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Daragh Cassidy

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Dog lover, tennis player, chocolate fiend, theatre fan, wine addict, travelling fanatic, weather enthusiast. YIMBY. Centrist. Views my own.

Dublin, Ireland

Joined November 2010

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@DaraghCassidy

Daragh Cassidy

3 years

A #thread on how utterly useless @DubCityCouncil is at managing our city, in particular the public realm. No other major European city seems to get so much wrong, so often. I'm honestly not sure what Dubliners have done to deserve Councillors & a Council that are so incompetent.

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@DaraghCassidy

Daragh Cassidy

4 years

Scumbags on the Dart throwing bottles at each other. Fair play to the Gardaí 💪🏻💪🏻 As a grown man I’ve felt increasingly uncomfortable on the Dart, even during the day! Judges need to be harsher. And @IrishRail needs more surveillance on trains.

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1 year

I did it guys! I found the one adult in Ireland who’s not on Revolut and managed to bag myself €60! Miracles can happen😆💶

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1 year

In news that may surprise no one, new figures from @eurostat today show Ireland is now the most expensive country in the EU, with prices over 46% above average. 🇮🇪+46% 🇩🇰+45% 🇫🇮+27% 🇸🇪+24% 🇳🇱+17% 🇫🇷+10% 🇩🇪+9% 🇪🇸-3% 🇵🇹-10% 🇲🇹-12% 🇷🇴-42% Here’s an in-depth look at the figures.

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@DaraghCassidy

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5 months

He was also called a c*nt and a f*ggot. So I’m not sure what you want his reaction to be? I thought he handled it remarkably well and with class. Something that’s lacking in the two eejits in the car. I’d have thrown my drink at them.

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Toby

5 months

Leo Varadkar smirks as he is called a traitor. #IrelandBelongsToTheIrish

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6 months

These 3 thugs had committed numerous burglaries & terrorised people over many months. There was actually a reported drop in burglaries in the wider Leinster region after their deaths. They're no loss to society & the Garda should be commended for his bravery. Not sent to prison.

@rtenews

RTÉ News

6 months

A garda accused of endangering life during an incident where three men died in a collision in Dublin must face trial before a Circuit Court judge and jury

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Daragh Cassidy

11 months

My hot take of the day is that if someone who hasn’t worked in a decade savagely murders your girlfriend you get to say mean things about them without being told to shut your hole.

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Daragh Cassidy

1 year

Stumbled across the rarest of finds in Dublin these days. A laneway without a bollard, pole, tarmac blob, or M50 sign in sight. So naturally I took a picture for the archives. This cobbled street must be protected at all costs!

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Daragh Cassidy

3 years

Big misunderstanding around how green energy works so here's a thread as they say. Firstly: there is only ONE electricity grid in Ireland. It's operated by Eirgrid & owned by the Government. No matter who your supplier is, your electricity will come through the exact same wires

@paulmurphy_TD

Paul Murphy 🏳️‍⚧️

3 years

Today SSE Airtricity announced a 24% increase in the price of their '100% green' electricity. The cost of wind has not gone up. On Tuesday SSE announced earnings for the last year will be up to 17% higher than expected. This is pure war profiteering. We need price controls.

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3 years

If it's even possible I think the lighting department at @DubCityCouncil is worse than the paving one. A Thread! Let's start off with the Rosie Hackett Bridge. Half the lights have been broken for around 3 years now. In no other city would this go on in such a prominent location.

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Daragh Cassidy

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Just when you thought Irish councils' 'design' solutions couldn't get any worse... Architectural vandalism at its finest. It's like every Irish council went to the Helen Keller school of art and design.

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Daragh Cassidy

2 years

A few people said I chose an overly “mean” shot of Dublin yesterday when comparing the city to Bordeaux. So here’s how Dublin’s College Green (surely the jewel in the city’s crown?) compares to Bordeaux’s main plaza. Beautiful work on display by @DubCityCouncil once again.

