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Kevin Byrne

3 months

As I finish up my 3 year term as an outside member on Dublin City Council's Housing Committee I'm reflecting on where we are 10 years into our housing crisis /1 (you can read me in back in 2014 predicting much of what's happened over the last decade)

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3 years

The Royal City of Dublin Hospital - one of the grandest buildings on Baggot St that the State has let decay for decades & left closed for years. Could be great museum or other public resource, or a hotel or housing - but no, instead it's part of #DerelictDublin & #DerelictIreland

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Kevin Byrne

4 months

Week 60: situation with the #ShantyTown is now genuinely insane. Massively expanded over weekend. Other side of Mount Street now occupied too, including by @eurireland . Footpaths fully blocked. Largest & most intimidating camp has been yet. Whole city will be lost at this rate.

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Kevin Byrne

9 months

This is the type of visible no nonsense policing we need all year round. Petty thugs & petty thieves have been ruining the city for everyone since the end of the pandemic and it's long past time they were tackled. This is more like the policing level you see in other EU capitals.

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9 months

Heated atmosphere on O'Connell Street again tonight. Gardaí having absolutely none of it.

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Kevin Byrne

4 months

Massive new tent encampment this evening the full length of the canal bank *right beside* Lower Mount Street. Numerous reports to Gardai but no response as yet. Residents expect the government's commitment that no new shanty towns will be allowed to be established to be honoured.

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Kevin Byrne

1 year

I don't get why Justice Minister & Garda management find it so hard to understand that you need a round-the-clock visible police presence on the streets in your capital's city centre - as in every other EU country. Dublin city centre is comparatively small - please just police it

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TheJournal.ie

1 year

Three British tourists were hospitalised after they were attacked and allegedly robbed in the Templebar area of Dublin last night.

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Kevin Byrne

4 months

Week 59: Despite the objection of residents Government has now installed portaloos for the #ShantyTown risking making it a permanent blight on our city. Madness. And while Mount Street is ground zero asylum seeker tents are now popping up across the city centre. No one in charge.

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1 year

So the number of gardai that are right now out on the streets across the country guarding ATMs due to a bank's screw up, that's how many gardai should be on the streets at night deterring anti-social behaviour and thuggery and keeping citizens and tourists safe.

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TheJournal.ie

1 year

Gardaí across the country have been directed to clear queues at Bank of Ireland ATMs after rumours spread online that people were able to withdraw more money than they had available in their account.

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Kevin Byrne

4 months

Week 59: the #ShantyTown has arrived at FF HQ. Next week it'll be at the Maternity Hospital. Local shops and restaurants being put out of business. Local residents surrounded in their homes. 150 tents, hundreds of asylum seekers on the streets. Still no response from Government.

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Kevin Byrne

1 year

Nice attractive, hard wearing and easy to maintain surface materials out by the Point. I fail to understand why we can't have similar in the city centre instead of the horrible yellow tarmac that blights College Green, the top of Grafton St, pedestrianised Suffolk St etc etc

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Kevin Byrne

1 year

Another horrific example of why those that live in, work, visit & socialise in Dublin city centre keep insisting on visible on-the-street policing at the level of other EU capitals. We need round the clock Garda presence at key locations. Thugs can't be allowed act with impunity.

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RTÉ News

1 year

An American tourist is in a critical condition in hospital in Dublin after he was attacked in the city centre last night

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Kevin Byrne

1 year

Does any political party or any political leader have any interest in making Dublin city centre safe? Policed at levels seen in other EU capitals. Why is the decline of our historic capital that generates so much of our financial & cultural wealth not a huge political issue?

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The Irish Times

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Abbey Theatre condemns ‘random act of mindless violence’ against actor who was bitten and glassed

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Kevin Byrne

2 months

I think the vast majority of LPT payers in Dublin will be happy to pay a bit more in exchange for key services getting ringfenced increases in funding. The capital's public realm in general, and street cleaning and waste management in particular, badly need to see improvement.

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RTÉ News

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Householders in the Dublin City Council area are likely to see their local property tax increase in 2026 as part of an agreement between a number of political parties on the incoming council

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Kevin Byrne

4 years

I congratulate the new Irish Government for today establishing a dedicated cabinet-level Department of Higher Education, Innovation & Science. I am delighted that the 1,700 signatories of our Open Letter last month were listened to.

