Why is this man on the Irish Government Radiation Protection Committee? He clearly does not understand nuclear waste. Here’s what nuclear waste actually looks like.
Another step on the
@Genesys
journey here in
#Galway
and Ireland. Today we announce the creation of 100 additional roles to bring us to over 300 software engineering staff in Ireland by the end of 2022 and our move to new offices in Bonham Quay.
A very large airline once had a SQL database with the table for “passengers” labelled SLC. When asked what this was the answer was “Self-Loading Cargo”.
“How could we build houses then and can’t build them now?... It’s f**king Thatcherism, Reaganism, the neoliberals and the trickle-down economy that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael both bought into, [the idea] that the market will sort everything out. B***ocks.”
I’m increasingly of the opinion that the problem in Ireland is not the politicians but the complete lack of ability by the permanent civil service to get anything done. From local government to the NTA, ABP, to the HSE it’s just a morass of inaction.
This decision is completely down to the
@greenparty_ie
‘s energy policy based entirely on degrowth. It is leading directly to energy poverty & a complete lack of energy security for Ireland. Build LNG now, gas exploration for medium term and nuclear longterm. Solved in 20yrs.
Multi-national employees make up 12.5% of the workforce but pay 37.5% of income tax per
@CormacLucey
and MNCs pay 80% of €13bn Corp Tax. That’s why it’s important. It’s paying for the pandemic and the last bust as well.
In today’s Galway Advertiser (Pg 40) I talk about why every leaving cert, male and female, should consider a Computer Science degree. The stereotype is false, if you enjoy any science subject you can do Comp Science, even if you are a beginner as courses start at the basics.
If you earn more than €50k in Ireland you are contributing 84% of total income tax.
@FineGael
@fiannafailparty
this has to be addressed in the next government. If the gov is taking more than half of your marginal income something is broken.
Catherine Connolly is a terrible person. She thinks the West is always wrong and Iran, Syria, Russia and Hamas have merit. The West is not perfect but it has done more for its peoples than any other system of governance has done for anyone in the history of humanity.
Incredible vision for Galway on display at the
@ProjectCeannt
launch today. Please
@GalwayCityCo
get this approved. The city needs to grow up. Nearly 400 apartments on a brownfield city centre site. Let’s do it!
So proud to receive this award from the IT Association of Galway. Delighted to work with so many wonderful people throughout my career but especially at
#Altocloud
and now
@Genesys
- a truly great place to work!
@boucherhayes
On the same space you could have built a 1.5GW Nuclear reactor generating constant power for 80 years. Instead this solar farm will be backed up by fossil fuels for more than 50% of the time.
@damien_mccoy
Hope you are well Damien, but wow - that’s insane. Why were they not charged with leaving the scene of an accident and/or assault with a lethal weapon???
Here is Clare Daly, Mick Wallace and Catherine Connolly endorsing the Assad Regime in Syria, a regime which has killed thousands of its own citizens along with many Palestinians. The hypocrisy is incredible.
The narrative that FDI is bad for Ireland is destroyed in this one graphic. MNCs have grown here year on year for the last 50 years. They have upskilled our workforce such that we now have a flourishing indigenous startup scene. And don’t forget the €10bn corp tax paid in 2019.
Ivan Yates is spot on here.
And recognising Palestine now is a mistake. Hamas took over Gaza in 2007 and have not had a legitimate election since. The Palestinian Authority is based in the West Bank. So who are we recognising??
Strong words from Ivan Yates on the Irish government's position on Palestine. 🇮🇪🇵🇸
But his story about the trip to Washington... 🇺🇲 Did that actually happen?
(Path to Power podcast with
@cooper_m
by
@nkmanagement
)
Galway needs to grow, but degrowthers just want to see it dwindle away. I’d like my kids to be able to live in the city, not have to emigrate. To that end we need the ring road, bus connects, park & ride, improved rail. Not just ideology.
Hearing rumours that CAO points are down for Electronic & Computing/Computer Science. The parents of Ireland should know that if they want to their kids (girls & boys) to have well paid jobs (grads avg €38k start) and really interesting work and career prospects look to EE/CS
The report by Dept of Public Expenditure on Wind buildout: €131bn for 37GW installed (with a 35% capacity factor). This does not include backup via gas or interconnectors. Just build nuclear and be done with it for half the cost and cheap electricity for 80 years.
Build nuclear and be done with it. It might be €30bn up front but will provide cheap electricity for 80+ years. Replace with fusion in 2100.
Our current electricity is most expensive in EU and about to get even more expensive and unreliable.
Garrett Fitzgerald didn’t loathe the nationalists in the 6 counties. He just loathed the IRA - the biggest killers of nationalists during the Troubles. He had an excellent relationship with the SDLP, who were the biggest nationalist political party at the time.
The “top economist” who spearheaded the ‘research’ on a United Ireland is John Fitzgerald. He is Fine Gael royalty. His grandfather a founding member of FG. As Taoiseach, his father Garret supported Margaret Thatcher’s position on the hunger strikes. He loathed our community.
