Architectural Technologist, Architectural Enthusiast, BIM-Revit Technician & 3D Designer Cyclist, Runner, Eco worrior (at least in my head) In that order
Meath, Ireland
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Anthony Armstrong retweeted
Wouldn’t it be great if the vacant James Weir Home for Nurses on Cork Street, in the Dublin Liberties, were converted into accommodation for key workers, honouring James Weir’s original philanthropic intentions? It has lain vacant for five years, since a 24-hour, nurse-staffed residential unit for homeless men closed in 2021. This protected structure was built in 1903 and funded by Scottish-born merchant James Weir to accommodate up to fifty nurses working at the nearby Cork Street Fever Hospital.
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Below is a webpage I built to highlight dereliction in Ireland, propose solutions, and showcase heritage buildings and structures at risk. The page includes quick facts, a summary, history and ownership, a dated photographic decline log, planning/enforcement history, vacancy/dereliction signals, reuse potential, recommended next actions, open questions, and sources.
ℹ️Research Page:
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#Dublin #Ireland #Heritage #HeritageAtRisk #HousingCrisis #DerelictIreland
Anthony Armstrong retweeted
Here is Ireland. The lights that you see are not bonfires. Each and every light is a GAA pitch. Now that’s what I call culture.
Anthony Armstrong retweeted
Ireland has not built a society, it has built a tax jurisdiction.
Ireland’s population is told it has never been richer, yet it has never felt poorer ✍️Sinéad O'Sullivan
@SineadOS1
Ireland has failed to answer this question of what to use its wealth for, as it seems we did not know the question existed. For over a decade, as the corporate tax take rose relentlessly to reach €35 billion – not far off half of it accounted for by three big US companies – the country has behaved as though this bounty was a durable feature of the economy rather than short-term luck.
The Irish surplus is the largest in the EU per capita, yet our infrastructure index is below Poland’s
The 35,000 graduates who left last year because they could not afford to live here are not evidence of the system working. They are proof of the opposite. (When I pointed this out to Varadkar, his response was: “You’d fail my class.”
Before members of the political class lecture the country on economics, they might consult the textbook – specifically the well-known chapter on how small states handed unearned windfalls squandered every one of them. Ireland has not built a society, it has built a tax jurisdiction
#FFG #HowIrelandWorks #Society #IrelandisBroken
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Anthony Armstrong retweeted
This 👇 ALL of this 👇
The protests in Ireland are not about just fuel! They are about the distance between Ireland on this graph and every other modern and developed economy. Ireland is second wealthiest but gets waaaaay less than any other country for that wealth. By a golden mile.
That visual gap in this graph? That’s what people are protesting. It’s a lack of infrastructure and the everyday enshittification of services, the economy, and the additional difficulty of trying to live, relative to peers in any other country. It also highlights why people don’t get uniformly listened to! - because there is no government architecture to engage meaningfully across this huge gap.
That gap is a three hour drive to work in traffic, a 14 month wait for an MRI, buses that don’t arrive, trains that don’t exist, schools that have no places for your kids, houses that are unaffordable, pubs that close before midnight, €12 sandwiches, expensive fuel.
People feel this gap, even if they can’t explain it precisely. And that builds into resentment, and ultimately protest. Fuel just happened to be the next thing that could be pointed to, today.
Anthony Armstrong retweeted
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Fuel Protest spokesman responds to over 300 Gardai taking O’Connell Street by force around 3 AM and shutting off all street access.
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BREAKING: CHINA DESTROYS TRUMP
Trump: We need $2 billion a day to reopen the Strait of Hormuz
China's FM Senator: But the Strait of Hormuz was already open before the war? The root cause of this disruption is your illegal military operations against Iran.
You have created a Global Crisis OUT OF NOTHING”
Anthony Armstrong retweeted
In total, 130,469 houses and 32,964 apartments (including bed-sits and excluding holiday homes) were vacant on the night of the census in 2022, while 66,956 holiday homes were counted as vacant. Crazy that this is tolerated in the middle of a housing crisis, with yet another record of over 17,300 people in emergency accommodation last month, including 5,457 children. This is not normal and cannot be accepted. We need urgent action to prevent evictions and expand housing supply, and we can start by utilising these vacant houses. After all, it was called a 'national emergency' by Leo Varadkar back in 2018 when the homeless figure was 10,000.
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis #Ireland
Anthony Armstrong retweeted
Hi
There are a lot of deepfakes going around about me. These are scams. Please don't be hood winked into parting with cash. Also as they are targeting older people who are not as savvy, can you tell your mother, granny, grandad etc if they ask you, that these are hoaxes.
Thanks
