Here's my thoughts on why town is challenging atm.🧵.

Is there any sense to be made yet of removing all functionality of Newmarket - pedestrianisation; parking; markets etc and replacing it with a (what seems like always in Dublin) temporary intervention of an ugly tarmac runway with the pissy 'flower boxes'?

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Jack Chambers: Govt will prioritise “cost & efficiency over design standards & aesthetics” when it comes to future infrastructure spending" . Me: That's negligent; a sign of failure; an inability to lead & will negatively impact for generations to come.

RT @samstein: Are men maybe too emotional for positions of leadership?.

"There is a misogyny that dismisses any female-led form of art or protest as frivolous, inferior and even distasteful.".

RT @RBReich: The Trump regime's repeated attacks on "DEI," "wokeness," immigrants, and the trans community have one clear purpose:. If we a….

If anti-trans peri/menopausal women could imagine for one sec what it would feel like to have their HRT - that makes them feel like themselves - taken away from them maybe they wouldn't be so anti-trans.

Its worth jogging our memories with the requirements to run for President in Ireland.

Please can businesses stop using @AnPostvox for package deliveries. This is the second time a package has 'been delivered'. Atrocious.

RT @AndreaHoran: Media flat out focusing on the impact of alcohol in a very parochial & archaic manner is embarrassing. This bill is about….

Has every budget been cut in @Postvox ? The number of ppl joining me in frustration over apparent 'delivered' packages just not arriving is bizarre, a noticeable change since January and customer service being like sorry, bye. What's the tea?.

RT @sunilsharpe: We do have a bit of recent form in Dublin. Late At The Gate, going back a bit further Midnight at the Olympia gigs, and qu….

RT @frankmcdonald60: This is what happens when the “public realm” actually isn’t ….

Companies demanding payment immediately from me when they've an unpaid invoice of mine for work done in August are GAS.

RT @GiveUsTheNight: We regret to say that this government has led us on, let us down and reneged on its word to reform licensing laws. As….

RT @frankmcdonald60: This is the most shocking and most disgraceful abuse of the legislative process I have ever witnessed in Ireland. It w….

It is absolutely bananas that so many long term commercially viable businesses are now teethering on the edge of surviving. And whilst hospitality is getting all the airtime, it's so much more widespread. I cant stop asking who is benefitting from this hostile landscape?.

RT @bbboatclub: Here’s your foreigners to get pissed off with. This is why you can’t get a house or afford rent. Foreign investment funds.….

RT @theclimatealarm: This week we're revisiting this episode with @andreahoran. Andrea very kindly joined us in a bid to help us normalise….

RT @CiaranCuffe: Dublin's new Traffic Plan is working: journey times down, footfall up. What's not to like?.

RT @TropicalPopical: We're nominated for Best Nail Salon at this year's @image_magazine Business of Beauty Awards. Giz a vote: https://t.c….