My follow up essay: Ireland's Failure Premium. To answer the question a lot of people have asked me: So where the hell does all of our money go, if it's not into creating infrastructure and a high living standard?!
[The short answer is: someone's pockets. Just not yours...]
The enshittification of Ireland and the hollowing out of our institutions is the single largest threat to Irish civil society and prosperity.
In this damning piece, I'm going into more detail about the graph I posted yesterday: why it's happening in Ireland, why the way we're thinking about the protests is entirely wrong, and what this means for our collective governance. Link to the article is below!
@kiltullaghfarm No rain here even managed to make some surplus bales, don’t want anymore rain though, grazing a very dynamic situation in this weather 🌧��
God bless the work ☀️ 🌱😎
Land reclamation complete for another year. Increased size of MP adding this bit of ground. Big change from what it was 2 years ago.