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Decisions are not really made by NGOs They’re often just used to give the illusion or rubber stamping of civic participation for goals that were agreed long in advance In my opinion, the real decisions are made by the Secretary-Generals of government departments, who are…
This week's column: Do we really need politicians any more now that all the important decisions are made by judges, NGOs and assorted other busybodies? independent.ie/opinion/commen…
Commencements for building new houses is at the same level as the lockdowns in 2020, and the construction industry is now starting to lay off people, according to Yates.
Looks like I was correct. The water infrastructure issue is now becoming more of a mainstream issue. By the end of the year, it will be increasingly accepted/a common opinion that not only is the housing market not improving, it is going to start going backwards very quickly.
I agree. Also the myth that joining the EEC in 1973 revitalized the economy and was a good thing. In reality, it crippled the Irish economy for the next decade or so. youtube.com/watch?v=jjkqe8…
Whitaker did not make modern Ireland. Whitaker made the dismal 60s-80s in Ireland. Haughey by embracing Reinert’s economics created modern Ireland. Unfortunately, many in Ireland have been working to dismantle Haughey’s legacy since the adoption of the Euro.
Yeah, the goal was debt reduction, securing supply chains and depreciating the dollar like the Plaza accord, so countries can pay debts and deal in dollars easier. You can question the execution sure, but there is a plan and logic to all of this.
Anyone familiar with Trumps economic advisors knows Dollar devaluation is a goal to reduce the debt, similar playbook to the Plaza accords. It is beyond embarrassing that we have the likes of Simon Harris leading the country at a time of such negotiations around trade.
Tariffs of 15% in one direction. Dollar devalued. Looks like the orange man won. And we're not even at pharma yet.
EU document on exchange rates. Notes that the US Secretary of the Treasury and Stephen Miran supporting the idea of dollar devaluation being a policy objective. Things are starting to make a lot more sense now, in terms of how the tariffs have been implemented.
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would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for david clifford
wat just happened
Anyone who says America is the greatest country in the world has never seen a game of hurling.
One of the great sorrows of my life has been watching my beautiful home country of Ireland be destroyed by it's own unfettered immigration policy. As of the end of last year there were 1.2M immigrants out of a total population of 5.38M.
BREAKING: ENOCH BURKE WINS CASE IN COURT OF APPEAL The Court of Appeal has acknowledged that Enoch Burke’s refusal to call a student a new name and use the “they” pronoun was central to his purported dismissal. Enoch Burke speaking from Castlebar tonight.
MASSIVE claim in this paper. AI Architectural breakthroughs can be scaled computationally, transforming research progress from a human-limited to a computation-scalable process. So it turns architecture discovery into a compute‑bound process, opening a path to…
Fair point but the concern was not to do with data centres. It was to do with AI research and manufacturing.
Most large investment projects are not power hungry data centres so your assertion is erroneous.
So basically, the infrastructure is so bad now that any large investment projects are almost not possible anymore in Dublin. If Amazon think this, then I guarantee you other companies and other organizations think this, and will take Amazon's lead in this.
Amazon scraps Dublin plant and hundreds of jobs over failure to secure power supply irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/0…
Yeah, last time you dismissed McWilliams it didn't end well for us did it. History doesn't repeat but it certainly rhymes. Obviously don't agree with McWilliams on a lot, but on this point, he's spot on. (this clip is from 2003 btw)
Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe rejects the view of economist David McWilliams that Ireland’s immigration rate will have to be “halved at least” in order for infrastructure to keep up with population growth, arguing that population growth has instead bolstered the economy.
Ireland's infrastructure in the coming months and years.
‘We’re competing against our children’ Richard Douthwaite in ‘The Growth Illusion’ predicting to the letter in 1999 how Ireland’s unsustainable ‘economic growth’ would end in total misery, which it did by 2008.
One year too late. Still, its happened. But it won't work unless you deal with mass immigration.
What needs to happen right now is that a set of plans and measures need to be drawn up to deal with this. Infrastructure improvements, housing tax slashes to slow down the potential exodus. Then a manufacturing base needs to be expanded. It's potentially a very serious problem.
Construction industry contracting, credit hard to obtain, 4 person mortgages, state spending doubled, huge migrant hotels, David McWilliams telling us we might need to cut immigration a tad. Yep, I'm thinking we're back to a recession, property crash and another lost generation.
In the end Micheál Martin's greatest achievement will be engineering a crash without having a boom first. This one will go down in the annals.
To back up your tweet here Paul, restaurant owner Oliver Dunne has reported the same number as you (down 20%), with the findings being dismissed by economists as rubbish. Nothing new under the sun.
Like I said months ago, businesses will start to go DURING the season and if I was right, then the oncoming disaster will be sure to follow of hundreds more and it’s happening already. I hope to god I’m wrong Three different food outlets from the same town told me they’re…