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Lorcan Nyhan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
168 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Fewer Marriages, Tipping Culture & Bad Behaviour on Planes

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?

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Fewer Marriages, Tipping Culture & Bad Behaviour on Planes

And then who makes that decision?

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Fewer Marriages, Tipping Culture & Bad Behaviour on Planes

Should it be up to a state to make that decision?

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Fewer Marriages, Tipping Culture & Bad Behaviour on Planes

Or should the airlines themselves be able to come together automatically?

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Fewer Marriages, Tipping Culture & Bad Behaviour on Planes

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?

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Fewer Marriages, Tipping Culture & Bad Behaviour on Planes

And it's an interesting question.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Fewer Marriages, Tipping Culture & Bad Behaviour on Planes

I probably would think a register, as long as it was tightly controlled and regulated, might not be the worst idea.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Fewer Marriages, Tipping Culture & Bad Behaviour on Planes

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.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Fewer Marriages, Tipping Culture & Bad Behaviour on Planes

So there is a proposal for a massive giant digital statue.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Fewer Marriages, Tipping Culture & Bad Behaviour on Planes

It's on George's Quay.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Fewer Marriages, Tipping Culture & Bad Behaviour on Planes

People will remember that there was a big controversy about the whitewater rafting facility that was going to come into Dublin.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Fewer Marriages, Tipping Culture & Bad Behaviour on Planes

The proposal is to go there.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Fewer Marriages, Tipping Culture & Bad Behaviour on Planes

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...

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Fewer Marriages, Tipping Culture & Bad Behaviour on Planes

will be your face.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Fewer Marriages, Tipping Culture & Bad Behaviour on Planes

So we get to see every stag that ever comes to Dublin looming over us all.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Fewer Marriages, Tipping Culture & Bad Behaviour on Planes

The example they use is James Joyce, which is, imagine, definitely what people will pick when it comes into a picture of James Joyce.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Fewer Marriages, Tipping Culture & Bad Behaviour on Planes

It's the brainchild of an entrepreneur who's involved in the Dublin Wax Museum and was involved in Temple Bar.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Fewer Marriages, Tipping Culture & Bad Behaviour on Planes

and he's describing it as an attempt to give back to Dublin because it's a wasted space.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Fewer Marriages, Tipping Culture & Bad Behaviour on Planes

It is effectively something that would be massively expensive, would be purely for tourists, and I think is an incredibly bad idea.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Fewer Marriages, Tipping Culture & Bad Behaviour on Planes

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.