Simon McGarr @[email protected]
@Tupp_Ed
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Joined March 2007
Taking a break from the Middle East this weekend – I’ve been seconded from the Foreign Desk and will be reporting on the @RTEDublinBayNth constituency from the RDS. With 20 candidates and just two outgoing TDs standing, this 5-seater will return 3 first-time TDs (at least) #GE24
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Yesterday, my wife tweeted a single line about a local Dublin Bay North election candidate Barry Heneghan, pretty mildly expressed, and received a weird defensive blast reply from him. He wasn’t going to get my No 1, but now he’s not getting single digits.
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Voters in Dublin Bay North should be aware that independent candidate, Barry Heneghan is Finian McGrath’s protege and he’s having a very bad day, imho.
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In Howth, there is a seal who will wave at you if you throw him a fish.
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New @EchoChambersPod with Digital Rights expert, Simon McGarr (@Tupp_Ed) on the Digital Safety Act and how good ideas badly legislated are doomed to failure. Apple: https://t.co/P3V80ShLH6 Spotify: https://t.co/iGpr4euYAa
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Fluent Irish requirement ‘a barrier’ to more working-class young people becoming teachers https://t.co/688f8YQkQr
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A delightful instalment of our epic tortoise of a podcast is ready to pop in your ears. This week features the glorious Suzi Ruffell and her exquisite yesterday. Listen here or simply by holding any chestnut up to your ear. https://t.co/jUJpDGqwKg
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“Over the last five years the tide came in for Sinn Féin and then it went out again, and they never got the good of it... I can’t see the moon pulling the votes in SF’s favour again this year.” The Gist 13/6/24 https://t.co/keKNOk3jBi
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The counts continue, but the dust is settling over some surprising results. This is the Gist.
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@davidmcw Dublin doesn't have a problem with planning permissions. It has a problem with granted permissions not being constructed.
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All of which makes it look like the system is being designed to produce planning permissions, not houses. 6/6
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But whole chapters devoted to curtailing public participation, forcing decisions in unrealistic timescales and preventing legal challenges 5/n
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The new legislation has nothing in it to create obligations or penalties for not building out granted planning permissions 4/n
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When its own data shows that the real issue () at least in Dublin) is that 2 out of 3 extant planning permissions haven't started 3/n
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The whole planning code is being re-written by @DeptHousingIRL on the basis that public participation and access to justice is causing delays in housing 2/n
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Some interesting stats here from the @DeptHousingIRL Housing Supply Coordination Task Force for Dublin Data Q2 2024 82,700 planning permissions in Dublin 7455 (overestimated) in JR (9%) 48753 units not commenced (65%) 8973 complete (12%) 17519 under construction (23%) 1/n
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I am so going to get creamed on a bike at one of these.
Do you know how the new flashing amber arrows work? · Drivers going straight ahead should proceed through the junction as normal, following the traffic lights. · When the amber arrow flashes, drivers turning left must watch out for cyclists going straight ahead or turning before
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Sure enough, one day on, the drumbeat starts. “Concern in Government over costs running into billions”
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Reminder: the intervention of the current FF leader, as Taoiseach, undermined final efforts just 2 years ago to prevent transfer by the state of the National Maternity Hospital into control of one of the orders of nuns. These are not historical choices. https://t.co/rjBcJ54Oqj
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The Cabinet refused to approve the Maternity Hospital deal after a phone mobilisation campaign saw TDs' spooked.
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