Voting in St Joseph’s Primary School, Navan Road Cabra at the last general Election
Further to the government’s slow meltdown.
‘Statto’ writes:
Could you ask your readers: In the event of a General Election (within the next two months) would they vote radically different from the last time? Would they be more inclined to vote for an independent candidate over established parties? And realistically what would their preferred coalition look like?
Anyone?
Rollingnews
From top: Ticketmaster logo; Today’s Irish Independent
Snoopy Snoo writes:
Interesting to see that data provided solely by Ticketmaster has led to the crafting of a report on how valuable live events are to the economy.
Considering the data was collected by 1st of March last year, I wonder if the publication of this report has anything to do with the recent furore over U2 tickets instantly appearing on Seatwave, a Ticketmaster company?
Anyone?
Gigs, festivals and theatre rake in a €1.7bn live bonanza (Melanie Finn, Independent.ie)
Today’s Irish Times
Niall writes:
Does this piece from The Irish Times constitute news, fake news or just advertising in disguise?
Anyone?
Never think about the place?
Or Is your view of home green-tinted?
Scott De Buitléir writes:
I’m currently looking for Irish people living abroad, or Irish people who have returned home after living abroad, to take part in a survey on what ‘home’ means to the Irish.
The research is for a book I’m currently working on, titled ‘The Irish Outlander’. I’m in the very early stages of this project, but I hope for the book to be out in early 2018.
To sign up to take part please go here. Thank you.
What Does ‘Home’ Mean To You? (Scott De Buitléir)
Pic County Kerry by Scott De Buitléir
Smithfield Square, Dublin 7
Rory writes:
OK, so it’s a bit of an odd one, but basically I am trying to find somebody who helped me last week, and was hoping Broadsheet might come to the rescue.
Long story short, I was walking through Smithfield last Tuesday (January 24) morning on my way to work when I became dizzy. Instead of doing the sensible thing and sitting down, I decided to keep walking and at that point, things get very blurry.
My next bit of memory is sitting on a kerb or a step with the kind-hearted person who came to help me, called an ambulance and waited with me for the ambulance.
More than anything, I just want to say thank you to her. I’m sure it would have been far easier to walk on past me, but you didn’t. So thank you.
(And just for your own peace of mind, I’m OK. The staff at the Mater were brilliant and did a battery of tests on me over the following 36 hours, and there is no lasting damaged done, just a few bruises from where I must have landed)
So if she is not a Broadsheeter herself, I’m hoping one of her friends might be a reader and might be able to forward this on to her (I’m hoping this isn’t such a regular occurrence that it wouldn’t have earned at least a brief mention in a conversation) and she might let me know she got this: rorysmithfield@gmail.com. Thank you.
Anyone?
Pic: DublinTown.ie
Louis is back.
Dam.
Louis le Fronde writes:
I refer you to this very interesting article in The Guardian about Amsterdam benefitng from Brexit…and it begs the question, why would any firm move to Dublin when there is Amsterdam?
Anyone?
The Beacon South Quarter, Sandyford, Dublin 18
About 600 apartment owners in four blocks at the development are understood to be affected by the defects which include “a large number of fire safety deficiencies” according to a fire consultant’s report .
Owners of apartments in blocks A, B, C and D at Beacon are being asked by BSQ Management Company Ltd to pay €9.1 million into a sinking fund for fire remedial works, while residents in blocks A and D are being asked for just over €1 million in relation to water damage….
South Dublin apartment owners face €10m bill to fix defects (Irish Times)
Augustus writes:
Is this legal?
Anyone?
Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris
Louis Le Fronde writes:
As a French-Canadian looking from the outside-in. Might I ask a couple of simple questions?
Why do you not have directly elected mayors in Ireland?
Why is it that Dublin, your capital city does not have a directly elected mayor with executive power, when it is pretty obvious it needs one?
I’m sure, I can predict some of the stock answers readers of Broadsheet are likely to give, including the fear that certain politicians might have, such as your prime minister feeling overshadowed by a strong Mayor in Dublin (it wouldn’t be hard). But such is the nature of politics. It was ever thus.
Nevertheless, I thought I might raise these questions with you directly.
And to those first two questions might I add three more?
Is it not absurd that Ireland does not have a system of directly elected mayors?
Is it not absurd, that Dublin which is marketed as a dynamic European city, does not have a directly elected mayor?
and finally,
What are you going to do about it?
Anyone/FIGHT!
Antoine D’Alton writes:
If Ireland at some future date reunites, will the tricolour be an acceptable flag for the nation? As most readers of Broadsheet will know, the Irish national flag is not original in terms of design, rather it is a pastiche of the French tricolore. The supreme irony of the tricolour is that it was originally presented as a flag which was supposed to be representative of the two dominant and opposing traditions on this island.
I would like to ask Broadsheet readers the following questions:
Should Ireland persist with the Tricolour?
Should it be changed?
What are your thoughts on the Flag of the Four Provinces (above)?
Would it be a suitable alternative?
Anyone?
Flags of our fathers, but what about our sons? (Antoine D’Alton, Funkshot)
Puca writes:
Walking my dog on extension lead in Sandymount [Dublin 4] yesterday evening and my dog was about 10 ft behind me (sniffing railings) and suddenly some guy comes jogging up from behind with a dog also on a lead. T
he two dogs snarl at bare teeth at each other. I immediately rein my dog in and apologise but the bearded jogger stops and asks
“What’s that about?”
I said I didn’t see them approaching from behind and apologised again but he persists
“What’s that about?”
When I say that I have already apologised and that he seems to be implying it was an intentional manoeuvre by me, he comes back with:
“Your dog attacked mine, I’m entitled to give you grief”
As if it’s a contract I have unwittingly signed. After some handbags, it all ended with his pithy:
“Oh fuck off.”
As he jogged away.
The encounter itself was mildly diverting, but his language describing his entitlement to give grief (as if I had not read the Ts & Cs of dog walking) was illuminating.
Have the unwritten rules of the social contract been replaced with an actual contract (entitlements and all)?
Anyone?
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