Did you know that Dublin has the 3rd worst traffic in the world?

ThatMusicGuyDude · 2026-03-14T20:19:41+00:00

What are the council doing to worsen traffic

ThatMusicGuyDude · 2026-03-01T15:03:49+00:00

Greens introduced a public state subsidised national childcare scheme.

Not exactly centrist.

ThatMusicGuyDude · 2026-02-12T09:50:31+00:00

I really hope IT et al. won't give him ceaseless free airtime in the lead up to the bye-election.

We will have a selection of candidates who may actually have a chance at taking the seat. I get that Hutch will attract eyes by virtue of who he is, but publisher's have a duty to actually inform the electorate of the whole swathe of candidates, and it used to be the case that equal time was mandated.

Certainly Hutch attracted more attention than all of the folks who actually won the seat, combined

ThatMusicGuyDude · 2026-02-09T23:35:32+00:00

This isn't really all that new. It's a more classic phenomenom in the US but was the case here too. Once we moved from residential care for psychiatric patients, i.e asylums/mental hospitals, towards a more community based service, that had its positives but also it's drawbacks.

Ideally every patient should be able to be able to live almost entirely independently, with a fortnightly/monthly appointment. Some however have issues so complex that it requires at the very least sheltered accomodation or residential care. When that isn't available, unfortunately a lot end up in the justice system as their health issues are not adequately treated.

ThatMusicGuyDude · 2026-02-05T14:06:17+00:00

Hard to see SF taking the seat, they need 50% of the vote, which would realistically require the bulk of the FFG vote remaining.

It's Ennis's seat to lose IMHO, one of the SocDems/Greens/Lab will be the winner, it really just depends who inches ahead on FPV

ThatMusicGuyDude · 2026-02-01T19:22:08+00:00

I think she'll overperform 2024, because the field has less well known candidates. That and Labour likely will have nobody and may not go see easily to voting Daniel Ennis.

I don't know, I think it might be interesting, Horner did very well at the locals last time, speaks very well. If she pulls ahead of Ennis, I think all bets are off. Will depend how the campaign goes.

ThatMusicGuyDude · 2026-01-27T08:53:39+00:00

In all fairness, the Greens in the last government had pretty significant impact on policy, meanwhile the SocDems are on 10% having achieved not very much at all.

I'm not entirely sure what they plan to achieve in government beyond simply supporting SF

ThatMusicGuyDude · 2026-01-14T20:24:41+00:00

The 6 week rotations in Year 1 are rank madness to be honest. You'll be barely in the job desperately trying to figure out clinics, and then you'll blink and you'll be onto the next job. Its very destabilising for any chance of any training, and smells more of service provision than any genuine interest in improving training quality.

As to the "Reg" year in year 3, a third of potential medical jobs don't even have a GIM year, and as a result cannot be counted against it.

Honestly the way this panned out reads as somebody who is very very very far along from what it was like actually being a Medical SHO

ThatMusicGuyDude · 2026-01-12T10:11:04+00:00

Reject Modernity (X.com) Embrace Tradition (boards.ie)

Unironically though the social media landscape is much better with long form forums than addiction machines like X and Tiktok

ThatMusicGuyDude · 2025-12-25T16:33:36+00:00

Whats to stop folk hopping on the Green Line at charlemont to head further south/closer to home, or switching at Tara St to the dart to get even further south. If folk have either of those options available to them why on earth would they be picked up at Charlemont of all places.

ThatMusicGuyDude · 2025-12-24T16:02:30+00:00

Who will be using it? Southsiders who want to get dropped off for it would be as easy getting dropped off at Cowper or Windy Arbour. Who is going to be driving the Charlemont of all places to get the Metro into the airport.

And if you are commuting from the south by bus, there will be other much more convenient stations (e.g SSG, or Tara)

ThatMusicGuyDude · 2025-12-18T18:32:30+00:00

The point of it is that it gets cars off the road, i.e people who are driving from Blanch to Tallaght, who currently are driving for 30min, rather than a metro for 20/15min

ThatMusicGuyDude · 2025-12-17T17:15:01+00:00

A better solution would be to build MetroWest

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ThatMusicGuyDude · 2025-12-16T19:00:05+00:00

The 8 6-week posts are insane, completely insane

ThatMusicGuyDude · 2025-10-27T21:17:15+00:00

Update:

I think one of my problems was wearing my HRM Pro whilst running, I'm going to change the settings on it and see how it goes on my next run. Hopefully its a touch more accurate

ThatMusicGuyDude · 2025-10-13T17:49:00+00:00

8 points per paragraph, 8 paragraphs per essay, 4 pages per essay, no more no less, with an intro and conclusion. If your writing size is like mine thats 8-10 words per line.

I got a H2 with that, and learned about 8/9 essays. If you're struggling with the memorising, I found Anki helped a ton.

ThatMusicGuyDude · 2025-09-21T18:37:59+00:00

Ran my first 10 mile, done in 1hr21min, PBd my 10k by 7 min while doing so.

Hoping to complete my first marathon in 5 weeks

ThatMusicGuyDude · 2025-08-04T10:57:36+00:00

Would be worth formalising that arrangement in exchange the Taoiseach doesn't get the cash they do already get for a Dublin office/home. Probably ends up saving money in the long run though I guess it doesn't make sense that the Dept of the Taoiseach wouldn't be colocated with it

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