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3 months

Not a fan personally. It just lends another air of unkemptness to the city. Which is the last thing Dublin needs in such a prime location. There are loads of other places in the city that this could have been done instead (all the parks for example).

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Pádraic Fogarty

3 months

I just love the no-mow approach in front of Trinity College in Dublin 😍

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Daragh Cassidy

1 year

All these lads are wearing expensive looking trainers and tracksuits. But of course we’ll be told this behaviour is all down to poverty and that they’ve all been failed by the Government and that it’s all someone else’s fault and not theirs.

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Daragh Cassidy

1 year

Beautiful paving. Lovely lighting. Great mix of shops. No cars. No bollards. No clutter. No organised begging. No feral youths looking to pick a fight. And Malaga isn’t even a “nice” city by Spanish standards. Why can’t Dublin city centre be like this?

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3 months

It really is bizarre that a man with 4 criminal convictions (now 5) is able to claim asylum & then wander freely into the city and go wherever he likes. There should be a holding centre near the airport where people are placed while their identity & criminal record is established

@courtsnewsIRL

Courts News Ireland

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An asylum seeker who days after arriving in Ireland sexually assaulted a young woman in Dublin city centre after following her for up to half an hour as she tried to get away from him has been jailed for two years and three months. Adel Kerai (26) had arrived in Ireland just

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Daragh Cassidy

3 years

The more I watch that video of South William Street the more it pisses me off. Workers trying to do a decent day's work for a decent day's pay and getting attacked and glassed by little scumbags. What riles me up even more is that they're almost 100% likely to get off scot-free.

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Daragh Cassidy

1 year

I wonder did he cry thinking about the man he'd violently assaulted and then robbed? Or are his only tears for himself as he's afraid there might be heavy repercussions for what he did? Either way, I've little sympathy for him.

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Teen cries as he appears in court in connection with ‘extremely violent’ robbery of English tourist...

A 17-year-old boy wept in court today after being charged over an unprovoked “extremely violent” robbery of an English tourist in Dublin's Temple Bar.

www.independent.ie

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1 year

As someone who's gay I can 100% say that my biggest worry when going out is being attacked by a gang of feral youths. It's not whether someone calls me a nasty name. The Government should spend its time making the streets safer as opposed to implementing hate speech legislation.

@IrishTimes

The Irish Times

1 year

Five people, two men and three women, assaulted Oleksandr Hrekov (23) and glassed him with a bottle. Some of the women also bit him.

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Daragh Cassidy

2 years

An example of how Bordeaux does streets with trams versus how Dublin does it. Note the lack of overhead tram lines, poles and clutter. What have we done to deserve a council as awful as @DubCityCouncil ?

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Daragh Cassidy

2 months

BBC commentators on Ireland: “Hello to our great friends across the Irish Sea”. Always nice to hear and the BBC is always very generous in its coverage of Ireland. We’re rarely as complimentary in return… #OlympicGames #OpeningCeremony

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2 months

Let’s just try get the 4km Luas extension to Finglas finished first perhaps.

@rtenews

RTÉ News

2 months

Ireland should start developing a bid to host the 2072 Summer Olympics, according to Fianna Fáil Senator Malcolm Byrne

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3 years

It absolute riles me up that stuff like this doesn’t get more attention on here or in the media. A foreign worker out trying to make a living and some scrote goes off with his bike.

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Daragh Cassidy

2 months

No where is perfect. Including Oz. But it does seem to be able to do more with less. In Oz there is no PRSI, no USC, only 10% VAT on most goods and services and a much higher cut-off point for higher earners. And free GP visits. Where are we spending all our money?

@IrishTimes

The Irish Times

2 months

Young Irish people don’t need a tax break, they need reasons to feel hopeful about Ireland again, writes Brianna Parkins. Read her full piece on the quality of life issues facing Ireland's youth here

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Daragh Cassidy

6 months

I'd argue Ireland needs one more bank holiday to bring us into line with the European average. Making Good Friday an official public holiday would probably be the easiest and least costly way to do that seeing as around half of businesses observe it as a holiday anyway.