"They have been like another set of parents to me since moving away, I owe a lot to them. "
Ireland's man of the match on Saturday Mack Hansen on how good Andy Friend and his wife have been to him since he arrived in Ireland.
#GuinnessSixNations
#FRAvIRE
Every year Oxfam publish these fantasy updates. The top two wealthiest Irish people are Shapoor Mistry and John Grayken, neither of whom have any sizeable economic activity in Ireland. We couldn’t tax it if we tried. And it’s unrealised gains, which you can’t tax.
The Pogues played in the Beaten Path, Mayo in 1984. Afterwards they went drinking with myself and my brothers in the Imperial Hotel,Claremorris. It was some session. In the morning Shane MacGowan wrote “Death to the Smyths” in the visitor book.
The fantastic Mary Rogers presiding over the official opening of the new Portershed on Bowling Green. There are going to be a lot of great tech adventures starting from here.
@portershed
@StatesidePortal
Olkiluoto-3
Started operation in April 2023.
In less than 9 months,
It reduced Finland production intensity from 147g to 89g CO2e/kWh
It reduced Estonia consumption intensity from 429 to 280g CO2e/kWh.
#nuclear
#energy
🇫🇮 🇪🇪
We’ve moved into our new
@Genesys
home in Woodquay, Galway city centre. Thanks to
@kelvingillmor
for his amazing photography that we turned into wall art to make our work space awesome but better still, inspired by our local landscape.
So
@GalwayCityCo
have just put bolted down railings blocking the middle tier of the Blackrock Diving Tower in Salthill, Galway. This has been operational for almost 70 years yet suddenly closed off. What is going on?
As of this week all of Genesys Galway office employees are working from home. We know we are lucky to work in a cloud based company that enables this mode of work and we are doing what we can to help stop this terrible disease from spreading.
You can have a great career outside Dublin and
#Galway
is a great place to do it. Read my story in this piece on
@siliconrepublic
and have a look at if you want to supercharge you career with
@Genesys
@sendboyle
Dan, the government (and in this instance Eamon Ryan) need to provide a credible national energy security plan. In recent weeks we’ve seen wind at 2% capacity for days on end. What’s our backup plan? It’s gas imported from UK. Do you not think we need a better plan?
The brilliant
@johnbreslin
on The Late Late Show explaining Ireland in Colour on the
@RTELateLateShow
. Amazing insight to our history. Buy this book!!!
Giving back and being part of our community is very important
@Genesys
and we are especially proud to support the critical work that
@COPEGalway
do to support people in their time of need.
As long as we are dependent on Wind we are going to need fossil gas backup, unless we want to shut down our hospitals, schools and industries when the wind doesn’t blow. This LNG terminal would give us improved pricing on that gas. But the Greens can’t think that far.
It's the correct decision. We can no longer afford new fossil fuel infrastructure, to do so would be bad climate and energy policy.
Seeing as how this decision was made based on government policy, I think the Green Party have made a contribution.
Speaking to an audience in the south of Ireland, Bernadette Devlin says, ‘We don’t intend on joining you’.
‘If you think we spent two generations, and traumatised two more yet to come, by what we’ve been through to live in this godforsaken state, you have another thing coming.
What a win for
@connachtrugby
over
@leinsterrugby
- The physicality at the breakdown was amazing. The work rate of the pack! Jack Carty, Ciaran Oliver, Tom Daly, right across the team!!! All of us
@Genesys
are proud to stand with Connacht!
Augustine Hill is a critical development for Galway City.
@GalwayCityCo
please support this development and enable it to happen soon. Over 400 new housing units for the city and a brand new sustainable quarter:
@JoeSmyth10
Haha you mean like the existing road that goes around Galway? Will we call it a ring road perhaps? Unless you're planning on building a motorway through Connemara, there's no point having yet another massive road bypassing Galway.
Can
@rtenews
not have Clare Daly MEP on their program spouting her vile rhetoric justifying the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Her worldview is so broken.
Great piece in the
@sundaybusiness
post on the growth of
#Galway
.
@Genesys
are proud to be part of that success, with 100 software engineering staff now and on the way to 220 over the next two years. If you interested see with more to come.
@elisaodonovan
What’s your point Elisa? You are demonising landlords who provide homes to people. They are an important part of the housing market. You just want to score crude (and dumb) points against your political opponent through failed ideological thinking.
The SDLP were the biggest nationalist party in NÍ until well after the GFA. The nationalist voters of NI rejected the Zombies during the violence and voted for a party aimed at a peaceful resolution to the conflict, until the revisionists got hold of the narrative.
Zombie is the perfect partitionist anthem. It encapsulates the complete lack of understanding or even basic compassion in the south for the lived experience of Northern nationalists.
"But you see, it's not me
It's not my family"
The only countries in green (<100gCO2/KWh) are those with massive hydro (Iceland & Norway) and nuclear (France, Sweden). Support
@18for0
now and make Ireland truly green.
Perhaps the most important would be the removal of sheep from all our national parks. Starting with Connemara. Sheep were only introduced after the famine so don’t @ me about “traditional agriculture”.