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Kevin Byrne

4 years

Very disappointed to not see @lawlessj get a post in the new @DeptofFHed , the creation of which he has been a huge advocate for. The new Department would've benefited greatly from his knowledge and respect across the higher education and research sectors.

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Kevin Byrne

4 years

It's overdue but welcome that the UCD School of Medicine has explicitly disassociated itself from the misinformation being spread by Dolores Cahill. Her conduct is an insult to all our @UCDMedicine colleagues helping fight #COVID19

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UCD school of medicine disassociates itself from professor’s views

Prof Dolores Cahill claims she wants to ‘debunk the narrative’ surrounding Covid-19

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Kevin Byrne

1 year

Shocking video of Friday's assault in Temple Bar. I know Garda management don't like 'old-fashioned' beat policing but this article reports "one particular gang of youths appear to be asserting dominance in the area" - so how about some 'intelligence-led' policing targeting them!

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Paul Healy

1 year

NEW: We’ve obtained exclusive CCTV footage of the recent attack on innocent tourists in the heart of Dublin’s Temple Bar. Also spoke to a few business owners who say the situation has gotten “out of control.”

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Kevin Byrne

4 years

Please note we won't see the impact of #SocialDistancing for ~2wks as #COVID19 has an incubation period. So expect spike in 'new' cases over next fortnight. Those are people infected now coming to attention. The plan is #LockdownIreland will reduce actual new cases going forward.

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Kevin Byrne

4 years

The story of the recent team effort in @UCD_Conway to assist @nvrlucdireland obtain genome sequences of the #SARSCoV2 virus from the first #COVID19 patient samples in Ireland. Happy to have played a small part in getting this done. #COVID19ireland

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Kevin Byrne

5 years

The Public Services Card sought to solve a problem that didn't exist, was Orwellian in tone (mandatory but not compulsory) with a Kafkaesque circular application process. Shut it down. In a free society we don't need obligatory State ID cards for citizens.

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Kevin Byrne

4 years

Delighted to have been able to help @nvrlucdireland with genome sequencing the first Irish #SARSCoV2 samples. Will help trace Irish cases and contribute to filling in the global picture on the evolution and spread of #COVID19 . Thanks due to @EoinCinneide too. #COVID19ireland

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4 years

First sequence of #SARSCoV2 from #Ireland with thanks to @Scalene @KenWolfeLab @drkevinbyrne @UCDMedicine @UCD_Conway Brendan Loftus, Alison Murphy, @nvrlucdireland . @arambaut . @NetworkArtic @nanopore #teamwork

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Kevin Byrne

2 years

Another horrific example of why those that live in, work and socialise in Dublin city centre keep insisting on visible on-the-street policing at the level of other EU capitals. We need a round the clock Garda presence at key locations. Thugs can't be allowed act with impunity.

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The Irish Times

2 years

David Browne (21) was assaulted while socialising in the city centre last weekend

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Kevin Byrne

4 years

Six One News TV report from @emma_okelly with Prof Luke O'Neill & Prof Catherine Godson discussing our Open Letter's call for a Dept of Higher Education & Research, and the sector's funding crisis. RTÉ: 1,500 scientists warn of third-level funding crisis

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Kevin Byrne

4 months

Local residents very much welcome this morning's clearance of the huge tent encampment from Lower Mount Street after a very stressful 14 months. And we welcome the new Taoiseach's commitment that tent encampments will not be allowed return. Thank you to all the agencies involved.

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RTÉ News

4 months

A multi-agency operation is under way to move people from Mount Street in Dublin, where they have been living in tents

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Kevin Byrne

3 years

@marie_sherlock Dublin city centre *is* a residential neighbourhood - a very neglected residential neighbourhood, due to dismissive attitudes like this from officials and policymakers. We should be looking to have much more residential in the city core, not discouraging it through neglect.

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Kevin Byrne

11 months

The State funding the purchase of property by private charities is not a good model. All such properties should be owned by the State and managed by charities or other operators. Taxpayers should not be endowing large property portfolios into private hands with minimal oversight.

