Antoin O Lachtnain

When I met Vice President Vance just hours before the war began, I formed an impression that both he and the President had a genuine and strong preference to avoid the entanglements of war. So I urge that the ceasefire be extended and talks continue. Success may require everyone to make painful concessions, but this is nothing as compared to the pain of failure and war.

@davidmcw The problem is the geometry really. The wall to wall width of the roads isn’t that wide. It has to be shared with all modes. There aren’t very many north-south traffic lanes for the amount of activity and population so it’s hard to take away traffic lanes..

Should we do this in Dublin, make paths much wider in the city from bus stops, Luas and Dart stations?

@ciaraobrien @IrishTimes reading your article about X. What makes you say X wouldn’t be liable? The law seems very clear. X certainly is criminally liable for this .

@Keyes @lorcansirr One thing he almost points out is that AHB and local authority housing are both based on a tax break th we t isn’t available to private sector: they don’t pay any tax at whatsoever on their income.

Saw this from @lorcansirr and looked forward to learning what landlords really earn. But it’s nowhere in the piece.

@davidmcw @PiarasMurphy Separately there is a much bigger problem. We don’t plan (as you point out.) in a few years we won’t have a usable sites left. We need to plan new cities, with strong public transport links to existing ones.

@davidmcw @PiarasMurphy There are other things we can do. In particular, lower quality, high density short-lifetime housing to cover a gap.

Morning! Here's some clear numbers on housing, immigration and house prices. Put very simply, the rate of immigration will have to be halved at least for there to be any hope of stabilising house prices, given the amount of homes that are being built now. irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/0…

@HSELive Why is the individual health identifier not being used? This was introduced in primary legislation in 2014 for this exact purpose.

You may be asked for your PPSN (personal public services number) the next time you attend a HSE service, to help us further safely and uniquely identify you. If you do not have a PPS number, you will still receive healthcare. Learn more: bit.ly/4nFKsQZ

@GTCost For sure. The driver is opportunities grift rather than heartfelt views on the philosophy of money.

@antoin The fact is: their value in theory is tied to fiat, and in practice to a fiat idea of fiat...

Morons declaring death of the fiat currencies are also cheering stable coins future. You cannot make this shit up!

@AIBIreland Did you read my message? Please pass this up the line to investigate.

@antoin Hi Antoin, you are right to be vigilant. We can confirm this is a fraudulent text. AIB will never send a text asking you to click a link or provide any details. Can you please advise if you have clicked on the link or provided any details? Thanks^RMD

@AIBIreland hello, I just got this. It’s a fairly sophisticated phishing operation. They have a guy with a plausible accent answering the phone number. (I am not an AIB customer, don’t have any app.)

@XEnergyIreland @NuclearIreland This wasn’t the price of electricity generally, this was the non-market price SEM paid for balancing energy. Less than 3 percent of energy traded at this price as far as I can tell?

The astronomical electricity price of 438 €/MWh (44c/kWh) happened yesterday evening between 17.00 and 18.00 (Coincided with low wind, reducing solar, and peak demand) Power was provided by fossil-fueled thermal plant

Irish Electricity on 12-Jun-2025 🔥Fossil Fuels 50% 🌀Wind 26% ⚡Imports 21% 💧Hydro 2.1% ☀️Solar 1.4% 💶Avg Price 167 €/MWh 💶Max Price 438 €/MWh (44c/kWh) 🌍Latest CO2 Emissions 1618 tonnes/hr 🔥Max Fossil Fuels 63% at ~ 17:30 🌀Min Wind 12% at ~ 16:30

Has the PSC reached its expiry date? digitalrights.ie/digital-rights…

Ireland falls further behind on emissions targets making billions in fines more likely irishtimes.com/environment/cl… @KOSullivanIT the energy sector target isn’t really binding though? There’s a carve-out for it in the Act.

@GTCost @beingianbergin Most Ryanair flights (within EU) are subject to ETS and emissions are therefore capped. Carbon is already priced in. The flight going ahead or not going ahead makes no difference to overall carbon emissions.

@beingianbergin A lot of this is very true. There is a real problem that needs addressing. And we need to find multiple alternative ways to addressing it. So some things rise in their power and some wane.

There is a balance to be struck between virtue signaling and informational transparency. The learning process to estabalish that balance is dynamic.

@colmlyon It’s all underwhelming. All I can think is that it could be worse.

A good read on the state of open banking . ft.com/content/2ba2aa…

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@tyillc Maybe Secretary Bessent plans to implement a nationwide VAT?

hmmm ... apparently Secretary Bessent forgets the incentive to manufacture in US or to sign a trade deal with US is to avoid tariffs ... so tariffs aren't a source of much future income ...

@GerrikoM2M @conoro Risk levels are different. Your computer crashes or you lose all your files which is actually not that high impact for most people. The problem is that this system could do a load of stuff to your house or if scale is big enough maybe even the electricity system.

@antoin @conoro Agree. But then again what system really is. It's the age old design dilemma of building in flexibility vs. constraint. Just have to look at our humble PC/laptop and see how difficult things are with Windows / Linux / MAC. All it takes is that one email with a dodgy link & click!

I was only thinking yesterday how much I hate our simplistic barely-digital boiler/heating controller. But it'll still be working in 30 years time when every Nest is in landfill. Something seriously has to be done about this crazy obsolescence in modern home automation.