Aisling Meehan
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And I suppose that, you know, there's no viable alternative.
And like that just leaves me feeling very despondent, as in short, leaves a lot of other people like there's no...
There's no political opposition or alternative vision for Ireland.
You know, there's kind of floating parties that shift where the EU tell them to shift or where they see votes can be picked up at any given time.
And it's a sad state of affairs that that's where we're at, that there's like there's this obviously very, you know,
People are very fed up with the way things are being carried out and that there's no real... Derek, is it that bad?
100% like, and I think it's just, it's not being represented.
You know, you hear people talking about, you know, for example, the issues about the hotels being taken up by the Ukrainians and the asylum seekers.
And like, it's just been shushed, like, you know, there's, you shouldn't talk about it, but I'm hearing more and more about it.
But like the immigration issues and like, you know, the and it bleeds into the housing issues.
And then I suppose, you know, the longer term picture that in terms of infrastructure, like I do an awful lot of work around dealing with landowners that are given option agreements for solar farms and for,
biomethane plants and you know they generally are very positive towards it and going back I suppose to the you know the intergenerational issue and the succession planning issue and it's a it's it fits neatly into it and I suppose you know farmers not only as farmers there's loads of other uses for the land and and embracing that but there's a massive grid connection issue there and has been there for a long time which kind of you know Lucinda Creighton hit the nail on the head in her
article today and she said the energy crisis should not come as a surprise we've been through it before and she was saying Ireland's enormous vulnerabilities and importer of energy is well recorded this week the government has panicked and announced a further package and then she says it's frustrating that greater investment in energy independence has not been made over the decades in order to avoid these types of cyclical crisis
I have to disagree in that like I think there was overall cooperation of course you're going to you know some people are going to be put out by the protest that's the nature of protest but overall there was cooperation and like and the guards came out and said that there was cooperation by and large from the we'll say the original outside of the particular flashpoints outside of O'Connell Street outside of Whitegate a lot of places I think that was I'm just true that is the case