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Kevin Byrne

1 year

Great night at the @TheRestHistory live show in Dublin #RIHLive . Delighted @dcsandbrook and @holland_tom had fun on stage answering The Doctor's "what if" question!! 😂 Lovely to meet the guys afterwards. Best of luck with the Dublin episodes!

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Kevin Byrne

1 year

@TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook What if Britain had passed and implemented the first Home Rule Bill in 1886? Would Ireland still be in the Union? #RIHLive

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Kevin Byrne

4 months

I have an opinion piece in today's Irish Independent on the urgent need to deal with the growing crisis on Mount Street. Kevin Byrne: Mount Street’s ‘shanty town’ is an appalling blight on Dublin, and calamity awaits if Government continues to ignore it

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Kevin Byrne

2 months

Another serious assault on a tourist. Shows yet again the desperate need for visible on-the-street policing of the urban core around the clock, at the levels we see in other EU capitals, both to restore deterrence to criminals and reassurance to residents and visitors.

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Irish Daily Mirror

2 months

Canadian tourist fighting for his life following vicious assault in Dublin

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Kevin Byrne

27 days

It's now 3 months since barriers went up on Mount Street & the Grand Canal and 17 months since the State started putting chaos on Dublin's streets, which continues, with most of the 2,400 unaccommodated asylum seekers sleeping rough in the capital, putting huge strain on the city

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Kevin Byrne

3 years

Dublin city centre *is* a residential neighbourhood - a very neglected residential neighbourhood, due to dismissive attitudes like this from officials and policymakers. We should be looking to have much more residential in the city core, not discouraging it through neglect.

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Kevin Byrne

9 months

No one who cares about Dublin was surprised by the #DublinRiots . This is me talking to the @IrishTimes 18 months ago about issues that came to a head in Thursday's violence. Residents & retailers have been warning about these growing problems for years with little to no response.

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Kevin Byrne

2 years

I recently spoke to the Irish Times about antisocial behaviour in Dublin city centre as @sgcra chair. I discuss a lack of visible policing, overconcentration of drug services between the canals, the surrender of the streets in the pandemic & threat to city centre's large tax take

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Kevin Byrne

4 months

I spoke to @rtenews this morning about the need to move the International Protection Office out of the city centre as it clearly cannot operate safely on a city thoroughfare anymore. A broken system, that is failing both asylum seekers & residents, cannot be tolerated any longer.

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RTÉ News

4 months

There are now 100 tents pitched along the Grand Canal, sheltering unaccommodated International Protection applicants

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Kevin Byrne

3 years

@ciarancannon Thank you for saying this. As you say recognising a problem is the key first step. It has been too long ignored. Dublin city centre is in trouble. Inadequate policing, unchecked antisocial behaviour, filthy streets, appalling public realm and overconcentration of social services.

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Kevin Byrne

4 years

20 years ago today the first draft sequence of the human genome was announced after years of work by hundreds of researchers across the world, including three in Ireland all then at Trinity College (Prof Ken Wolfe, Prof Aoife McLysaght & Dr Karsten Hokamp)

‘The wondrous map’: how unlocking human DNA changed the course of science

Thanks to the success of the Human Genome Project, 20 years ago this week, scientists can track biology and disease at a molecular level

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Kevin Byrne

4 years

The Irish Science community has organised an Open Letter calling for a cabinet-level Dept of Higher Education & Research and highlighting the sector's funding crisis. I encourage colleagues at home and abroad to sign at . It's time to make our voice heard.

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Kevin Byrne

1 year

So we're now surrendering and closing parts of the city due to the unwillingness to adequately police Dublin city centre at the level you'd see in other EU capitals. As the @DublinInquirer article says this is "a sign of a poorly managed city centre and an absence of policing."

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1 year

Councillors have reluctantly agreed to start moves to close a laneway off Abbey Street. “It is regularly used for intravenous drug use and is littered with needles and other drug paraphernalia,” says a council report.

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Kevin Byrne

5 years

@DUPleader @duponline More deeply embarrassing than your support for the suspension of Parliament by an unelected PM without a House of Commons majority or popular support? All to facilitate Northern Ireland's forced removal from the EU against the democratic will of a majority of people living there.

