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Aidan Regan

@Aidan_Regan

1 year

Enormous security queue in Berlin airport. Police officer eventually shouts “EU citizens come this way”. All the Irish/EU citizens move to fast track automation. Hundreds of UK citizens left fuming Some Irish lad shouts “yis should never have voted for f**ckin Brexit” 😅

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@Aidan_Regan

3 years

Met this legend on the banks of the Royal Canal earlier. He's from Cuba, and regularly cleans up the canal. This is what he cleaned up today, on one just side of the banks, from Phibsboro to Drumcondra! Quote: "I do this for the people" @waterwaysirelan @DubCityCouncil

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@Aidan_Regan

2 years

If the state could issue a Compulsory Acquisition Order to take the land of Mayo farmers on behalf of Shell, they can do the same for the women of Ireland and take church land for the National Maternity Hospital.

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@Aidan_Regan

7 months

Maybe I’m missing something, but is Paddy Cosgrave being cancelled by corporate America for calling out the fact that Israel is breaking international law? If so, the problem is corporate America 🇺🇸

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@Aidan_Regan

1 year

A young woman shouts back: “We know”. “How much for an Irish passport”? 😅

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@Aidan_Regan

2 years

Can’t be said often or loud enough: Tax SUV’s out of existence.

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@Aidan_Regan

2 years

Dublin is an international city with a small village infrastructure.

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@Aidan_Regan

3 years

For a couple with no kids, you’d need to have a combined income of at least €200k, a €100k deposit, and the confidence to take on a €3800 monthly mortgage, for 31 years. That’s not a young professional couple. That’s the 1 per cent.

Gary Gannon TD

@GaryGannonTD

3 years

€895,000 does not tick a box for many young professionals in this city. The Irish Times repeating its fetishisation of a dysfunctional housing market that it was a cheerleader for during the boom. Surely there’s a line between newspaper & press release

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@Aidan_Regan

6 years

Today I counted 34 students sitting in a shared-seating space, silently staring at their smartphones. 16 years ago in the same space (the smoking area @ucddublin ), all you could hear was talk & laughter among students. The smartphone addiction is killing society #BlackMirror

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@Aidan_Regan

1 year

Make Ireland great again. #Railway

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@Aidan_Regan

1 year

Can’t be said often enough: Tax SUV’s (and those Landrover monstrosities) out of existence. Ban them from our urban centres. Treat them as extreme pollution.

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@Aidan_Regan

3 years

I’m all for a United Ireland if it leads to the end of Catholic-patronage of the education system, and the creation of the NHS in the south. #cblive

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2 years

You need income of over €130,000 to quality for a mortgage to buy an average-priced house in Dublin. This means that you need to be: - in the top 15% of income earners in Ireland. - in the top 6% of income earners in Europe. Let that reality sink in.

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@Aidan_Regan

1 year

How has Ireland not developed into the the Saudi Arabia of renewable tidal and wind energy? Or will it? #RealMapOfIreland

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@Aidan_Regan

4 years

Ireland won!! That's the headline from Dublin. - But who's Ireland? The European Court rejected the argument of illegal state aid. They found that what Ireland did was legal. - It was legal to allow Apple to pay 0.005% tax. How much tax do you pay every month? #Ireland

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@Aidan_Regan

7 months

The two things are compatible: 1. Acknowledge that Hamas is a vile and violent fundamentalist-Islamist Jihadi organization. 2. Acknowledge that the extreme right wing nationalist Israeli states’ violent and illegal occupation of Palestine must end for peace to prevail.