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RTÉ Business

6 months

Call for Good Friday to be made a bank holiday

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Daragh Cassidy

2 years

Suffolk Street has been closed to traffic for around 3/4 years now. During that time @DubCityCouncil has: ❌ installed public seating ❌ planted new trees ❌ widened pavements ❌ made any discernible improvement to the public realm ✅ installed a new pointless sign

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Daragh Cassidy

4 years

What a “view” of Trinity, eh? It’s tough to even know where to begin... 🤦🏼‍♂️ I’ll say it again, @DubCityCouncil is a complete DISASTER when it comes to anything to do with the public realm.

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Daragh Cassidy

1 year

I now have ZERO sympathy for this young man. Out on bail after crying in front of the judge after he violently assaulted a tourist in Temple Bar. Then what does he do upon release? Rob two teenagers a few days later. Lock him up. Somewhere. I don’t care.

@SteBreen

Stephen Breen

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BREAKING - A teenager who received bail on Tuesday after he was charged with an “extremely violent” robbery of a UK tourist in Temple Bar is due to appear in court after he was charged in connection with the alleged robbery of two 15-year olds last Thursday, also in Temple Bar.

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Daragh Cassidy

3 years

I really don't get the whole 'Covid passports are a threat to my civil liberties!' argument. You need a passport to travel. A licence to drive. You probably have to show ID to get into work. Not being able to dine indoors is hardly some type of humanitarian breach of your rights.

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Daragh Cassidy

2 months

If this were Switzerland, say, this would be a nice little jetty down which you could grab a boat or dinghy & float calmly down river to your next destination. But it’s Dublin. So it’s a cordoned off, graffiti and litter-strewn mess that leads to a dirty & underused river.

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Daragh Cassidy

1 year

In most European capitals their main “iconic” city centre bridge would be beautifully paved. Instead in #Dublin we get tarmac covered in chewing gum. And this yellow yoke. #uglydublin

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Daragh Cassidy

1 year

Another day. Another tourist attack. Come visit Dublin. To see the bollards and get a beating! 65 years old. Female. Dragged along the ground and into a laneway in daylight almost in a premeditated attack. We're bloody right to get the army in.

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Tourist (65) dragged along ground down Dublin laneway in ‘predatory’ robbery, court hears

A 65-year-old tourist returning to her hotel in Dublin was dragged on the ground into a laneway during a “predatory” robbery, a court heard.

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Daragh Cassidy

1 year

Today’s hot take on Twitter is that you’re a wet wipe if you feel unsafe in parts of Dublin. Because all the muggings, glassings, theft and feral behaviour are in our minds.

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@MarxistSaint

Kevin Creagh ☭🇵🇸

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O'Connell Street is only unsafe for those from the leafy suburbs of South Dublin because it's the only time they encounter actual poor people and it fucking terrifies them. These wet wipes get a nosebleed if they travel too far north over the Liffey.

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Daragh Cassidy

1 year

I love businesses that take pride in their appearance. A diamond in the rough along Pearse Street.

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Daragh Cassidy

9 months

What is the end goal here? For almost every student accommodation, hotel and nursing home in the country to be housed with IPAs from Algeria and Georgia or wherever? What impact is this going to have on students trying to find accommodation? Utter madness.

@irishexaminer

Irish Examiner

9 months

Government eying €57m student complex in Cork to house asylum seekers

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@DaraghCassidy

Daragh Cassidy

4 months

O’Leary being refreshingly honest as usual. Love him or loathe him, he says it how it is. Maybe he could take over from Helen…

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"It's a complete scam, these people are not refugees" says Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary on Newstalk

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Daragh Cassidy

3 years

👏Laois👏County👏Council👏blocked👏Electric👏Picnic👏 Not Leo. Sometimes I wonder do Irish people realise we live in a parliamentary democracy & not some presidential autocracy. Just because you’re X or Y doesn’t mean you can demand anything you’d like get done. Leo pushed for EP

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Daragh Cassidy

11 months

@hazechu That may be very true Hazel. But if it were a man talking to a woman like that you’d be the first to complain. And rightly so. Manners cost nothing. She came across as needlessly rude and aggressive. And I say this as someone who agrees with assisted dying.