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Kevin Byrne

9 months

"There is no real leadership in Dublin. The city has effectively been abandoned by national Government, left rudderless by the lack of a cohesive future plan by local government" We need a directly elected powerful Mayor for Dublin urgently to ensure capital has a vibrant future

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Irish Times Opinion

@IrishTimesOpEd

9 months

Dublin is broken: On edge, leaderless and abandoned by Government via @IrishTimesOpEd

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Kevin Byrne

4 months

Residents welcome this morning's clearance of the Grand Canal encampment. It had quickly expanded to over 100 tents in under a week so action was needed. Given this is the 4th such operation required in area in a year it's clear IPO processing needs to move out of the city centre

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RTÉ News

4 months

#Breaking Operation to remove migrant tents along Grand Canal in Dublin and relocate asylum seekers under way

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Kevin Byrne

4 months

I spoke to @rtenews earlier on behalf of local residents about the large tent encampment that emerged on the Grand Canal right beside Lower Mount Street last night & called on the Taoiseach to follow through on his commitment not to allow "shanty towns" to develop in Dublin city.

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RTÉ News

4 months

Residents in an area where asylum seekers have pitched tents are calling on the Taoiseach to follow through on his commitment not to allow "shanty towns" to develop in Dublin city

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Kevin Byrne

4 months

This Drivetime interview with a local resident from a few weeks ago explains why residents don't want facilities that risk making the #ShantyTown permanent. Lower Mount Street is not an appropriate place for this. The tent encampment needs to be cleared.

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Kevin Byrne

5 months

Important interview with resident living right next to the squalid tent encampment at the IPO on Lower Mount St. Sympathetic, but making clear this is no place for 100 tents & despairing of no authorities taking responsibility (full interview from 1h39m)

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Kevin Byrne

5 months

This distressing letter from residents living beside the chaotic & evergrowing tent encampment at the IPO shows complete dereliction of duty by Govt. While there is sympathy for the men there this has gone on for 12mths & the impact on local residents & businesses is intolerable.

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Irish Times Letters

5 months

Tent encampment and apartment residents – squalor in Dublin city centre

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Kevin Byrne

6 months

A clear rebuke by the people of the government's judgement. Govt need to stop listening to unrepresentative lobby groups & listen to actual voters instead. Public didn't ask for this vote. Time also to reflect on State funding for NGOs so clearly out of step with public opinion.

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Gavan Reilly

6 months

The Care Amendment has garnered the highest ever No vote, by percentage (73.9%), of the 38 Referendums to have taken place in the history of the State. The Family Amendment, at 67.7%, got the third-highest. @virginmedianews

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Kevin Byrne

9 months

Deis schools have been one of the single best government interventions of the last 20 years. While it shouldn't be the only metric 63% of Deis schools-leavers going to college this year is a clear dividend. Huge credit to the teachers in Deis schools changing lives & communities.

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Irish Times Education

@IrishTimesEdu_

9 months

Feeder schools: School-leavers from disadvantaged areas progress to college in near-record numbers

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Kevin Byrne

3 years

A good if depressing reference thread on the many public realm issues in Dublin city centre: unnecessary poles & signage; ugly bins & messy bin bags; pointless bollards; soddy surfaces; broken lights; Luas overhead wires; and ugly electrical boxes everywhere.

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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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Kevin Byrne

2 months

Look, an actual real Mayor, doing mayoral things. Almost like you see in countries that don't forsake their cities. And with the actual executive power to push for real outcomes, and a popular mandate and five year term to do so. Tell me again why Dublin isn't allowed have this?

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John Moran, Mayor of Limerick

2 months

Great follow up briefing today at Henry Street from @gardainfo team to work out actions arising from last week’s session with city traders and @LimerickChamber . I was delighted to meet the new trainees who have just started and will spend the next few months training on the

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Kevin Byrne

4 years

@SimonHarrisTD @scienceirel Best of luck in your new role Minister. As we have learned during #COVID19 strong independent advice helps government in doing its work. Returning to having a stand-alone Chief Scientific Advisor would benefit the government and is a reform the sector would strongly support.

