We're worst in Europe at greenhouse emissions per person. We could be the best and must be the best for a better, more balanced & fairer world for all.

🚨 Jürgen Klopp has launched a scathing attack on the cooling breaks being used during this World Cup. 👊 "Football is being held hostage by executives sitting in air-conditioned offices. These breaks are being presented as a shield for player welfare, a noble weapon against the heat. In reality, they are nothing more than a golden cage built for sponsors. When I saw players standing around during cooling breaks while television timeouts dictated the rhythm of the match, I couldn't help but ask myself: who is the World Cup really serving? The supporters? The players? Or the advertisers? A World Cup match should flow like a river. Instead, we are building dams in the middle of it so commercials can be shown. It's dangerous for the spirit of the game. Football used to be the main event, but it now risks becoming background music for an advertising show." He didn't hold back. 👏👏

Wait until vacant commercial is also measured, not just long term vacant stock. Walk down a street in any town beyond the pale. Walk down a village. Visit a Gaeltacht county. Or comparing stock levels to Eu levels. Or just asking young. CSO won’t be allowed do this by Dpts

It’s an complex engineering feat that hasn’t been successful economically elsewhere . How on earth the editor let a caption of cutting electricity prices is bizarre .

The EU housing affordable plan is great as it provides all the actions that the NPF fails to do. 1. Add supply 2. Focus on young (!) 3. Add finance 4. Scale up sustainable and break market manipulation. That’s why not a single councillor or Dept is rolling out the EU’s plan.

I won’t waste my time writing about risky corporate taxes again ... definitely irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Blocked it for 10 years. Don’t measure any LA monthly in any district on housing delivery. Is @SimonHarrisTD relieving all Councillors in housing & economic SPC’s from their responsibilities @whytebarry ?

Meanwhile the @PlanningReg all believe. It measuring home ownership in all those county plans ‘isn’t a crisis.’ Measure nothing. Get nothing. Planning regulator & councillors plus council exec has done more damage in 10 years from rebuilding Ireland & NPF to young than English.

A new Deloitte report shows the housing crisis and cost of living are reshaping the lives of young people in Ireland. 8 in 10 Gen Z and millennials say housing affordability is influencing their career decisions. #VMNews

More spin. Because the planning regulator and the council execs haven’t collected anything. And councillors haven’t measure non-collection in budgets, the BS will come that ‘we don’t have ‘resource’’ and the whackamole continues. Measure it digitally. Auto-deduct. Bypass CCMA.

There’s similar in Letterkenny, owned by HSE and yet the HsE and councillors don’t bring it back into use to add homes for nurses. Instead the HsE & Council just hire temp’s and rent at huge cost. Why not bring the hospital back into use, or is it the concrete lads get upset?

The Dutch mobility system isn't just built around cycling. It's built around bike-train intermodality: the bike solves the train's convenience problem and the train solves the bike's range problem. Together they offer an attractive alternative to driving: youtu.be/jq93DgLvmFc

It’s now longest to get a home, highest unaffordability, least ownership in young and the most wealth gain in old overseeing policies & plans. It’s not a crisis; it’s ‘wealth for some, punch down young’ by councillors & Depts’ Shouldn’t be a lottery. onemillionhomes.ie/dashboard

Australia’s housing obsession is one of its greatest weaknesses. Rising house prices are not a sign of prosperity. What they actually tell you is that more money is being borrowed from the banking sector to buy homes. The cause of rising house prices is rising household debt, and that is unproductive. House prices are now five times more expensive than consumer goods compared to 1970. We should never have allowed that to happen. Housing should not be an asset. It is not something you should profit out of. It is something you should live in. The people who really benefit from rising house prices are real estate agents and property developers, not the families who live in them. We are paupers living inside castles. Paying a fortune on the mortgage, a fortune on private schools, and out of the remainder, just trying to live. For the more information, check out the comment section, #SteveKeen #AustraliaProperty #HousingCrisis #MortgageDebt #Economics #HousingAffordability

My recent Substack piece: Why is Copenhagen's bike network amazing while your city can barely paint a door-zone bike lane? (link in reply)

Dublin City Council's boss issued a stark warning over government failure to pay infrastructure-funding development levies on social housing schemes. The consequences will include community fragmentation and social isolation, he warned. jrnl.ie/7068988

Just one third of new homes go on sale on open market irishtimes.com/business/2026…

Good story @killianwoods Another piece to this; home ownership continues to fall as the NPF assumes only 1 in 3 graduates & apprentices wish to remain / get homes. Even less ownership in rural & villages, where there are zero targets for affordable. NPF is a disaster.

La presencia de Airbnb incrementa los alquileres y el precio de la vivienda, evidencias de ciudades francesas, italianas y españolas.

The latest UN housing report shows 3.4 billion people worldwide lack access to adequate housing, with 1.1 billion living in informal settlements – the highest level on record In most countries home ownership is now described as ‘impossibly unaffordable’

Higher-income Irish households benefit twice as much from fuel supports, ESRI finds irishtimes.com/business/2026…