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@Aidan_Regan

3 years

Nigel Dodd from the DUP wants the EU to adopt common sense solutions to ensure seamless trade and exports with the UK. Can someone tell Nigel that this common sense is called the single market. #Newsnight

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@Aidan_Regan

3 years

Portugal had Salazar. Spain had Franco. Ireland had it's Catholic-Monarchic State. The victims were not the upper middle class. The victims were the poor and vulnerable. Society is not to blame. The Church-State is to blame. #motherandbabyhomes #IndustrialSchools

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@Aidan_Regan

2 years

That Robert Troy statement about buying his “first house” at the age of 20 reveals just how unbelievably out touch so many politicians are on housing. Talk about fuelling peoples anger toward a decade of completely failed housing policies.

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@Aidan_Regan

3 years

The traffic is bedlam. The streets are busy. The parks are packed. Level 5 exists only in name.

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@Aidan_Regan

3 years

Here’s an idea - scrap the Leaving Cert, and let students self-select whatever course they want in year 1. If they get through their first year in college/uni, great. If they don’t, they don’t. My bet is that the vast majority of students will self-select accurately.

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@Aidan_Regan

3 years

The framing of housing on @morningireland earlier is all wrong. Apartments are homes too! We need to get out of this old-school mindset that apartments in the city are for transient workers, students and immigrants. We need family-friendly apartments in Dublin Central.

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@Aidan_Regan

3 years

Fair play to @donie for drawing attention to Ireland’s corporate tax regime and social media companies. Ryan Tubridy quickly moved it on. #LateLateShow

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@Aidan_Regan

2 years

Irish people ridiculing Britain's monarchy should remember that the patron of Ireland's primary education system is a monarchy in Rome that institutionalised faith formation on the myths and parables of someone who lived in the Middle East 2,000 years ago.

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@Aidan_Regan

2 years

In a Republic, the question we should be all asking: Why can't the Catholic Church gift all land upon which taxpayer-funded public services are delivered back to the state? - That includes 90+% of all Irish primary schools.

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Aidan Regan

@Aidan_Regan

6 years

Something that should never be forgotten from Irish history: In 2011, the Irish state took €17.5 billion (17 thousand millions) from it's sovereign wealth fund and gave it to the banks. Remember that every time a politician says we can't build houses #Homeless #Hypocrisy

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@Aidan_Regan

2 years

It can’t be said often enough. Unless a medical or work necessity: - Ban SUV’s from urban areas. - Move toward making them illegal. - Treat them as social and environmental pollution.

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@Aidan_Regan

6 years

There is a lesson in this for #RTE . It is not "balanced" to constantly invite the minority opinion of hard-right Catholic conservatives to comment on social affairs. The middle ground has shifted, and the media need to follow. #RepealedThe8th #8thref

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@Aidan_Regan

3 years

If you’re an Irish football fan, and want to see long term success, then start supporting and spending your money on the League of Ireland. Since World Cup 90, and arguably since the 70’s, the strategy has been to try recruit players from the UK. It’s a dead end. #IREVLUX

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@Aidan_Regan

2 years

There's an awful lot of middle class men sitting at their desks on Twitter calling for increased militarisation. Get a grip.

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@Aidan_Regan

2 years

One of the biggest anti-social problems in Dublin Central is illegal parking.

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@Aidan_Regan

3 years

I don’t get the reasoning behind stopping a vaccine because of a potential 1 in a million risk. If societal risk aversion was based on those numbers, absolutely no one should ever step into a car.

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@Aidan_Regan

3 years

It’s not enough that the state apologises to the victims of the Mother and Baby homes. We need full acknowledgment that Catholic Religious orders perpetuated a reign of terror on vulnerable people in Irish society. And we need action - Get the Church out of our schools!

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Aidan Regan

@Aidan_Regan

4 years

I really wish we would stop using the term "social housing" and use the term "public housing" instead. It captures much better the role of the state in providing this crucial part of societal infrastructure. No one says "social education" or "social transport". #GE2020

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@Aidan_Regan

6 months

The last time I was in Berlin, a waiter in a café gave me a free coffee. I asked why? He replied.. "because you are Irish.... your country understands the Palestinian issue". He then went on to describe the difficulties of being Arab in Berlin. Germany just doesn't get it.

Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz

@BMWK

6 months

It's almost four weeks since the horrific terrorist attack on #Israel . A lot has happened, the public debate has become heated and confused. Find thoughts from Vice-Chancellor Robert #Habeck in the video, putting the events in context. 📣With English, Hebrew and Arabic subtitles.

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Aidan Regan

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4 years

Many people will carry the covid-19 virus without any symptoms. But they are still infectious. Every interaction they have can put human life at risk. Imagine you are one of these people. This is the public health message that needs to be popularised. #COVID ー19

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@Aidan_Regan

6 months

Ordoliberal, New Keynesian, Post-Keynesian, Marxist.

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@Aidan_Regan

3 years

This is gold. Investment advise from Gillen Markets to global institutional property investors in Ireland: The biggest risk to their profit margins is government intervention to provide affordable housing.

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@Aidan_Regan

4 years

It's not a coincidence that in both Ireland and Germany #COVID19 cases have clustered in meat factories and old people's homes. These sectors are populated by migrant workers that live in cramped accommodation with poor hygiene standards. It's an exploitative class issue.

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@Aidan_Regan

3 years

There are two types of people in this world. Those who see the attacks of the Israeli state against a poverty-stricken occupied territory for what they are - an act of brutal and terrifying aggression, and those who try to justify it. #Palestine #PalestineUnderAttack

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@Aidan_Regan

2 years

I'd love to see the same public outrage that has emerged over the NMH in relation to the schooling system. Let's not forget that 90%+ of public taxpayer funded primary schools are governed by the Catholic Church. A reality that mind-boggles most external observers. #GetThemOut

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@Aidan_Regan

3 years

The language used in Ireland to talk about the 'housing market' reveals the core problem: - property ladder - starter home - trade up - equity - rental yield Housing is treated as an asset, to accumulate wealth. Housing will not be affordable for the many until this changes.

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@Aidan_Regan

5 years

When I lived in the Netherlands, I used to look forward to cycling home from work. In Dublin, I dread it. But do it because of time efficiency. The traffic. The aggression. The potholes. The broken tarmac. The dumping. The litter. It's a crash course. @DubCityCouncil

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@Aidan_Regan

2 years

"I bought me first gaff when I was 20". "10 of them I have now" "Look at you... 35 years old, master and PhD degrees coming out of your arse..." "Working day and night up in Dublin". "And what have you got to show for it...?" "Still sharing a room with your college palls".

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@Aidan_Regan

1 year

What could a senior banker earning 500k per year do better than someone earning 150k?

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@Aidan_Regan

3 years

You know Dublin City Council is broken when providing bins and toilets in the city is a cause for celebration.

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@Aidan_Regan

3 years

Why does Ireland still use monarchic symbols of nobility? - Royal Irish Academy - Lord Mayor of Dublin Not even the City of London uses ‘Lord’ to describe its Mayor.

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@Aidan_Regan

3 years

NPHET advises. Government decides. The government made the wrong decision. The brave thing to do is admit this. @FineGael @fiannafailparty

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@Aidan_Regan

4 years

Why does Ireland not have the public healthcare infrastructure to deal with a rise in #COVID19 ? This is the most important question that needs to be answered. The answer is complicated, no doubt. But the context is a society that is privately rich, publicly poor.

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@Aidan_Regan

4 years

I have a general rule these days. When I hear non-expert journalists and commentators on the radio speaking with absolute certainty about how best to manage #COVID19 , I turn it off.

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Aidan Regan

@Aidan_Regan

3 years

There are only 100 'new' houses for sale across the entire county of Dublin. - The population of Dublin is around 1.5 million. - Ireland has the 2nd fastest growing population in Europe. The future of Irish politics will be shaped by unequal access to housing.