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Kevin Byrne

1 year

This latest assault was in Temple Bar - the tourist heart of our capital that most visitors pay a visit to. There should be multiple beat patrols on duty in the area 24 hours a day. This small area brings in more than enough tax revenue and goodwill to justify some basic policing

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Kevin Byrne

1 year

My letter on behalf of @sgcra in today's Irish Times on how it's time the nation once again took some pride in its capital and put attention and resources into addressing its current neglect.

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Kevin Byrne

5 years

Happy 30th birthday to the World Wide Web! This time last year I visited the (very modest) office in @CERN where it all began with @lawlessj . A great example of how undertaking basic research can change the world #web30

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Kevin Byrne

3 years

Honoured to have been elected to the @DubCityCouncil Housing SPC (Strategic Policy Committee) on behalf of @sgcra by @DublinCityPPN members. My main priority will be trying to foster a vision for a large sustainable mixed-income residental community in the city's urban core.

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Kevin Byrne

8 months

We need someone who loves Dublin running Dublin. It's time to switch to a new model of a powerful directly-elected executive Mayor of Dublin. The proposed plebiscite on this should happen on the same day as the March referendum. Would allow for the election of first Mayor in June

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Irish Times Opinion

@IrishTimesOpEd

8 months

Opinion: Closing a street is a symptom of a city giving up on itself via @IrishTimesOpEd

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Kevin Byrne

8 months

Was delighted to receive a @UCD_CHAS 10 year service award last week alongside @Torulaspora and a few other @UCDMedicine colleagues. Thanks to the members of the lab who came along to help celebrate. (Harry Clarke's famous Kevin Barry stained glass window is in the background.)

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Kevin Byrne

4 months

I spoke to @rtenews earlier today on behalf of local residents about the crisis on Lower Mount Street with the 'Tent City' that is now there 14 months and has recently massively expanded. I welcome Government commitments this evening to finally clear it.

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People in Mount St 'shanty town' will be given shelter

Taoiseach Simon Harris has said that once asylum seekers sleeping on Mount Street in Dublin are given accommodation the encampment around the International Protection Office will not be allowed to...

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Kevin Byrne

4 months

I spoke to the @Independent_ie earlier today on behalf of local residents about the crisis on Lower Mount Street with the 'Tent City' that is now there 14 months and has recently massively expanded. I welcome Government commitments this evening to clear it

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Kevin Byrne

4 years

Very good to see @MichealMartinTD reiterate his commitment to creating a Dept of Higher Education & Research. We need a cabinet minister whose sole focus is the university sector & wider research agenda, which have been badly neglected over the last decade

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Kevin Byrne

6 months

At today's @DubCityCouncil Housing SPC I raised urgent need for resolution of the crisis at the huge tent encampment on Lower Mount St. It's disgraceful that for 2nd time in 12mths Govt allowed this to happen in Dublin's city centre. 150 tents, piles of waste & disease spreading

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Kevin Byrne

3 months

Another serious assault on a tourist. Shows yet again the desperate need for visible on-the-street policing of the urban core around the clock, at the levels we see in other EU capitals, both to restore deterrence to criminals and reassurance to residents and visitors.

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Irish Independent

@Independent_ie

3 months

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

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Kevin Byrne

9 months

Or... how about... policing Dublin city centre around the clock with visible street patrols like you would see in every other EU capital city... why do policymakers find it so hard to understand the deterrence need and reassurance value of this completely standard approach?

@IrishTimes

The Irish Times

9 months

The full 24/7 pedestrianization of Dublin’s new civic spaces is being reconsidered by Dublin City Council following the recent riots in the city centre, it has emerged.

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Kevin Byrne

4 years

An alternative history 1983 sees Ireland's first astronaut Doreen Campbell (portrayed by @opennyobrien ) make a pivotal discovery while working in #Skylab for @esa in the second season premiere of the excellent #ForAllMankind

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Kevin Byrne

2 years

@OCallaghanJim Thank you for raising this Jim. Residents and visitors to the city core have become very concerned about this big increase in anti-social behaviour. It's very welcome to see a senior Dublin TD highlight the lack of adequate visible policing at the level of other EU capitals.

