‘Private wealth and public squalor’. The summary by great North American economic commentator J.K. Galbraith applies perfectly to 21st century Ireland. Of course the saying suggests something systematic (part of the problem certainly) when it’s often a simple matter of mass ignorance by the people who’s city it is. As long as sufficient people don’t love where they live, work and socialise nothing will change.
What about the defecation?
There needs to be far tougher laws on dereliction this country. Its not just Dublin that suffers from this. It is making our cities look almost third world in places. There is a hotel in Waterford that is in view of the entire city that has been left derelict for god knows how long. Its so so bad.
How’s the slow decline going for yei all ?
The footpath on O’Connell Street is quite literally sticky
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‘Private wealth and public squalor’. The summary by great North American economic commentator J.K. Galbraith applies perfectly to 21st century Ireland. Of course the saying suggests something systematic (part of the problem certainly) when it’s often a simple matter of mass ignorance by the people who’s city it is. As long as sufficient people don’t love where they live, work and socialise nothing will change.
What about the defecation?
There needs to be far tougher laws on dereliction this country. Its not just Dublin that suffers from this. It is making our cities look almost third world in places. There is a hotel in Waterford that is in view of the entire city that has been left derelict for god knows how long. Its so so bad.
How’s the slow decline going for yei all ?
The footpath on O’Connell Street is quite literally sticky
Alliteration