Sinead O'Carroll

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103 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 4 Sep

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Today with David McCullagh · The Gathering · 17 Jul 2026 podcast

Renters are second.

But unfortunately, the problems got so bad for both people who want to own home and renters, and oftentimes they're the same people, that

The solutions can't be perfect and there has to be a whole dollop of common sense in these emergency situations.

But following that, we can't just leave it for, you know, five, 10 years and then realise in five years, oh, there are people in terrible situations because these cabins actually don't have longevity.

Yeah, just to try and crunch the numbers of what exactly we know and we don't know.

So data centres have somehow become kind of an ideal, like a crunch point in ideological warfare between whether you're kind of a Luddite or into tech, whether you're liberal or progressive or conservative.

But one of the things that has emerged is, yes, we know the water consumption is...

quite low if you take in our total consumption in Ireland.

But what we don't know is if you take out the leakages and then you regionalize it, the greater Dublin area is where the hosepipe ban is.

And we don't actually know how much pressure the data centers, which are mostly located

in that region are putting on it.

So kind of the outcome is we know what we know, which doesn't look too bad.

But what we don't know is where the actual questions are coming from.

It would be nice to know.

And I think because they have become such a divisive

It's causing a social cohesion problem because when hosepipe bans have come in in the past, there's always been

huge adherence to them.

Like, you know, there's been no fines given.

There's very little snitching between neighbours.

Like Ishka Herndon said, people always adhere to them.

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