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Kevin Byrne

2 months

@DaraghCassidy Drury Street last night... This isn't even illegal dumping - this is where nearby businesses are meant to put their rubbish 🤷‍♂️

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Kevin Byrne

2 years

@CWeston_Indo Good to see this issue getting attention at last. The increase in standing charges this past year is completely unjustified. Unit price increases in an energy crisis can be justified but the cost of running the network hasn't changed, so standing charges shouldn't have either.

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Kevin Byrne

6 years

Collecting soil sample by #GrandCanal for @ucddublin course I help run, where undergrads isolate, culture, identify & sequence yeasts from soil samples across Ireland. Last year’s class found a completely new species & published papers & first ever genome sequences for 3 others

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Kevin Byrne

1 year

Fully agree - Waterford city centre's public realm looks great - lovely surface finishes that wear well, pedestrian friendly throughout, greenery, quirky art installations, historic fabric respected, consistent and attractive street fixtures. @DubCityCouncil could learn a lot.

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Síle Ginnane

1 year

Said many a time before me: Waterford city core is streets ahead on public realm - the quality of design, materials used, shady trees, uncluttered streets, places to sit. But mainly it’s the sense that the city wants people to enjoy their public space, which is an absolute joy.

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Kevin Byrne

4 months

Week 60: the #ShantyTown is now a lead international story, with stark imagery. Maybe some embarrassment might get Government to deal with its mess... Dublin's migrant 'tent city': Makeshift encampment lines the pavements around asylum processing centre

Dublin's migrant 'tent city'

The string of makeshift accommodation was seen this morning stretching around the International Protection Office and continuing along the road

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Kevin Byrne

2 months

Shocking but not surprising that @waterwaysirelan "has not been contacted by Minister for Integration Roderic O'Gorman or any of his officials on this matter" given they've also ignored Dublin residents & businesses over the 16mths they've been bringing this chaos into the city.

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RTÉ News

2 months

Waterways Ireland has said that it will erect further fencing along the Grand Canal in Dublin if needed, according its chief executive

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Kevin Byrne

2 years

@stephen_coyne More trees will benefit almost all streets but as you rightly say South Anne St is a rare Dublin street with a lovely vista so in this case I think no trees would be better. The focus should be on top quality surface materials that look good, wear well and enhance the vista.

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Kevin Byrne

4 years

Irish Examiner: 1,500 scientists call for voice at Cabinet to stop Ireland becoming science 'backwater'

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1,500 scientists call for voice at Cabinet to stop Ireland becoming science 'backwater'

More than 1,500 scientists, including many leading the fight against Covid-19, are calling for a voice for science at the Cabinet table.

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Kevin Byrne

6 years

Delighted to support @Tiernanbrady at his European elections campaign coffee morning in the @dublinmuseum today #EE19

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Kevin Byrne

4 months

These ongoing difficulties only a day after the tent city was cleared show why residents & businesses feel the IPO can no longer safely operate from its current location. The IPO demonstrably can't manage their inflow or provide adequate conditions on a city centre thoroughfare.

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RTÉ News

4 months

A large crowd of close to 100 International Protection applicants who gathered outside the International Protection Accommodation Services office on Mount Street in Dublin have been told there is no accommodation available for them today

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Kevin Byrne

3 years

With bank holidays now for all four of the old Celtic seasonal festivals we should formally name them such: - Imbolc / St Brigid's Day (Fri 1st or First Mon February) - Bealtaine / May Day (First Mon May) - Lughnasa (First Mon August) - Samhain / Halloween (Last Mon October)

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Kevin Byrne

3 years

It was great to be back teaching in-person today for the first time in 22 months! 🧬💻 @ucddublin @UCD_Conway @UCDMedicine @UCD_SBBS

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Kevin Byrne

2 years

@sgcra I'd like to enter this blob for consideration in #tarfest - just off our capital's premier street in the shadow of the Spire of Dublin - a beautiful tar blob in a sea of yellow asphalt

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Kevin Byrne

5 months

The biggest law and order need is for enhanced sentencing of repeat offenders. A small number of individuals carry out most burglaries, assaults, shoplifting, etc. causing massive social harm. They need taking off the streets. (For context see graph below - data from Sweden)

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Irish Independent

@Independent_ie

5 months

20 years in jail with no chance of parole: Simon Harris’s law and order plan

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Kevin Byrne

2 years

@NiallJournal_ie @thejournal_ie Fully agree that a core problem is a "management system that favours statistics over actual police work". Ordinary citizens aren't actually that interested in arrests or prosecutions after the fact, we'd much prefer prevention and deterrence from visible on-the-street policing.

