Ireland is addicted to contracting away all kinds of State capacity By treating governance as contract administration, we are letting our sovereignty erode gradually through every decision we outsource, writes Paul Davis

Ireland is addicted to contracting away all kinds of State capacity

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We will continue to make two-dimensional maps. Because your mind can't handle the truth.

Thanks!! I’ve been doing a deep dive on historical datasets for north Frederick street & Hardwicke st. Starting to get obsessed!

Finding Claude really helpful for building quick visualisations but still a bunch of manual work to get data into shape (which I love doing).

This is Harry Clarke’s (stained glass artist) family. 33 N Frederick St was the family home & also studio. Dad Joshua moved over from uk to start the business. Walter & Harry took over in the 20s and moved studio over to 6-7 N Fred St. I think Harry moved out to Cabra & Walter stayed in 33.

A quick look over shows a few families were on North Frederick Street over the 2 decades including the Clarkes in 33 & Uí Toghdha in 16.

Anyways… off for a big family birthday so census will have to wait to next week.

I had hoped to quickly add in the 1926 census data this morning but the data structure is different and doesn't include the house number.

House numbers are on the form so a bit of manual work to piece it together over the coming days.

Screenshot of map showing a pop-up of the percentage change in residents of number 22 north Frederick street Dublin between 1901 and 1911 census (50% - 4 of 8 residents). Also shows name of residents present in both years.

With all the census 1926 hype I made a small interactive map for North Frederick Street & Hardwicke Street, emphasising changes in residents between 1901 & 1911.

Finding claude fantastic for bringing Dublin’s historic data to life. (Although basemap not rendering)

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We all have days like this

This will devastate Ireland FYI and you never hear anyone in the Irish government talking about it #Spéirgorm

Mind the Gap Ireland is the second richest country in Europe, and this week a single protest shut it down. Here's why.

This piece by economist Sinead O’Sullivan really dives into the wealth disparity, decades of under funding of public service, leading to the ground swell of public anger driving much of the support for the fuel protests in Ireland

Most of this money is going to private operators.

American Gentry The jet-setting cosmopolitans of popular imagination exist, but they are far outnumbered by a less exalted and less discussed elite group, one that sits at the pinnacle of America’s local hierarchies.

Thinking about this today for no (agri-contractor / haulier) reason…

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I'm sure the Gardaí are going to stand back for 5 days to allow this individual make their point and then have the Gov arrange meetings to better understand their demands.

This James Geoghegan lad and his €600k in unpaid taxes are an extreme example of it, but I don’t think it’s an unusual position in Ireland to believe the state should pay for everything that goes wrong in your life, but you shouldn’t have to contribute when things are going well

Can someone please ask Gov if a tax clearance cert will be needed to collect on these?

Not dissimilar to Ireland where government policy for data is mandating use of eircodes, provided at cost by a commercial entity.

Screenshot with text: Addresses Get access to a complete and authoritative dataset of addresses in England, Scotland and Wales. Made available by Ordnance Survey and updated daily, this dataset provides a detailed view of an address and its life cycle, based on pre-build, built and historical property life cycle phases. The data is generated by the National Geographic Database. You can download a free sample as a CSV or GeoPackage file, or pay for a licence to access the full version of the data. There is also a free licence for use in the public sector. The dataset combines local authority address data and links data to an address using the Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN). This makes it ideal for property planning, development and management, and to inform decision making such as analysing a property's access to critical services. Get the data Ordnance Survey address database →

The only source of address data highlighted on this DataGovUK "collection" page is a link to an Ordnance Survey product that is only available to the general public on commercial terms:

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Isn't that (a) advertising, and (b) anti-competitive?

On the up side the farming contractors and associates have shown that Dublin's O'Connell Street is a safe place day and night. No reports that their vehicles have suffered damage. No reports that they've suffered even mild upset. That should shut up all the "it's a war zone" people.

#Speirgorm

If you’ve witnessed the growth of online extremism in Ireland over the past few years, then the constant minimisation of the threat of the far-right (by the authorities and some of the commentariat) has been akin to watching a disaster happen in slow motion.

You know this is Yank fascist bullshit infiltrating Ireland and pretending to be Irish nationalism when they talk about the military securing the border.

Lads, any actual Irish nationalist wants the border gone, not "secured". #Spéirghorm #Spéirgorm

Never seen an antiiwar, water or anti-austerity protest be left to do this sort of thing and cause this much disruption before.

responding to the looming risk of a catastrophic disruption to global supply chains that could last for months if not years by shutting down the national road network to demand tax cuts is a more cutting indictment of the pettiness of Irish politics than I could ever write

Good one!

Not many events on in Dublin today - any suggestions for a dad, 11 & 14 year old? #speirgorm

This is so, so well-articulated.

Reality drift AI-generated reports can look credible, structured…and be completely wrong. When the outputs feeding your strategy are subtly off, your decisions will be too. This is reality drift – and it’s quieter ...

Some notes on blindly trusting what the adverts tell you about AI’s capabilities.

She Spoke Out About Gaza. Now She Can’t Use a Credit Card. After accusing governments and corporations of complicity in Gaza, the U.N. investigator for Palestinian territories now finds herself in Washington’s crosshairs.

Impacts

Your 40s are when you have to confront the gap between the person you hoped to be and the person you are.

I’ve nothing but contempt for mcdowell but maybe we don’t need to keep adding TDs and could look at beefing up the powers of councillors. We have the 3rd weakest local government in OECD (after Russia & Moldova). Answer to pop increase isn’t more centralisation it’s subsidiarity.

For the avoidance of doubt: these measures are (new and additional) *fossil fuel subsidies*. Just let that settle in. Perhaps some of this is defensible: but surely only AFTER we do *everything we can to reduce FF consumption*?