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Daragh Cassidy

11 months

Random stabbing at Dublin Airport in September Radom stabbing of an elderly woman last Thursday on Chatham Street Now a random stabbing of young school children on Parnell Square Thankfully no one has been killed. But I really hope this doesn't become the norm in Dublin.

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Daragh Cassidy

6 months

Wearing a jacket worth over €1,000. Off on a two-week holiday in May. Not working. On social welfare. He’s some life this lad.

@rtenews

RTÉ News

6 months

Fresh charges for committing 'riot' have been brought against two men already accused of serious offences during an outbreak of violence, looting and arson in Dublin on 23 November last year

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Daragh Cassidy

5 months

Lisbon paving versus Dublin paving. @DubCityCouncil going all out on the public realm as usual.

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Daragh Cassidy

2 years

In most European capitals it would be pretty tough to find 5 different styles of lamppost within the one city. Let alone the one pic. But this is Dublin!

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Daragh Cassidy

2 years

Hardly a plastic bollard, parking sign, or steel pole in sight 😍 How DO the people of Edinburgh survive!? Amazingly, Scottish drivers don’t need street by street sign directions from the city centre to the M8 either…😏

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1 year

Hi @DubCityCouncil 👋 I know you’re super busy these days erecting M50 signs, installing bollards and keeping the streets safe. But any chance you could get round to fixing these tarmac blobs on the city’s “premier” shopping street? It’s been about 7/8 months now.

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Daragh Cassidy

4 years

Would you see the like of it in any other European city... does @DubCityCouncil just not care or does it actually think this is all acceptable? #clutter #dirtydublin #uglyboxes

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Daragh Cassidy

2 years

Oh my God. WHY did no one tell me about this BEAUTIFUL road traffic installation on Dublin City’s historic Stephen’s Green!? The mix of colours and signs, the layout, the cheap plastic bollards. It all just SCREAMS heritage Dublin. Thanks @DubCityCouncil !

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Daragh Cassidy

3 years

It’s been a tough year on everyone. Especially the young. And I hate to say it. But having seen more and more of the chaos in town the Gardaí 100% have my support.

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Daragh Cassidy

10 months

It’s expensive. But Bewley’s rent is €1.5m a year. Or over €4,100 a day. Around €1 of the price goes to Gov in Vat. So they need to sell around 550 hot chocolates a day to pay it. And that’s before wages, energy costs or rates are factored in. Or the cost of the chocolate!

@NaomiOhReally

Naomi O'Leary

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A receipt causing shock on the family group chat

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Daragh Cassidy

1 year

Grafton St. Dublin’s premier shopping street. At 9am on a sunny summer morning. While it’s good that incidents like this are finally getting media attention & will hopefully force the Gardaí & Gov to act, it’s a shame to see what’s happening to our city.

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Man (30s) stabbed multiple times on Grafton Street in Dublin

A man has been rushed to hospital after being stabbed multiple times in Dublin’s city centre.

www.independent.ie

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Daragh Cassidy

7 months

So 3,400 new asylum seekers have arrived into Ireland in the first 2 months of the year alone. So we’re on course for over 20,000 this year. And another 20,000 next year? It’s ridiculous there’s not at least 1 person on the panel to highlight we can’t cope with this. #TonightVMTV

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3 months

Pretty much every community (urban/rural, rich/poor, young/old, big/small) is now voicing concerns about asylum centres being placed in their areas. This isn't about poverty. It's about people saying we can't keep taking in up to 25,000 or more asylum seekers every year.

@IrishTimes

The Irish Times

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‘At the heart of this is poverty’: Kitty Holland on how Coolock’s pressure-cooker finally exploded

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Daragh Cassidy

11 months

Things are clearly coming to a head. So much of this feels very predictable though. It feels like the Government hasn’t been listening to people for quite some time. Scenes like this are partly the result.