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Kevin Byrne

2 years

@DaraghCassidy @DubCityCouncil At least DCC have retained the reductant pedestrian crossing lights at the Grafton St end of Suffolk St over that time. Gives a few poles something pointless to do.

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Kevin Byrne

5 months

This is promising from the new Chief Executive of Dublin City Council. The simple fact of acknowledging the problems with inadequate policing, flimsy on-street bin bags, transport capacity and housing output is a start. Has been too much denial in past. Now let's see improvements

@rtenews

RTÉ News

5 months

There are not enough gardaí policing the streets of Dublin, according to the Chief Executive of Dublin City Council

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Kevin Byrne

5 years

I very much welcome @MichealMartinTD 's commitment to establish a separate Dept of Higher Education & Research at this morning's @IUAofficial lecture. We need a cabinet minister whose sole focus is the university sector & wider research agenda #SaveOurSpark

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Kevin Byrne

10 months

Absolutely delighted Ireland is finally joining #CERN ! Visited @CERN five years ago & was blown away by the cutting edge science we've been missing out being part of. Long time coming - first campaign to join I recall was back when I was studying particle physics in last century!

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Kevin O'Sullivan

10 months

A great day in the offing for Irish science. Finally we are about to join CERN, the world's leading institute for research into particle physics... Well done to those who fought for the cause over many years! #irishscience

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Kevin Byrne

3 years

Spoke to @rtenews on behalf of @sgcra as part of RTE's #dbsbyelection coverage. Made the point that Dublin needs a vision for a large mixed-income residential community in the urban core and that this is key to addressing antisocial behaviour and the decline of city centre retail

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Kevin Byrne

1 month

Failing to manage these huge numbers is having ongoing chaotic impacts: currently there are over 2,400 unaccommodated asylum seekers, most of them sleeping rough in Dublin city, putting absolutely immense strain on the capital & its residents & businesses.

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Barry Whyte

1 month

Asylum applications per EU country in May… Ireland - Asylum applications per million inhabitants : 381 EU - Asylum applications per million inhabitants : 184 Ireland highest in EU per capita numbers of asylum applications.

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Kevin Byrne

6 months

Here's a tip sheet for govt going forward after #Referendum2024 : - does idea help build more housing, add health, transit or infrastructure capacity, or make the streets safer - if so do it - does idea come from an unrepresentative NGO & have no public support - if so don't do it

@IrishTimesPol

Irish Times Politics

6 months

Coalition reeling after reversal on both referendums via @IrishTimesPol

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Kevin Byrne

8 months

70% of Dublin Airport asylum applicants presented without a passport in 2023 - completely unacceptable level - we need to restore the airplane door checks we had in 2019 that refused entry to those with fake/no documents (with return at airline's expense)

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RTÉ Prime Time

8 months

3,285 people arrived to Dublin Airport without a valid identity document in 2023, representing nearly 70% of all asylum applications made at the airport. READ @MurphyPaule : @rtenews | #rtept

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Kevin Byrne

4 years

Great to see strong signals this morning that a cabinet-level Dept of Higher Education & Research is on the cards as part of a wider reorganisation of government. It appears our recent 1,700 signature petition has been listened to.

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Kevin Byrne

1 month

The simplest solution is adding external racks or shelves to bins that Re-Turn eligible cans or bottles can then be left in. They are common in other jurisdictions with similar schemes.

