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Yes, I would; a battery would increase self-consumption by storing daytime surplus, adding €300–€600 in yearly bill savings versus low export rates and high import rates. Plus, you charge the battery at night using cheaper night rates, resulting in more savings.
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The original Victorian Phibsborough Post Office was located at 336 North Circular Road. Designed by the Board of Public Works surveyor and architect J. Howard Pentland, it was built between 1892 and 1893, before it was unceremoniously demolished in 1974 to make way for the current post office.
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You can learn a lot from history, Paul. In my opinion, the Irish players shouldn't play and are being used as pawns by the FAI and the Government, just like in the 1930s. Back in 1939 the Irish players were told to give the Nazi salute in Bremen when they played Germany plus did you know that de Valera visited the German envoy in Dublin on May 2, 1945, to offer official condolences on the death of Adolf Hitler?
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Amazing if every 10k town had such visibility and then overlay infrastructure and housing for next 20 years, like Finland does, rather than cloak & dagger myopic planning in Ireland.
I had a great time meeting so many people on Saturday at the Festival of Ideas in Drogheda, where I presented some of my work on dereliction and vacancy as part of the heritage and regeneration talks. Drogheda is a vibrant town with loads of hidden historical gems, and some areas have so much potential, waiting to be unlocked after years of dereliction.
#Drogheda #FestivalOfIdeas #DerelictIreland
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Your presence and incredible detail were very much welcome. Part of the theme of the #FestivalofIdeas was the lack of data and evidence. You have shown what is possible. If an ordinary citizen can compile such data, the question needs to be asked...what is the government doing?
I had a great time meeting so many people on Saturday at the Festival of Ideas in Drogheda, where I presented some of my work on dereliction and vacancy as part of the heritage and regeneration talks. Drogheda is a vibrant town with loads of hidden historical gems, and some areas have so much potential, waiting to be unlocked after years of dereliction.
#Drogheda #FestivalOfIdeas #DerelictIreland
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To see this in real life and hear the views of the creator @RobCross247 will be giving a talk on Saturday 19th in the former AIB Bank at 98/99 West St as part of the Festival of Ideas at 2pm admission is free. To secure you place developmentperspectives.ie/w…
Shocking to see the sheer amount of dereliction in Drogheda, Co. Louth. Here’s just one example: what is reputedly the oldest building in Drogheda. A protected structure at 43/44 West Street, this corner building contains fabric dating to about 1675. A carved stone plaque on the east elevation indicates that the structure played a part during the Battle of the Boyne and is therefore hugely significant to Drogheda’s history. The Battle of the Boyne was a major 1690 military engagement in Ireland that secured the English and Irish crowns for King William III over the deposed King James II.
In my visualisation, the red blocks represent derelict and vacant sites around Drogheda, County Louth.
Below is a webpage I built to highlight dereliction in Ireland, propose solutions, and showcase heritage buildings and structures at risk. The page includes quick facts, a summary, history and ownership, a dated photographic decline log, planning/enforcement history, vacancy/dereliction signals, reuse potential, recommended next actions, open questions, and sources.
derelictsites.com/DB-238-No-…
#Drogheda #Louth #Ireland #HousingCrisis #DerelictIreland #BuiltHeritage #HeritageAtRisk
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Ennis leads with 32 derelict properties on the Clare County Council Derelict Site Register. 📊derelictsites.com/dda7f3afaf…
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Frank McDonald obituary: campaigning journalist changed how we think about urban planning. 🙏
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Incredibly atmospheric when viewed in person, it will be a great loss if this is not preserved.
Long-term vacant and in severe disrepair, 34 Main Street is a prominent early Georgian house beside Saint Laurence’s churchyard. The house is associated with J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1863 novel The House by the Churchyard, a Gothic, mystery and historical novel set in eighteenth-century Chapelizod, then a village on the western edge of Dublin.
My visual study analysis shows the extent of dereliction and vacancy around Dublin.
Note: The tall red blocks in the visual represent derelict or vacant buildings and sites.
Below is a webpage I built to highlight dereliction in Ireland, propose solutions, and showcase heritage buildings and structures at risk. The page includes quick facts, a summary, history and ownership, a dated photographic decline log, planning/enforcement history, vacancy/dereliction signals, reuse potential, recommended next actions, open questions, and sources.
ℹ️Research Page: derelictsites.com/4845-34-Ma…
#Dublin #Ireland #HousingCrisis #DerelictIreland #HeritageMonth #BuiltHeritage #HeritageAtRisk
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👀The Land Development Agency and O'Callaghan Properties to deliver over 100 homes in Cork's South Docks: 103 A-rated apartments at Kennedy Quay, Project Tosaigh partnership, first phase of regeneration, and OCP plans to restore and return the Odlums mill building to use.
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What a brilliant addition. Fair play to everyone behind this.
Great to see the Urban Beach at Steamboat Quay in Limerick City open all August as part of Summer in the City: free and open to everyone. Initiatives like this deliver real economic benefit. They draw people into the city centre, and that footfall sustains the shops, cafés, and restaurants around them: the very businesses hit hardest by our commercial vacancy rate. Just as importantly, they make the city more liveable. A riverside that people actually use is safer, more animated, and a place to spend time in rather than pass through. Give people a reason to come into the city, and they will come.🏖️😎⛱️🌊🌞
🔗limerick.ie/discover/whats-o…
#Limerick #Ireland
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Not all of the dereliction, but a major factor in Limerick City Centre’s high commercial vacancy rate, one of the highest in the country, is down to the Crescent Shopping Centre, along with Parkway Shopping Centre, Jetland Shopping Centre, and Childers Road Retail Park, which have hollowed out much of the city-centre retail, alongside online shopping habits.
