I think things really started to go wrong for the world when croissants started being made with sourdough.

Indie restaurants & cafes are closing at a rate of knots. The Increased Cost of Business Grant is so targeted & effective at helping small biz with rates of under 30k, it seems like an ideal model to look at rolling out for hospitality VAT rates.

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Criminal Begins Planning Suspended Sentence Party After Getting Judge Nolan waterfordwhispersnews.com/2022/07/13/cri…

A taskforce..?🤔Good idea!
Maybe in the form of some kind of Council..? Maybe it could be elected by the people who live in Dublin..?

Is there nothing to be said for just giving more power to local government instead of setting up another duplicating structure for Dublin?!🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️

My forthcoming edited volume on cultural responses to the far right in contemporary Germany now has a webpage and a cover! Looking forward to it being out in the world soon: brill.com/display/title/…

🇫🇷 'It's important to recognise clubs and discotheques as popular cultural actors,'

Dati said that this development will improve the operating conditions of these venues...

🇮🇪 We're fighting to even have them open at actual clubbing hours...

#ClubbingIsCulture

As has been widely publicised, we, thisispopbaby (& 40 other artists), are losing our fab home & studio space at Dean Arts Studios on Chatham Row. We are on the hunt for a new home. If you have/have lead on office space in the city, please get in touch. 🙏🏻irishtimes.com/culture/2023/1…

Canada, New Zealand, Switzerland and Australia have all taken action to limit overseas buyers snapping up homes.

We cannot allow overseas millionaires exploit the housing crisis.

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RTÉ Investigates: Ireland’s Abortion Services. Next Monday April 15th on RTÉ One & RTÉ Player at 9:35pm. #rteinvestigates Lucy Kennedy

Plus 32k people at the Aviva.

€40 for a ticket package for two games. On at 7.30pm at night.

Every argument ever put forward and every point the goalposts were moved to absolutely smashed to pieces at this stage. We can move on. People watch women play sport.

'We should also remember that we already had extended opening hours with theatre licences, with the glory days of the Gaiety and Spirit up until 2008.'

Reminds us of key data from the vaults that supported sequential/staggered closing / late opening + the use of theatre licence.

Got pretty frustrated with all the loaded narratives coming out about opening nightclubs later so wrote a letter...

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All the guests on #rteupfront making it unanimously clear that the issue for everyone is the lack of services, amenities and infrastructure rather than immigration, an issue being taken advantage of by saboteurs.

This is such good news! 👍

(Whispers, in French, please don't fuck this up)

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Nowhere in the article do they mention that all around the outskirts of Dublin there are lots of huge data centres with more being built and that each one uses about the same amount of water as a town. eolasmagazine.ie/data-centre-wa…

Why people voted no 🗳
Millions of op ed pieces could have been saved.