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Daragh Cassidy

2 years

The tarmac. The poles covered in manky stickers. The 3 signs saying pretty much the same thing. The ugly bollards. All outside one of the city’s major tourist spots. Beautiful work by @DubCityCouncil as always. Great bunch of lads.

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Daragh Cassidy

11 months

If you want to commit the perfect murder just get behind the wheel of a car as they say. Just nine months ago Carl mowed down and killed a pedestrian. Suspended sentence. Now he kills a child. 18 months. Out in under a year no doubt. Christ.

@rtenews

RTÉ News

11 months

A 34-year-old man who pleaded guilty to careless driving causing the death of a seven-year-old boy while reversing a road sweeping vehicle has been sentenced to 18 months in jail

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Daragh Cassidy

1 year

Another day. Another attack by feral youths in Dublin. The city centre is becoming more dangerous by the day while the Government is asleep at the wheel. What sets these attacks apart and makes them so worrying is that they’re random and unprovoked.

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US tourist injured after Dublin city centre gang attack

A US tourist is in a serious but stable condition in hospital in Dublin after he was attacked in the city centre last night.

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Daragh Cassidy

1 year

Really sums up the state of Dublin’s public realm. ✔️The ugly plastic bin (which replaced the sleek stainless steel ones for some reason) ✔️The ugly electrical cabinets which should be underground ✔️The ugly overhead tramlines which should be underground ✔️The ugly phonebox

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Daragh Cassidy

3 months

The absolute state of Dublin.

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Daragh Cassidy

1 year

💶€400 compensation for a €200 flight is why I absolutely will not have a bad word said about the EU!🇪🇺🇪🇺 👨‍💻Remember, if your flight is delayed over 3 hours you’re likely entitled to compensation. But you must claim it yourself. The airline isn’t going to remind you to do it.

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Daragh Cassidy

2 months

@AlannahEMurray Would you be happy to go into the ring with a male born boxer? I’d love to see you give it a try. The vast majority of people agree with Kellie’s comments.

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Daragh Cassidy

2 years

It’s so Dublin that 5 months after Burger King on Grafton Street closed down, Abrakebabra seamlessly moved in. Yet 5 years after the tourist office around the corner closed, we’re still waiting for our world-famous international food hall.

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Daragh Cassidy

11 months

I actually agree with assisted dying (in certain circumstances obviously). But this type of rude, aggressive and condescending questioning is uncalled for. Can you imagine the uproar if a male senator spoke to a female committee guest like this? I’m amazed William stayed so calm.

@DavQuinn

David Quinn

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Senator Lynn Ruane rudely harangues Prof William Binchy of the Pro-Life Campaign in this clip. She even accuses him of being a 'white, privileged man' (thereby singling out his race, class and sex).

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Daragh Cassidy

3 years

A “beautiful” new array of bollards down by the harbour. What the hell are these even for? @dlrcc getting as bad as @DubCityCouncil it seems. Once again, it never ceases to amaze me that there’s ENDLESS money for poles and bollards but none for public toilets or fixing pavements.

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2 months

Yet will we have anything major to show for it in 10 years’ time? Any new roads, railways, metros, Luas lines, airports, sporting facilities or hospitals?

@emmetoliver

Emmet Oliver

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The Irish government has a lot of cash coming in- tax receipts up almost 10% to end July. Corp taxes up over 15%! 💶💶

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Daragh Cassidy

3 months

Rejoice! The brand new, giant Carrol’s gift store on College Green has opened 🫠🫠🫠

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3 years

And as for the lovely 'view' of Trinity College...

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Daragh Cassidy

2 years

We all know @DublinAirport seriously needs to improve its security staffing levels. But I didn’t think things were this bad… #gobshites

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Daragh Cassidy

3 years

As this pic shows, there is nowhere DCC is unwilling to install yet more poles & warning signs. Like you actually couldn't have fucked up a view of one of the city's most important buildings more badly if you'd tried...