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Aidan Regan

@Aidan_Regan

5 years

I'd love to see @FineGael express the same Twitter outrage toward the massive housing crisis in Dublin, as they do toward @sinnfeinireland

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@Aidan_Regan

1 year

I wish someone would create a washing machine that automatically detects when someone has left tissue in their pocket.

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Aidan Regan

@Aidan_Regan

3 years

I use an E-cargo bike. It cost a fraction of an E-car. I travel 110km a week. 25 mins from Cabra to UCD. I charge the battery twice a week for less than the price of a cup of coffee. Cheaper, quicker and more efficient than any car. Get a bike. @ClaireByrneLive #cblive

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Aidan Regan

@Aidan_Regan

2 years

It’s rather entertaining to read and watch so many of Ireland’s political and media elite try to understand the politics of Ireland’s under 40 generation. It never seems to occur to them that maybe, just maybe, they simply don’t share your economic and cultural world view.

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@Aidan_Regan

3 years

Journalists and commentators would do well to spend more time analysing why people are voting Sinn Féin, than looking for crooked timber amongst Sinn Féin activists.

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Aidan Regan

@Aidan_Regan

3 years

I always felt this was a useful analogy of upper-middle class conservative Catholic Ireland. - The appearance of politeness. - The confident sociability. But beneath this facade, a deep darkness, and an authoritarianism based on fear and intimidation #motherandbabyhomes

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@Aidan_Regan

2 years

The eurozone - a decade of not building for the future.

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@Aidan_Regan

2 years

I’d love to see a generation of students squatting the empty derelict buildings in Dublin City, turning them into socially useful creative spaces, and homes.

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@Aidan_Regan

3 years

Cull the herd of SUV’s that blight our city. @morningireland

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@Aidan_Regan

4 years

A European city with a growing deficit, no borrowing powers, limited fiscal capacity, a city centre that is falling apart, and in desperate need of resources, decides to cut taxes on property-wealth owners. Dublin city council is beyond an embarrassment at this stage.

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Aidan Regan

@Aidan_Regan

3 years

That’s not the Irish economy. It’s the profits and value-added of big pharma and big tech US MNEs. There’s lots to admire about the resilience of domestic Irish business. But let’s not pretend GDP is a measure of the Irish economy.

Fine Gael

@FineGael

3 years

It’s official: Ireland’s economy is the only economy in the EU to grow in 2020. Careful management of the public finances over recent years means that Ireland has entered the #Covid19 pandemic from a position of strength.

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Aidan Regan

@Aidan_Regan

4 years

When will all the nonsense start that cancelling the #RIC commemoration is a sign that Northern unionists will not be welcome in any future United Ireland? Let's just make this clear now: The two things are completely and utterly unrelated.

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@Aidan_Regan

6 years

The next big change has to be getting rid of the church from our public schools #repealthe8th #VoteYes #TogetherForYes

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@Aidan_Regan

4 years

Pleased to welcome this little bundle of joy into the world. - Leonard O'Regan Velasco (Leo). I am in complete awe at his mother. Extraordinary inner strength and courage. - Women are hero's. ♀️ ❤️💜

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1 year

I know I am like a broken record. But every progressive and liberal minded person in Ireland should ask themselves - How the hell do we still have gender-segregated taxpayer-funded schools? @Education_Ire

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@Aidan_Regan

4 years

What I would love to hear is someone from FG publicly showing humility and self-critique, admitting policy error and mistakes, and acknowledging they completely misread public opinion both before and during this election. - Not a chance. #CBlive #GE2020

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Aidan Regan

@Aidan_Regan

3 years

@ucddublin @UCDEstates @HumanitiesUCD @ucdscience @ucdsocscilaw @UCDQuinnSchool @UCD_CHAS @UCDEngArch @UCDLibrary @UCDstudents @ucdsportsclubs Would love to see a mural of him somewhere on campus.