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Irish Independent

@Independent_ie

1 month

Commuters warned not to rifle through bins at stations for bottles and cans to earn Deposit Return Scheme cash

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Kevin Byrne

5 months

A welcome promise from the incoming Taoiseach. But the capital doesn't need another talking shop - it needs actions to address the well-known and long-standing issues it faces. Harris pledges to "immediately convene a Dublin City Centre Taskforce"

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Kevin Byrne

4 years

So true and it's so gratifying to see that investment paying dividends in a time of crisis. However government commitment has wavered badly over the last decade. And we'll pay the price in the future if Ireland doesn't recommit to proper investment in scientific research urgently

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Doctor Love

4 years

So, Ireland’s decision to step into the world of investment in scientific research in the late 1990s (PRTLI & SFI) is paying dividends. We actually have a cadre of competent scientists, from epidemiologists to immunologists to data modellers, to inform covid policy. #knowledge

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Kevin Byrne

3 years

@surfguna @Eoin_Hayes After is closed as a hospital in 1986 it was used for some community health services like that for many years. It fully closed in 2019 and is totally vacant now. There was talk of the HSE selling it but nothing has happened to date.

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Kevin Byrne

2 years

While enjoyable RTE's #TwoTribes on the Civil War parties was much too focused on the 1980s/1990s. A decade ago on #TWIP myself and @AnMailleach discussed the deep roots of FF & FG, going back before the Civil War, using surnames to study the two tribes.

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Irish Political Surnames may indicate party affiliation

For more go to http://www.rte.ie/player/#Is there such a thing as a Fianna Fail gene or a Fine Gael gene?

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Kevin Byrne

4 months

Was very happy to sign this Residents' Network statement as Chair of @sgcra . While it shouldn't have come to this I'm very proud of how inner city residents and businesses have come together in the face of this untenable situation.

@rtenews

RTÉ News

4 months

A residents' group in Dublin’s south inner city has called for people staying in tents on Mount Street to be moved to "more appropriate space of accommodation or interim shelter"

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Kevin Byrne

3 years

What happened on South William Street was inevitable & predicted. It's bad for the city, Gardai, govt & public. Gives unnecessary succour to hard left & hard right. Was big mistake not to advance opening of outdoor hospitality by few days after last weekend. Completely avoidable.

@IrishTimes

The Irish Times

3 years

Garda public order units called to South William Street and surrounding areas

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Kevin Byrne

2 months

'Herons atop prison fencing along the Grand Canal' Dublin Summer 2024

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Kevin Byrne

2 years

Here's a question... Does anyone on the NTA board do a daily commute by public transport? Anyone use Dublin Bus late in the evenings? Anyone use the Luas Red Line regularly? Judging by this response I very much doubt it.

@rtenews

RTÉ News

2 years

The National Transport Authority has said it does not believe there is a need for a dedicated policing unit on public transport

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Kevin Byrne

5 years

Enjoyed listening to David McWilliams @davidmcw discussing myself and @AnMailleach 's research on the deep roots of the FF / FG divide (from 12m20s on) You can read the underlying research here: YouTube version of the podcast here:

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EP41: Irish elections and the differences between Fine Gael & Fianna...

With an election coming and the RIC debate still raging, we examine the deep differences between FF and FG, what our grandfathers did in 1920, the class basi...

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David McWilliams

5 years

Election fever pod this week. We examine the deep differences between FF & FG, what grandfathers did in 1920, class in 1916, Leinster Rugby & Christian Brothers Revolutionaries & why Irish politics prevents populism. …/irish-elections-…/id1462649946…

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Kevin Byrne

4 years

We need better geographic reporting of cases. The Dublin HSE areas presented yesterday are too vague. Use LEAs. HSE database logs ED. LEAs are made up of EDs and have understandable boundaries. Put it together, refresh once a week and you've a reporting system everyone can follow

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Kevin Byrne

6 years

The loss of #CollegeGreen plaza is unfortunate, but the root problem is introduction of #LuasCrossCity without consideration of its impact on bus services. You can't just wish away the 140m annual #DublinBus journeys.

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Kevin Byrne

1 year

Dublin city centre is the heart of our national cultural and economic life, generating huge tax revenues from tourism, retail, gigs, hospitality and multinational HQs - all threatened by the lack of adequate round-the-clock on-street policing at levels seen in other EU capitals.

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TonightVMTV

1 year

"We can't afford to lose our reputation as a friendly city" - Richard Guiney of @DublinTown on anti-social behaviour in the capital #TonightVMTV

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Kevin Byrne

2 years

Looking back along the South Wall from Poolbeg Lighthouse this weekend

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