Lorcan Nyhan
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How much of a restriction is that on people and people's ability to travel for other things that they might need to travel for afterwards?
And then who makes that decision?
Should it be up to a state to make that decision?
Or should the airlines themselves be able to come together automatically?
I don't know where I fall on that question, but it is definitely a specific question where, you know, the state can take your driving licence, but in this sense, is it the airlines who can take your capacity to fly away from you?
And it's an interesting question.
I probably would think a register, as long as it was tightly controlled and regulated, might not be the worst idea.
And there was a reason why one of Donald Trump's big policies in the last election was the no tax on tips policy for that exact reason that it was seen as additional income and it was a big vote getter for him.
So there is a proposal for a massive giant digital statue.
It's on George's Quay.
People will remember that there was a big controversy about the whitewater rafting facility that was going to come into Dublin.
The proposal is to go there.
It's a massive giant statue where you can impose your face on it so that the statue looming over Dublin and the size of the Liberty Hall...
will be your face.
So we get to see every stag that ever comes to Dublin looming over us all.
The example they use is James Joyce, which is, imagine, definitely what people will pick when it comes into a picture of James Joyce.
It's the brainchild of an entrepreneur who's involved in the Dublin Wax Museum and was involved in Temple Bar.
and he's describing it as an attempt to give back to Dublin because it's a wasted space.
It is effectively something that would be massively expensive, would be purely for tourists, and I think is an incredibly bad idea.
We don't need something in a key space in Dublin that could be used as a community facility and then also be good for tourism and economy.