferrie/112732929115899187 npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie This is a good piece by @npub1hue…2py0 on the fare-free public transport debate which is a lot more nuanced than the usual rhetoric. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie Boycotting works! npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie I can't remember who posted this recently but I'm reminded of it today when I see the handwringing about #JustStopOil's action in Stonehenge. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie This is such good news after the disappointing European elections last week. Huge respect to the Austrian Environment Minister for doing what is right, rather than what is politically expedient, and to Eamon Ryan and the outgoing Irish Green MEPs, Grace O'Sullivan and Ciarán Cuffe, who worked hard to get this over the line. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie Labour's Helen Ogbu has been elected to Galway City Council with both Noel Larkin and Michael Crowe losing their seats. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie I'm just seeing that in Galway, Cllr Noel Larkin is likely to lose his seat on the council. Larkin is renowned for his anti-traveller views and aligned himself with Independent Ireland for this election. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie My daughter playing rock, paper, scissors with another little girl in New York via the Dublin/New York Portal npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie It's not that long ago that the British establishment would equate being Irish with being in the IRA, so when Israel equates Palestine with Hamas in an attempt to stop Ireland from recognising the state of Palestine it only reinforces the importance of that recognition. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie Next time you hear Michael O'Leary's guff about sustainable aviation, remember this chart and the fact that Ryanair's CO2 emissions have increased by 23% over the last five years. That their emissions are 57% higher than the next most polluting airline and that they are one of only three of the top ten with rising emissions. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie Michael O'Leary's constant barracking of the Green Party put in context npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie This is why I hate these "Cyclists beware" graphics on the back of vans. This driver obviously DGAF about anyone walking or cycling and these graphics are just an attempt to absolve him of responsibility. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie "Factory production has allowed all kinds of engineered products, from cars to electronics, to become much more sophisticated and also much less expensive. So why do we insist on building houses the old-fashioned way?" npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie @npub1e5d…y99j Happy Christmas, Brian, and thanks for sharing your poetry here on Mastodon. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie A couple of banjo-themed Christmas songs - first, this sublime version of Joni Mitchell's 'River' by the maestro Béla Fleck npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie I heard Adrian Weckler talking about this earlier in the week and can't get around the fact they think it's a bad thing. EVs are getting cheaper and cheaper, and the rapid change in price means people are disincentivised from upgrading their car every two years. These are two massive positives for anyone concerned about the environmental cost of car-dependency. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie #RathminesBikeLaneCount 1 vehicle npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie Truly the end of an era. I first visited Marks Bros over 30 years ago and have been drinking Simon's coffee and eating his sandwiches every since. Simon is a Dublin institution and I hope this doesn't spell the end, or even a dramatic change, to the wonderful café he built. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie This also has an unhelpful impact on Google Maps journey options which tell you to disembark at James' Street and walk down Steeven's Lane, and the reverse on the return journey, presumably because that's quicker than taking the route all the way to the station. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie I got the new S2 bus this morning from Rathmines to Heuston Station and it's really great to finally have a frequent, reliable and direct public transport link to the station but the route does an odd thing after you come through St James' Hospital. At the top of Steeven's Lane, when you're already in sight of the station it heads all the way in to Bridge Street and then back out the quays. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie @npub1kll…vun7 @npub1e6t…jh43 I wasn't taking notes! 😀 npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie There's a woman opposite me on the train, on the phone to her friend for the last half hour, sharing laundry and home cleaning tips at the top of her voice. It's like a @npub1e6t…jh43 sketch in real life. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie Gee whizz, Irish Times, I wonder what the reason could be? npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie It's not an image that comes up readily when you search for it online. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie If you didn't see the documentary on the kidnapping of Thomas Niedermayer earlier in the week I recommend watching it back. But be warned, it is a harrowing story, not just for the immediate impact of the events but for the generational trauma it caused which still impacts on the family today. