David W. Higgins
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33 | Independent Economist | NEXT ROUND Podcast | #MilestoneRecession 📻 RTÉ / Newstalk ✍️ Irish Independent / Verecon (Substack)
Dublin City, Ireland
Joined July 2015
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Judicial review lawyers rn
Uisce Éireann has announced that it will submit a planning application next week for the largest-ever water project in Irish history https://t.co/DxV2Yn1uOw
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I've only just come across this flicking through the channels. An excellent way to feel wholly embarrassed for your own life comforts as you sit in awe of people who have given their lives to the world's poor
Tonight at 9.35pm … Meet The Last Irish Missionaries - making the new #RTÉ documentary
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Renewables spur a local backlash. Nuclear is banned. Coal dirty and inefficient. LNG/gas pipelines/oil is all import dependency. How do we get enough domestic energy capacity for the future? Demand is only going one way (chart by EirGrid).
"We don't have to be here." That was the message from Power Capital’s @OmnesCapital, @power_capital Planning Manager at the "public consultation" for the Ballymoneen Solar Farm Proposed Extension. He stood in front of a room of concerned locals and told them that public
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One infrastructure win Ireland should be very proud of. But energy, housing and transport are far behind where they need to be.
89% of Irish premises can now get 1Gbs. Broadband availability, as a news story, is over
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Oh boy, take an even deeper breath 🫁 https://t.co/iA4waaVo5d
Trust in Government Switzerland🇨🇭: 82.5 Finland🇫🇮: 70.5 Ireland🇮🇪: 61 Mexico🇲🇽: 59.5 Norway🇳🇴: 58 Denmark🇩🇰: 54.5 Germany🇩🇪: 52 Sweden🇸🇪: 52 Netherlands🇳🇱: 51 Belgium🇧🇪: 50.5 New Zealand🇳🇿: 50.5 Costa Rica🇨🇷: 49.5 Australia🇦🇺: 49 Canada🇨🇦: 47.5 Estonia🇪🇪: 46 Austria🇦🇹: 46
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Take a deep breath, there will be an account that comes along to dispute this
Democracy Index 2024 1. Norway🇳🇴 2. New Zealand🇳🇿 3. Sweden🇸🇪 4. Iceland🇮🇸 5. Switzerland🇨🇭 6. Finland🇫🇮 7. Denmark🇩🇰 8. Ireland🇮🇪 9. Netherlands🇳🇱 10. Luxembourg🇱🇺 11. Australia🇦🇺 12. Taiwan🇹🇼 13. Germany🇩🇪 14. Canada🇨🇦 15. Uruguay🇺🇾 16. Japan🇯🇵 17. UK🇬🇧 18. Costa Rica🇨🇷 19.
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The number of Irish households experiencing enforced deprivation is in decline. 14.8% cannot afford items such as new clothes, new furniture, or keeping their home warm. It's too high a number, but one that's improving as inflation has decreased. https://t.co/YhY5BhhvYN
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Only 6 great-grandchildren from every 100 South Koreans alive today. Exponential decline unfolds when fertility rates fall firmly below replacement. Ireland's fertility rate is 1.5, on its way to 1.3. Not as bad as SK, but still a route to decline. https://t.co/m5RelCNdeg
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In the world of demographics, observers are united in the view that when fertility rates fall far below replacement, it’s a bad sign for a country.
Every 100 South Koreans today will have only 6 great-grandchildren between them. Men and women are coupling up at the lowest rates ever. Korea's baby subsidies – $22k per kid – are usually seen as having failed. But, actually, there is some evidence that they are working and
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The median Irish citizen is now a Catherine Connolly voter who wants a tougher approach to immigration
POLL/POBALBHREITH: Q. Should the Government adopt a tougher approach to immigration? Yes: 76% No: 16% Not sure: 8% Source: @Ireland_Thinks/@TheSundayIndo
#Ireland #Poll
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And then it got to excellent at the end: - Irish language - Northern Ireland Questions to distinguish his form of nationalism from the others. But it was all too combative by then...
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In 2 words, what is your purpose in life?
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Also just listened. Sensitive indeed. On the questions... Great = If writing from abroad means you really get Ireland. Ok = Antifa... (Listeners might need a second listen to fully get the controversy) Meh = Relevance of PhD First half insightful, second half fell apart.
@Nick_Delehanty @EoinLenihan @hlinehan I just listened. Hugh Linehan’s questioning seemed reasonable, and Eoin Lenihan seemed very sensitive.
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I got a little buzz from this quote walking through Dublin last night: - Handwritten chalk menu in a café = someone's passion project - A recently widened footpath = someone's passion project - Real-time display for bus times = someone's passion project And so on
The world is a museum of passion projects, 💯
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Which Russian drone incidents does Daniel believe in, if he can't believe the Irish one?
Some "facts" from our media on the "Russian Drones" that were out to get Zelensky's plane and their logic: 1. We have zero actual data/evidence or a single photo of any drone. 2. They were as large "as pallets" military spec but flew with navigational lights on them. 🤔 (1/6)
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An episode of the Irish Times Inside Politics podcast that has been recorded but may not be released, if this tweet is any indication...
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Global rankings just drive these accounts insane. No engagement with the underlying methodology. Some rankings do have flaws, so let's hear any for this one... But if your #1 critique is SOROS, then it might be all you've got?
Another politician trying to gaslight the Irish into thinking that we are living a lie. Here Jim is trying to convince us that Ireland is the second most peaceful country in the world, a huge amount of people feel unsafe Jim, so maybe don’t bother using an international NGO
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Incorrect guess of my middle name over on Instagram 🔥
Going on @PatKennyNT after 9am to talk about my piece in this morning's @Independent_ie David W Higgins: Taxi drivers need to get over ‘go-slow’ protests and embrace fixed pricing https://t.co/6QrPSqglPy
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Going on @PatKennyNT after 9am to talk about my piece in this morning's @Independent_ie David W Higgins: Taxi drivers need to get over ‘go-slow’ protests and embrace fixed pricing https://t.co/6QrPSqglPy
independent.ie
There’s a buzz when you land in a new European city, especially one further east where prices are cheaper. As a group of us walked out of Bratislava airpor...
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