They just changed the law to massively favour institutional landlords over tenants. Their plan on housing delivery is to get foreign money to deliver overpriced build-to-rents. They want to turn the Irish population into a cash machine for foreign investors. It’s outrageous.
The uncle Grimacey thing is about a McDonalds mascot that was pulled and the urban legend is it made some pro-IRA statements in Philadelphia. I shared it to a mate earlier. It’s a world of difference is my point.
I understand why peeps want to ridicule him given he’s constantly on the attack. I think people were pretty stupid to share that Epstein stuff with a trigger finger. We all fall for disinformation and share it sometimes - but I’m not an elected politician. And this wasn’t Uncle Grimacey is a provo!
Any examples? I mean this would’ve been a huge element of all the Trouble and Bass stuff back in the day. Though that was more bloghouse.
If you mean like proper PROPER electro then it makes sense already. A lot of that eightbar grime and sublow stuff is in a very similar sparse vein anyways.
Thanks to @michaellanigan.bsky.social and the DI crew for this piece. Blessed be the foxes and seagulls of the city.
"Recording The-Vices Fitted To Air-ee-el Platfourums" must be the new "VEHT-icles"over in Nardai land.
Can they just not call it a drone like normal people?
I mean look, evicting 36 families so landlords can raise the rent by 25% will benefit "the rental sector" in the very short term too, as long as you understand that by "rental sector" he exclusively means "landlords who just got a 24% payrise" rather than "families who just got evicted overnight"
I’m sure the two party system might’ve meant they were the only ladder to climb in her area. Careerist be careering.
Labour have such a miserable opinion of us. They think that, deep down, we all basically agree with the dumb shit some voters come out with and we're just pretending to be better than that. Probably because, not even that deep down, that's how they think too.
Can't wait for the breakdown of the Green insurgency across the pond on @novaramedia.com. It cuts across much of our received political wisdom. Great storytelling that connected complex issues with daily life. Stop treating people as “thick” and you win them over!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuEM...
They’re calling the Gorton and Denton By-Election the greatest victory by a Plumber since Mario rescued Princess Peach from Bowsers Castle.
A victory for decency, reason, empathy, equality, and justice is a victory for these things everywhere.
As with Mamdani in New York, the Gorton and Denton result provides inspiration, and shows we *can* build a better world, wherever we are.
Great news from the UK 👏
I heard it was set in a Star Trek season where the halo deck had just been deployed across fleet.
Largest landlord in the country: "Mmmmmm I love feasting on the juicy profits from these new rent rules!"
Opposition: "Hey look at that guy feasting on the juicy profits from the new rent rules"
Government: "How dare you, quit scaremongering!"
Hard to take Simon Harris and his concerns about tax payers money “going up in smoke” in Oriel Park seriously - given how his government just pours cash into private landlords as if it was starter fuel for a BBQ.
These are great little deep dives into various spots around the city. Well worth reading back on.
Writer Alan O'Gorman, accepting the IFTA for best film for Christy, talked about the importance recognising and destigmatising the experience of being in the care system, said "Free Palestine, Free Palestine, Saoirse don Phalaistín, get the US army out of Shannon."
RTÉ cut this part of his speech..
I’m loving Talbot Streets neon awakening. Looks sick in the gloaming of late February.
OUR LAND
A film about the Right to Roam campaign.
Preview screenings from March - April.
Cinemas nationwide from May.
Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=est-...
Screenings: www.metfilmstudio.com/distribution...
The first Mayday March was in Dublin in 1890 for an eight hour day.
136 years later and we really need to build a wall against this American nonsense that being worked around the clock is either productive or worth it.
On any level.
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
The Steel City. ✊❤️
They've also been in breach of their planning permission over the last five years for incredibly bright lights shining into people's houses and using fake trees instead of real landscaping.
The people here have had enough and they want safer streets.
The kids are alright.
As another person who built the thing the government didn't bother to do, and then tried repeatedly to engage with them on it, I can predict that they will ignore the existing solution, and then ultimately build one that's probably worse and hopelessly late...
Looking forward to see this on Sunday
Exactly. This argument and it comes from ISME all the time is privileging foreign and multi-national companies over local and independent. Or just even peoples' bloody sanity. It doesn't stand up to any form of scrutiny. It's carpark lobby logic.
Someone from the Kemmy Business School on @news.rte.ie just spoke about #remotework harming cities.
Social policy shouldn’t hinge on huge chains like Costa keeping your lunch money. Good local independent cafes are thriving right now.
People's leisure time wasted on the M50 is what kills a city.
Educate. Evict. Emigrate.
The Irish way
Or Mother Gee-yo-teen as I likes to call her. Whose bloody vadge gave us democracy and justice.
Eoin McLaughlin and Richard Mc Mahon crunched the numbers on evictions for @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social earlier this month.
The authors concluded that: “It is not unreasonable to suggest that we are now seeing eviction rates that have not been seen in Ireland since the 1850s.”