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Daragh Cassidy

2 months

It’s mad that this lad is allowed to just wander around the streets of Dublin when both CCTV and DNA evidence says he randomly violently assaulted a woman on her way to work. We’ve an abundance of compassion for all sorts in this country that’s for sure.

@rtenews

RTÉ News

2 months

A man has appeared before a sitting of Dublin District Court charged in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a woman in Dublin city centre

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Daragh Cassidy

2 years

Beautiful work on show as per usual by DCC. Ten grand or so really well spent. All that plastic great for the environment too. We just need a few M50 signs.

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Daragh Cassidy

3 years

You go to places like Paris & Prague that have 100s of buildings, bridges & landmarks lit up spectacularly. In Dublin the council can't even replace a few bulbs. The lack of pride it has for its city is infuriating. @RayMcAdam @CByrneGreen @dubcivictrust @DubCham @LeoVaradkar

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Daragh Cassidy

10 months

Dublin isn’t the worst city in the world but its problems can be neatly summed up in two ways in my opinion. Firstly, it’s a 3 star city charging 5 star prices. It’s also a small city with increasingly big city problems: drug addiction, homelessness and awful traffic.

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World of Statistics

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The cities with the slowest traffic: 🇬🇧 London: 36 min 20 s 🇮🇳 Bengaluru: 29 min 10 s 🇮🇪 Dublin: 28 min 30 s 🇯🇵 Sapporo: 27 min 40 s 🇮🇹 Milan: 27 min 30 s 🇮🇳 Pune: 27 min 20 s 🇷🇴 Bucharest: 27 min 20 s 🇵🇪 Lima: 27 min 10 s 🇵🇭 Manila: 27 min 00 s 🇨🇴 Bogota: 26 min 20 s 🇫🇷 Paris:

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Daragh Cassidy

3 years

Let's start with electrical boxes. No one loves them quite like our Council does! They're like mini Daleks that are multiplying like rabbits all over Dublin. In most cities an effort would be made to keep these underground & out of sight. But our council doesn't seem to care...

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Daragh Cassidy

10 months

How in God’s name can a tender to provide a few sandwiches, chocolate and hot tea and coffee take so long? Genuine question. No wonder we haven’t built a single metre of new rail line in decades if this is how quick things move. Can they not just do it themselves?

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Iarnród Éireann

11 months

@claresambo We are working on a full catering tender process for the national network. Unfortunately, no timeframe is currently available. Further details are available on the link below. -AD

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Daragh Cassidy

2 years

Yes DCC! More street clutter! That’s exactly what the city wants and needs! And it goes so well with those eight beautiful electrical boxes. Not to mention the gorgeous paving… Does this new advertising panel mean you’ll have MORE money to erect MORE signage!? Can’t wait!

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Daragh Cassidy

8 months

Like him or loathe him. You can’t not admire at times how direct and to the point Michael 0’Leary is. It’d be great if more politicians were like this.

@RTERadio1

RTÉ Radio 1

8 months

"I would apologise to nobody for it. Our first job here is to look after our passengers, our second job is to look after our staff." Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary joined #TodayCB after the company bought the bulk of a new housing estate near Dublin Airport, to rent to staff.

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Daragh Cassidy

3 months

I guess you can't really blame him for coming to Ireland and passing through several safe countries if he's going to get a free apartment.

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@rtenews

RTÉ News

3 months

Almost 50 tents housing asylum seekers have been pitched near the Grand Canal in Ranelagh, Co Dublin

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@DaraghCassidy

Daragh Cassidy

2 years

A big lump of tar. The granite paving destroyed in the name of yet another fucking useless sign. Rubbish lying out on the street. And yet another Carrolls shop. Dublin city centre summed up perfectly in one pic.

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@DaraghCassidy

Daragh Cassidy

2 years

The country clearly cannot cope with the numbers entering. Now we have the taxpayer-funded Irish Refugee Council helping an asylum seeker sue the State because he wasn’t given immediate accommodation.

Legal challenge against State after accommodation pause

A High Court judge has said it was entirely foreseeable that a legal challenge would be brought against the State after a Government decision last month to pause offers of accommodation to some...