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Aidan Regan

@Aidan_Regan

6 months

I hope this is finally the wake up call that the government and the Gardaí need - Dublin City has a major public order problem. And it is being fuelled and exploited by far-right fascist activists, online and offline. #DublinRiots

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Aidan Regan

@Aidan_Regan

2 years

Has anyone ever stopped to ask why the national maternity hospital is being located in a part of Dublin with one of the lowest demographic growth rates in the country, and where 99% of people cannot afford to live? How did that happen?

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@Aidan_Regan

2 years

Almost 30% of students who drive to UCD live within 6 km of Belfield campus. Madness.

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Aidan Regan

@Aidan_Regan

4 years

Ireland is a tax haven The economy appears much better state than it is. - Inflated national income - Inflated profits - Lower debt/GDP - More tax intake - Exaggerated productivity The electorate cannot be blamed for wondering why things don't feel as good as this #GE2020

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@Aidan_Regan

3 years

I'd love to hear @morningireland finish their traffic announcements in Dublin with "there's no traffic jams anywhere for those who cycle. If you want to arrive on time, get on your bike".

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@Aidan_Regan

4 years

Ireland spends 0.1 percent of GNI on early childhood education. Ireland commits a mere 400 million to providing childcare (in Denmark it is 3.7 billion) Ireland is far behind the rest of Western Europe when it comes to family-friendly employment policies #ActiveSocialPolicies

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@Aidan_Regan

3 years

Daily news update from @IrishTimes Three-beds from €1.325m I mean, seriously, would ye f**k off.

Ranelagh’s brand new street with three-beds from €1.325m

Annesley Gardens is a new street of 20 three- and four-bed homes near popular Dunville Avenue

www.irishtimes.com

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@Aidan_Regan

6 months

Murdering people at a rave. - Grotesque, barbaric and inhumane. Dropping a bomb on a refugee camp. - Grotesque, barbaric and inhumane.

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@Aidan_Regan

3 years

Ireland should increase its corporate tax rate. Is it really that difficult to say?

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@Aidan_Regan

2 years

We need peace in Ukraine 🇺🇦 That will require a negotiated peace settlement. This reality ought not be controversial.

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@Aidan_Regan

3 years

Amsterdam 🇳🇱 Dublin 🇮🇪 I wonder which city will adapt best to the future of urban living and the climate emergency?

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@Aidan_Regan

3 years

Sometimes the solution is simple. - 50% of all car trips are less than 5km. - 33% are less than 3km. - Stop using the car. - Stop advertising the car. - Stop building our cities/infrastructure for the car. Walk. Cycle. Move. It's cheap, efficient, and healthy. #COP26

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Electrification of the world's car fleet will not reduce our emissions fast enough. That's why we will be at #COP26 . Because the world needs more cycling. Now! Below my piece in today's Financial Times. #COP26cycling .

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Two truths that dare not speak their name. 1. Most urban car journeys are unnecessary. 2. The best way to save money is drive less. There's no 50 page appendix to this tweet explaining who this does not apply to - construction workers etc.

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@Aidan_Regan

4 years

The mantra of “more supply” is painfully simplistic. Throw up housing estates where you need to jump in the car and commute for 2 hours to get to work? What’s needed is a Department of Infrastructure and Urban Planning - that integrates housing and public transport. #rtept

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@Aidan_Regan

2 years

They did say Brexit would create plenty of jobs.

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1/3) Wow. Just wow. According to @CSOIreland , Ireland's population has increased by 14.5% since 2013. That's 667,000 people. That's not normal. The total population is now 5.3 million. Irish state capacity has not kept apace with this massive surge in population

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@Aidan_Regan

3 years

I don't care if your SUV or land rover is run on potato skins. If you're using it to drive in the city, or to pick up a bag of groceries from Avoca, it should be taxed out of existence.

Diarmaid Ferriter: Can celebrity SUV virtue waving please cease?