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie @npub1gp4…7wjx @npub1xr8…3q0g @npub1c5l…llq0 Coal only accounts for about 4% of our electricity generation, compared to 50% for natural gas and 37% for wind. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie @npub1gp4…7wjx @npub1xr8…3q0g @npub1c5l…llq0 npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie @npub1gp4…7wjx @npub1xr8…3q0g @npub1c5l…llq0 I think the figures are coming from this data on electricity generation. It doesn't include the use of coal for home heating https://www.seai.ie/data-and-insights/seai-statistics/monthly-energy-data/electricity/ npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie @npub1xr8…3q0g @npub1gp4…7wjx @npub1c5l…llq0 it's better than your manners npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie @npub15gx…3x7w I fear they've already learned too much from him npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie - 20 new rural bus services launched in December alone. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie “The figures this year are quite startling: our coal use is down 50 per cent in power generation, our oil use is down 80 per cent and solar for the first time ever has gone from 20 million units of solar energy to 400 million units of solar energy this year." - Eamon Ryan npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie @npub148r…m85g I had some correspondence with him at the time also - must dig it out again npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie This means one of two things: npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie Remember that time Dublin City Council handed over most of the public space at Portobello Harbour for two years to facilitate a private commercial development? npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie I've seen several reports of Micheál Martin praising the response of Éamon Ó Cuív to the events in Rosscahill but I can't find any reports of what Deputy Ó Cuív actually said. Has anyone else seen anything? npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie I've just listened back to the piece on Newstalk. I wouldn't recommend it. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie I hear Conor Faughnan was on radio again this morning criticising the reduction in default speed limits across the country. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie @npub1v24…vsun Agus RTÉ ag tabhairt an ardáin dó chun é a dhéanamh 🙄 npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie "The growing divide between rural and urban areas is becoming an increasing threat to political trust and social cohesion. Far-right political movements are taking advantage of rural discontent to win seats in parliaments. With European Parliament elections taking place in 2024, this shift to the right could shape the EU for many years to come." npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie This is why we can't have nice things. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie It's over five years since the Caiseal Mara Hotel in Moville was fire-bombed, and arson attacks have been taking place with increasing regularity since then (apart from a brief lockdown respite). npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie While Micheál Martin has issued a statement of condemnation, there has been notable silence about the events in Rosscahill from Fianna Fáil TD for the area, Éamon Ó Cuív. We can only assume that he is doesn't take any issue with what his party colleagues Seamus Walsh and Noel Thomas have been saying. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie The councillor's name is Noel Thomas, he was in the news a couple of years ago for this response to journalist Sinéad Ryan's support of the government's vaccination policy. What a surprise that a racist is also an anti-vaxxer. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie And there we have it, a Fianna Fáil councillor from Rosscahill on Morning Ireland telling us that "Ireland is full" and that we can't house 70 "young males" in a disused hotel. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie @npub1d80…u7gp @npub16gp…hyhe The Hope and Courage Collective are doing some good work here. https://fro.ie/ npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie @npub16gp…hyhe I was just having this conversation with friends earlier. It has become acceptable to use phrases like "Ireland is full" and "we have to look after our own" in "polite" conversation. I don't know how we come back from this. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie Our pets have never really seen eye to eye npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie The guy from DAA taking about the proposed 25% increase in passenger numbers at Dublin Airport on RTÉ Radio 1 is telling us with a straight face that sustainable transport is a core part of their plans. npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie "A solicitor speaking on behalf of the protests said the the hotel is in a Special Area of Conservation" npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie Greens TD Brian Leddin aims to be first ever directly-elected Limerick mayor npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie "Sultan Al Jaber insisted that his exchange with Mrs Robinson had been misrepresented, misinterpreted and misreported. Mrs Robinson responded by saying absolutely nothing...Rarely has saying "nothing" been so powerful." npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie Yep, definitely just concerned residents npub18apz63ncy7vw207rkd43kcd3g4uzlpjx4fa95d5ujhctans656tqm0vcjx Ciarán Ferrie No room at the inn according to the definitely not-racist people blocking the entrance to Ross Lake House Hotel in Rosscahill, Co. Galway which has been lying empty for years.