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@DaraghCassidy

Daragh Cassidy

9 months

Huge sympathy to the Centra security workers on Dame Street who are trying to deal with this lad who’s threatening to beat them up after calling them n***er c*nts. The abuse city centre workers have to put up with these days is despicable. There’s no excuse for it.

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Daragh Cassidy

2 years

Although it’s still a bit too car centric, Dalkey is the standard EVERY town & suburb of Dublin should aspire to. Beautiful shopfronts, great mix of retail units, clean streets, heritage lamp posts, almost zero street clutter, and almost zero signage (just how do they manage 🙄)

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Daragh Cassidy

2 months

"The Irish Times reported this week that public consultation on MetroLink was being reopened, almost five months after a hearing held by An Bord Pleanála on the project ended." MORE consultations. We've been consulting for over 20 years. Just build it.

Extension of MetroLink to Donabate may be looked at in future transport review, says NTA

Population growth in the area and recommendations of all-island strategic rail blueprint review to be examined

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Daragh Cassidy

1 year

“Sources said that this group is believed to be the same individuals responsible for other attacks in the area in recent weeks and months. This group of about 20 local youths have been going around assaulting people throughout the summer.” Then why the hell was no action taken!?

@Independent_ie

Irish Independent

@Independent_ie

1 year

Man in serious condition in hospital after savage, unprovoked assault just metres from garda station

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Daragh Cassidy

3 years

Paul on the other hand has never been a minister, never been in government, and never had to make an important or difficult decision in his entire political career.

@paulmurphy_TD

Paul Murphy 🏳️‍⚧️

3 years

Alan Kelly was one of the architects of austerity and enforcer of water charges. He was Minister responsible for housing in the government that built the least public housing in decades and invited in the vultures, sowing the seeds of today's housing crisis. Good riddance.

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Daragh Cassidy

4 months

Another disgusting tourist attack. “It is no exaggeration to say that the victim was slashed from his mouth to his ear,” said a source. Dublin is being ruined by a small minority of feral youths who have no fear and who think they own the city and can do whatever they like.

@Independent_ie

Irish Independent

@Independent_ie

4 months

Fears tourist (19) scarred for life after face slashed in Smithfield area of Dublin city centre

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@DaraghCassidy

Daragh Cassidy

2 years

The average age here is at least 60 I’d say. Guarantee most are also mortgage free.

@Ripe_ie

Warren Logan

2 years

Imagine Dundrum Public Meeting last night in Taney Parish Hall about the proposed Fast Track Dundrum Village SHD for 881 Apartments. Full house 🏆 @donalodonovan @PatKennyNT @rteliveline @gordondeeg @thejournal_ie @breakingnewsie

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@DaraghCassidy

Daragh Cassidy

2 years

That’s some “achievement”. Richard is also objecting to the building of a wind farm. In the Irish Sea. In the midst of a climate & energy crisis. With energy prices at record highs. Maybe I can get Richard to help me with objecting to some bollards 🤔😆

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Boyd Barrett defends objecting to 1,300 homes in constituency in last 2 years

It comes just days after People Before Profit tabled a motion of no confidence in Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien

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Daragh Cassidy

3 months

Garda Sergeant McCarthy told the court “that Mr Ghiuzan did not pay rent or a mortgage and did not have real ties to the State.” Hopefully he’ll have real ties to Mountjoy prison over the next 10 years.

@rtenews

RTÉ News

3 months

A 23-year-old man charged with attacking a Canadian tourist in central Dublin yesterday has been refused bail

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Daragh Cassidy

4 years

@justinhendrix In Ireland it’s never taken me more than 5 minutes to vote. This is insane. So many things in America simply do not work. And yet you’re convinced you’re the greatest country on earth. It’s bizarre.

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@DaraghCassidy

Daragh Cassidy

2 years

People in East Wall have concerns about asylum seekers living next to them (and are branded racists and far right). People in Blackrock are concerned about anyone living next to them (and are branded heroes of the planning system). Funny old world..