I roll my eyes when I look at their cost and the notion that they represent sustainability

www.irishtimes.com

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Aidan Regan

@Aidan_Regan

6 years

Never underestimate the extent to which the state will exercise it's power to defend the rights of private property over the social rights of it's citizens. This was the response to housing activists who occupied an empty building #HousingCrisis

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If you cannot see both of these situations as sickening, you've lost your humanity: 1. Killing innocent people at a music festival in Israel. 2. Killing innocent people and calling for a complete siege of impoverished people in the Gaza strip.

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2 years

Just cycled through Phibsboro village. I know it's easy to beat up on Dublin. But what an absolute mess of a village. - Back-to-back traffic across 4 lanes. - No space for cyclists. - Pedestrians squeezed onto broken paths. We can and must do better than this.

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@Aidan_Regan

1 year

Irish banks should be banned from increasing mortgage interest rates unless they also pass on the same interest rate increases to customer savings. @AskAIB

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@Aidan_Regan

2 years

There'a absolutely no normative justification for @Education_Ire to keep giving public money to private fee-paying schools. It should be ended. @NewstalkFM

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Aidan Regan

@Aidan_Regan

6 months

Delighted to announce I've been awarded an @ERC_Research Consolidator Grant. The project is titled "Democracy Challenged: How Global Corporate Tax Avoidance Fuels the Wealth Inequalities that Undermine Democracy". Abstract below. A short 🧵

European Research Council (ERC)

@ERC_Research

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📢 Results of the 2023 ERC Consolidator Grant competition are out. €627 million for 308 researchers. Who has been offered funding? What topics and questions will they investigate? Where will they conduct their research? 🇪🇺 @HorizonEU #ERCCoG news 👉

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Biked from Cabra to Dalkey via the new @dlrcc cycleway. Wow. It’s amazing. I felt like I was holidaying in a different country. @dlrcc is a completely different city to @DubCityCouncil I suspect this divide reflects the polarisation of Dublin politics and voting behaviour.

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@Aidan_Regan

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For every day that passes that the state allows the Catholic church act as the patron of our public primary schooling system, and allows “faith formation” to be part of the curriculum, is a continuation of the dark shadow from Ireland’s theocratic past. #motherandbabyhomes

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@Aidan_Regan

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Not 1 Not 2 Not 3 But 4 lanes of one-way traffic. NO bike lane. - Right in the middle of the city centre. - Right beside a university campus. De-carbonisation? Net zero? 15 min city? Reduce car dependence. Seriously, get fuckin’ real. @DubCityCouncil @greenpartydubC

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@Aidan_Regan

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The more I learn about housing systems in other countries, the more I understand just how spectacularly inefficient Irish housing policies have been for decades. Affordability will never happen until the stock of public housing is massively increased. It's that simple.

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Aidan Regan

@Aidan_Regan

4 years

Not sure if the @IRLDeptFinance realise that the Court's ruling just made explicitly clear that the 0.005% Apple tax rate was not selective advantage. It was the law. Think about that. What would you call a country that legally charges 0.005% tax on a global multinational?

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Aidan Regan

@Aidan_Regan

3 years

It should be illegal for global investment funds to purchase a complete housing development. If it is legal, it should be taxed out of existence. In Ireland, not only is it legal, it is actively incentivised by the corporate-capital tax regime. #MullenPark #RoundHill 👇

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Aidan Regan

@Aidan_Regan

6 years

Irish public opinion is clearly pro-choice. The next policy challenge is to translate this into education policy. @FineGael must legislate to force the catholic church to divest from taxpayer funded public schools. It' time to secularise education #RepealedThe8th #Referendum2018

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Aidan Regan

@Aidan_Regan

2 years

Privately financed primary schools should absolutely not have access to state-subsidised free books. The fact this is even up for debate is bonkers.

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Aidan Regan

@Aidan_Regan

4 years

The public sector is not a cost to society and taxpayers. - It is a very valuable investment. Health, education, research, transport, housing, civic administration, local government, science, parks, lakes, forests - It is our public infrastructure

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