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To be clear @sinnfeinireland. You're justifying a proposed new registration process for EU citizens by saying that "this is common in most EU countries" without stating that most EU countries mandate their own citizens to register as well?

@ALeaument Merci, Antoine. Seule la haine peut arrêter la logique de cet argument.

Madame Le Pen, la menace pour la République, c'est vous. 🇫🇷 La Nouvelle France, c'est nous !

@jeremyfgalway @RSAIreland And we accept road deaths as a fact of life when we shouldn’t.

Thanks @galwaybayfmnews lovely to hear from all the future urban planners. Perspective-shifting art installation in Salthill Park offers glimpse of future | GalwayBayFM galwaybayfm.ie/galway-bay-fm-…

@AntonyRoland @GalwayCityCo And not just ‘plans’ but real, on-the-ground changes!

@GalwayCityCo Great! More of this!

Galway City Council welcomes the positive decisions of An Bord Pleanála to grant consent for the BusConnects Galway: Cross-City Link (University Road to Dublin Road) project. This project represents a significant milestone in the development of the city.

What‘s surprising about the ‘abuse in schools’ scandal is that we tolerate the abusing institution to continue to monopolise the delivery of our school syllabi and to dominate the education of our teachers. A bishop oversees Mary Immaculate College in Limerick — says it all.

@frankmcdonald60 @vonderleyen Frank — that’s statement of yours really saddened me. If Europe cannot count on the likes of you — the future ain’t bright anymore.

Interesting perspective on the Olympics. Wish I could share it, but I don’t feel like a European anymore. Not since @vonderleyen betrayed us all by giving Israel carte blanche for the genocide it has now been perpetrating in Gaza for more than nine months …

@jeremyfgalway @BrendanM56 @GalwayCycling @GalwayCityCo @GalwayChamber Karlsruhe in Germany has such a system where trams ‘glide’ onto the main regional spur of the railway system and back again. Allows for a massive hinterland to be part of the urban public transportation network, effectively obliterating the difference between urban and regional.

What have you to say @GalwayCityCo and @GalwayChamber ?

@jeremyfgalway @FHmediastuff @GalwayCycling @GalwayCityCo “Wedding cake monstrosity”: nice one - and so fitting. Don’t think the car park is closed- just not used. Any why would anyone pay if there’s a big free above-ground parking lot just opposite.

@GalwayCycling @FHmediastuff @GalwayCityCo Agreed. But look closely and you’ll see that Pontevedra has a major ring road-like structure allowing cars to avoid the city if their drivers wish to. Just saying, not comparing!

Genuine question: is it ethically tenable to continue to be present on a platform that actively constructs a hate-filled, fact-depleted public sphere? I know, we all had this discussion before -- but why share a platform with the likes of Yaxley-Lennon? Or Bannon? Or Musk?

Does this explain the difference in how policies are designed to be implemented in 🇩🇰 while we in 🇮🇪 barely touch the surface of the policy/implementation nexus? In 🇩🇰, people are brought on board from the go, in 🇮🇪 they are, at best, an afterthought.

Thinking about the difference between 🇮🇪 and 🇩🇰. Similar size, the one colonised, the other colonising. The former a relatively young nation state, the other a mature one. Both in the EU. (1/2)

And note the use of flexible infrastructure to support the use of this space. It’s as if users are trusted, rather than feared (and thus in need of coercive actions).

Public space inside a public building. Another aspect of what Kopenhagen gets right — besides its fabulous cycling infrastructure.

Watched Beckett’s Endgame tonight and was struck by a prescient passage I hadn’t noticed before — written in 1957 and encapsulating our current malaise rather well. Ah, and thanks to @DruidTheatre for making it happen.

@BrendanM56 @BrentToderian @Khayat_Fouad @GalwayChamber @GalwayCityCo Because we tolerate risk-adversity, lack political leadership, have an underdeveloped public transportation "system", fetishise home ownership, can't be arsed to connect siloesque planning engagements, treat nature as an afterthought, and relish complaining... afterwards.

@BrentToderian @Khayat_Fouad An example for @GalwayChamber and @GalwayCityCo to aspire to. If Paris can do it, why can't Galway?

Remember, Paris wasn’t “always this way.” It wasn’t even this way in late 2019 when I was last there. Just a few years ago, #Paris was choking in car traffic much more. This is new. This is leadership. Cities are a result of choices. HT @Khayat_Fouad

@ALeaument Democracy also means not insisting that a small majority build from a coming together of different traditions translates into the willingness to work together and to compromise.

Macron doit respecter la démocratie : il doit se soumettre ou se démettre. La démocratie, c'est aussi savoir perdre. Macron a perdu. Soit il accepte le résultat des urnes et il nomme un Premier ministre du #NFP, soit il doit partir

@kleyden7 I completely agree, Kevin. It's become a much better campus in recent years. And the blocking of cars from the underpass depicted contributes majorly towards that.

Many welcome changes to the campus over the last year! Well done!