@Independent_ie

Irish Independent

@Independent_ie

2 years

Residents of Blackrock in south Dublin have initiated their second High Court challenge to planning permission for hundreds of apartments in Temple Hill granted to the co-owners of the Press Up Hospitality Group

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@DaraghCassidy

Daragh Cassidy

8 months

And yet if we wanted just a few hundred million for some new Luas lines or the Navan railway we’d be told there’s absolutely no money available.

@businessposthq

Business Post

@businessposthq

8 months

The state has spent almost €2 billion on housing asylum seekers and Ukrainians in just two-and-a-half years, eclipsing its equivalent spend in the previous two decades combined

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Daragh Cassidy

19 days

“I have a sea view – I love it...however, the skyline will be filled by large turbines." Christ. Nobody has the right to a bloody sea view...

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Residents raise concern as Ireland’s six new offshore wind farms move closer to reality

Developers are seeking planning permission for large-turbine wind farms as people from Louth to Wexford say they are worried about more than visual intrusion

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Daragh Cassidy

3 years

A a special shoutout to this display down by the Docklands where DCC seemed to be going for some type of record...

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Daragh Cassidy

10 months

The man knocked almost unconscious. The fighting. The racist, aggressive homeless man. The drug addict roaring her head off. The tarmac blob. The crappy shopfronts. The clip epitomises Dublin city centre quite well I’d say.

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Dubs life

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@DaraghCassidy

Daragh Cassidy

2 years

@MYUwrites @_figensezgin This is a dog though. Humans have a way deeper connection and bond with dogs than any other animal. As they do with us. To imply a dog is simply “food”almost verges on psychotic. Also, how do we know this wasn’t these kids’ family pet?

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Daragh Cassidy

4 years

All the Shinners shouting about how Mary Lou wouldnt have got away with 'sleeping on the job' & how Eamon Ryan has got off lightly😄The women is literally leader of a party thats got away with murder, has covered up child sex abuse,& has no time for social distancing at funerals!

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Daragh Cassidy

2 years

❗️32% of all tenants in rent arrears ❗️51 tenants owe more than €27k ❗️A further 136 owe between €19K & €27K ❗️Another 589 households have rent arrears of between €11k & €19k Imagine getting a house in the heart of the city centre for next to nothing and then paying nothing

@Independent_ie

Irish Independent

@Independent_ie

2 years

51 social housing tenants in Dublin owe more than €27,000 each in unpaid rent

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@DaraghCassidy

Daragh Cassidy

1 year

It’s not just tourists. This is the type of crap shop workers and security guards in the city centre have to put up with on a daily basis. God only knows who else fell victim to this guy yesterday. I wouldn’t be surprised if he punched some random individual on his way home…

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@SeamusjKearney

1 year

Spar on Millennium Walkway, by Jervis. Source:

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@DaraghCassidy

Daragh Cassidy

12 days

It's just a pity we completely stopped the expansion ten years ago.

@Luas

Luas

12 days

The Luas network has expanded significantly since the maiden journey on the Green Line from Sandyford to St Stephen's Green. Today the network has: 🚃 81 Trams 🛑 69 Stops 🔀 The lines stretch over 43km's in distance ㏎ Trams travel 4 million kilometres annually

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@DaraghCassidy

Daragh Cassidy

5 months

“I am more confident about my position here than I am in the UK,” Mr Mhammed told The Telegraph. “Here, they don’t say anything." Sri Lankan Adhi A, who arrived from the UK said: “Everyone is coming here now..." We're in for a very difficult few years.

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‘I fled to Ireland from UK to avoid being deported to Rwanda’ – migrant living in Dublin’s tent city

Home for Abdul Mhammed, a 20-year-old Channel migrant from Sudan, is a blue tent with frayed edges in an encampment that has sprouted up around the main as...

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Daragh Cassidy

3 years

Given the above, should suppliers be able to say they offer only 'green energy'? I don't think so. There are huge questions around how it's marketed.

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