A 1% annual tax on holdings produces a similar end result to a one-off 33% CGT on profits. The new scheme isn't a tax cut — it's a simplification. Revenue will likely collect more, not less.

75 hours of daylight is wasted on sleep during Irish Winter. It doesn't have to be that way.

Staying on Summer time, would save 55 hours of daylight by shifting it out of our sleep hours, 23:30-07:30, and into our waking hours.

Time to end the silly annual clock changes.

Permanent Summer would save us ~60 hours of light pa. In Mar & Nov, it's bright 06:00-19:00.

Average waking hours: 07:30-23:30. So in Winter, scarce daylight hours are wasted by shifting it outside waking hours.

IMHO, in Winter, 100% of daylight should in waking hours.

We waste daylight in Winter by choosing these daylight hours:
06:10 - 18:50 in Mar (huge waste of daylight)
08:40 - 16:15 in Dec

Staying on Summer time year round would bring sunlit hours back into waking life:
07:10 - 19:50 in Mar
09:40 - 17:15 in Dec

Gas prices up by around 50% today.

A painful reminder that relying on imported fossil fuels is a risky strategy.

Time for Ireland to end clock changes and stay on Summer Time year round. Mid-March daylight hours are 06:30 – 18:30, which wastes daylight during sleep hours. Staying on Summer Time year round would bring those sunlit hours back into waking life.

They can fuck off

What a wildly stupid idea.

Mandatory helmets and high viz is a proven remedy to reduce the number of people cycling. It effectively kills off things like Dublin Bikes.

That's why no other EU country does anything like this. Pure madness.

I’ve just seen Hamnet. Why did nobody tell me it would be coma-inducingly boring? I expected Chloé Zhao’s film to be daring and brilliant and moving. I think I fell prey to the hype around it

This was my exact experience. It was "walk out of the cinema" boring.

www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...

Where is this?

Issues:
- too narrow to overtake
- too many twists and turns
- bus illegally dropping passengers into the cycle lane at Connolly Hotel
- pedestrians walking in the cycle lane

It's far easier to maintain speed/momentum on the road, as there are no twists/turns and generally has priority.

Unfortunately, I've reverted to cycling on the road from Connolly to Clontarf as there are too many impediments in the cycle lane. I then join the cycle lane from Clontarf to Sutton, where it's much better.

- Generally too narrow to overtake safely
- Zigzagging around parking spaces is poor

If College Green is pedestrianised, how will BusConnects work to get from Rathmines to:
1) The Dart
2) Drumcondra
3) Glasnevin
Will the A-spine bus stop at the bottom of George's Street? And then walk across town?
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