A small prediction - native woodlands in Ireland will expand significantly in the years to come.
(with species rich grassland going the opposite direction)
Two caveats- it won't happen in areas dominated by extensive sheep grazing & climate change may have unforeseen impact
🧵
We
@Genesys
are delighted to be working with the Insight Centre at
@uniofgalway
on the critical space of AI Explainability. Thanks to
@EdwardACurry
and our own
@emir_munoz
for bringing the team together to produce this important paper.
A new paper published with our industry partners
@Genesys
, explores ways of supporting explainability in AI models, for more trustworthy AI. The project is part of the EMPOWER Data Governance programme
@scienceirel
@uniofgalway
@DCU
@UCC
@UCDDublin
The people who have gained least from recent growth in tax revenues have been middle income earners who pay high taxes and get few public services. They should be given a break. Also anything over a 50% tax rate is just kleptocracy.
Cutting taxes is absolutely the wrong thing for Ireland.
We have massive deficits in housing, childcare, education and health. And the electorate seem to understand this better than many politicians.
It’s so important for the future of Galway that Bonham Quay is successful AND that we maximise the housing density adjacent to it.
@GalwayCityCo
needs to approve as many housing units as possible in Augustine Hill/Railway station redevelopment. Make Galway City Centre come alive!
Shame
@Independent_ie
on this headline. The second paragraph states “most with underlying health conditions”. Please stop feeding anti-vaxxers headlines to retweet.
Transport Infrastructure Ireland says the now-completed 22 kilometre Macroom bypass - built at a cost of €280 million - will cut travel time between Cork and Killarney by up to 17 minutes
The reality of our abysmal ability to add electricity production to our grid is being laid bare. It’s not data centres that are the problem, it’s that we don’t produce enough electricity and what we do produce is ridiculously expensive. We need to follow Finland to nuclear.
Well I made it. 39km in August - 3 x Galway Bay Swims. A rough 2.6km this evening to close it out. A great way to spend a month in the time of Covid. Thanks to all who donated - open for another few days:
17 lanes for swimming & waterpolo to be added to Galway! Great to see all the support from Galway City Councillors for the proposed state of the art waterpolo and swimming facility for Galway and the region.
@GalwayCityCo
@swimireland
Every single one of these would actually decrease tax take, as companies and people would leave the country. PBP would turn us into the European Venezuela. And all derived from a zero-sum beggar-thy-neighbour worldview.
@rtenews
Just four PBP measures get over €30bn extra tax
👉 Increase corporation tax rate to 20% = €20bn
👉 2% wealth tax on wealthiest 5% = €5.9bn
👉 Higher income tax rates over €100k = €3bn
👉 Increase employers PRSI to EU norm = €2.6bn
Galway needs the Ring Road as well as BusConnects and cycle lanes. The GCRR would enable the breathing space for the inner city. We need a city of 200,000, not capped at 100,000! Where is the political will
@fiannafailparty
@FineGael
??
“This project is critical for the West. The passage of time on decisioning is just unacceptable to the business community. Business, Politics and Community needs to uprise in support of this project.” -
@KennethDeery
, CEO, Galway Chamber.
#proud
#mum
alert 🚨
Today my daughter achieved her dream of pulling in a green jersey and playing U18’s for Connacht rugby v Munster rugby. Well done Caitlin 💚 She even managed to score a try. Great to see both sides playing well. Well done Munster no on the win 💚🏉
Want to join a great team? We at
@Genesys
are hiring in Ireland. Are you a Front-End Engineer? A Site Reliability Engineer? Do you love
#DevOps
. Have you a flair for automating Cloud Security? And of course
#javadevelopers
Have a look at our roles at
California and Germany proving that wind/solar alone cannot provide affordable low-carbon grids. You need to look to France, Ontario, Sweden, Finland for how to do it.
The Greens will try and kill this. If they do they will deny Galway the ability to grow to 200,000 people and beyond. The West of the city will be locked away. We need ALL of GCRR, BusConnects and cycle ways to achieve our potential. And EVs can take care of the climate aspects.
ABP have approved the Galway City Ring Road. Ruining the view of Menlo Castle is the start of the damage this would do. Urban sprawl and a car dependent city. There may be a judicial review and they have to find the money, so this story will run for another while
#GCRR
Genesys are hiring. All 17 roles, across Software Engineering, Product Management, Cloud Security and Customer Success are hybrid with our state of the art office in Galway or remote across Ireland.
One thing the COVID-19 pandemic has shown us is that technology & computing is going to continue to accelerate. Today the
#CAO
change of mind window opens. Please ensure the leaving certs you know are considering Computer Science and related courses & the pay is pretty good!
Come join our growing Software Development team
@Genesys
Ireland and celebrate our partnership with
@connachtrugby
- remote working is an option. See the full video at .
Check out our open roles in cloud development at:
An Taisce want us all to live in Hobbiton. Here they are objecting to 230 apartments on a brown field site in Galway city centre. If they are successful our children will never own their own homes. Stop NIMBYism.