Dom Gradwell

You got the silver medal. MOT

Wise words from Heaney. Lip service from all over the world. Very little action.

Come on the Royal! 💚💛

A very special presentation took place on Saturday in McHughs at the #festivalofideas when Andy Spearman received the Lifetime Recognition Award for his fearless journalism at @DroghedaLifecom & his photographic documenting of life in Drogheda. Words courtesy of @omarelakkad

droghedalife.com/news/an-tais...

Occupied Territories Bill Now Demand the Irish government stops blocking the Occupied Territories Bill and finally ban trade with illegal settlers on Palestinian land.

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/en... @uplift-ireland.bsky.social

Join us for an interesting, interactive delve into the positive possibilities for a reimagined Drogheda.

developmentperspectives.ie/what-we-do/p...

In other news @droghedaunited.bsky.social beat champions @shelsfc.bsky.social in their own patch to go top. Not a Dublin club so it doesn't matter. Shoddy reportage.

Dublin’s €26m revamp of Victorian fruit and vegetable market to start six years after closure Regeneration of 127-year-old market proposed in 2002 to be completed in 2027

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...

Drogheda standing with Palestine!

Once upon a time
The people of Ireland
Looked out their windows
To see decay & dereliction
& they said
There is a raw beauty in this
So they instantly decreed
To let their country crumble
Before their eyes
& those of their children
& grandchildren
This is #DerelictIreland
Call it out

ffud.art

Last orders for courgette bread and Red Velvet cake — High costs force Galway’s famous Goyas bakery to turn off ovens after three decades

If small independent businesses are even struggling in bustling Galway we need a big rethink on how we do things in 'Ireland Inc'.

Opinion: If housing is the election issue then dereliction should be near the top of that list Irish dereliction is the result of failed political policies, say Jude Sherry and Dr Frank O’Connor.

Irelands still rewarding land hoarding
8 yrs into a housing crisis
No wonder so few voted

"our collective hope of solving the housing crisis in the next government is low. This could lead many to a despair-induced apathy towards the election"
#DerelictIreland #GE24
www.thejournal.ie/readme/derel...

All laudable but this thinking needs to become mainstream policy, not niche. If we are to save our built environment we have no option.