leomac @leogmac

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leomac @leogmac

2 months ago

@SineadOS1 Ignores the much larger trend (down 50%+ since 2005) and doesn't adjust for population changes.

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The enshittification of Ireland and the hollowing out of our institutions is the single largest threat to Irish civil society and prosperity. In this damning piece, I'm going into more detail about the graph I posted yesterday: why it's happening in Ireland, why the way we're thinking about the protests is entirely wrong, and what this means for our collective governance. Link to the article is below!

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leomac @leogmac

2 months ago

@BridgetPhetasy It's the exact opposite; Ireland lags the US 5-10 years politically and culturally

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leomac @leogmac

7 months ago

@Conor1960 @ClippyXmark @MarkLTighe @pb4p They lose money every year. You can say it's ringfenced all you like; without state funding they couldn't afford to do this.

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leomac @leogmac

7 months ago

@MarkLTighe So the IRFU receives ~€4m annually in state funding and its competing in the housing market with ordinary buyers 🤔

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leomac @leogmac

7 months ago

@DaraghCassidy The bigger question from this is why does Failte Ireland need Climate Action Officers

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leomac @leogmac

7 months ago

Google has done a great job renovating Bolands Mills youtu.be/S66sap1tLfk?si…

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leomac @leogmac

8 months ago

@tbald101 The piece immediately goes on to say that NIMBYs are not the main bottleneck? In any case, that 88.5% is the local authority grant rate and doesn’t account for appeals to ABP or JRs. Glenveagh recently said JRs on their Dundrum project added €30k cost per unit

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leomac @leogmac

10 months ago

@LPerrins

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leomac @leogmac

10 months ago

“That guy?? Didn’t you hear that a small number of investors own the majority of shares in his company?!?”

Irish Times Politics @IrishTimesPol

10 months ago

Very small number of investors own vast bulk of shares in Gareth Sheridan’s US firm irishtimes.com/politics/2025/… via @IrishTimesPol

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leomac @leogmac

11 months ago

why is every AI demo about booking flights. i have never wanted a bot to book my flights

OpenAI @OpenAI

11 months ago

ChatGPT can now do work for you using its own computer. Introducing ChatGPT agent—a unified agentic system combining Operator’s action-taking remote browser, deep research’s web synthesis, and ChatGPT’s conversational strengths.