Emmet Kirwan
Playwright & Actor
Reps. Writing: Curtis Brown. Acting: United UK & Lisa Richards IRL
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- Reposted by Emmet Kirwanlittle-flying-robots.ghost.io/rejecting-re... We live in an age where the Internet and LLMs are encouraging ever more people to reject reality entirely. Here's my thoughts on why this is happening, and why the Terminally Online turn amongst the powerful is so dangerous.
- Reposted by Emmet Kirwan“5 year legal odyssey came to end in High Court with a couple vindicated in full in their battle over mobile phone mast In sticking to their guns, they did the State & fellow citizens an enormous service-one likely not appreciated” @ciananbrennan.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
- Reposted by Emmet KirwanThe real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
- Reposted by Emmet Kirwan“Apartment Vat cut makes no sense and won’t boost housing supply” “A Vat cut meant to boost apartment construction has instead exposed a circular, ineffective policy that neither lowers costs nor increases supply” @mickcliff.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
- Reposted by Emmet Kirwan16,766 without a home This is f*cking scandalous A result of shameful government policy with empty homes everywhere Me & @judesherry.bsky.social updated the numbers on our dereliction billboard yesterday with music by Meryl Streek Lower John St, Cork City #DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis #SpeirGorm
- Reposted by Emmet Kirwan“I do fear that if attempts are made to cut back on rights of participation and to cut back on the right of access to the courts, people will still find a way and it might well be a way that’s going to be a lot more difficult to control.” - Prof Áine Ryall #Law www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Emmet Kirwanbuying a farm that straddles the cavan-fermanagh county border to run contreband intermezzos into the occupied 6
- Reposted by Emmet KirwanSo this is a thing you'll see a lot about immigration. The process is incredibly slow, the systems are overworked. If you have applied you will overstay before your decision is made. The system is designed such that you will be breaking the law, by their own design. This is arguably on purpose.
- Reposted by Emmet KirwanSweating at Heathrow border control because I’ve swallowed 15 copies of uncut Intermezzo
- Reposted by Emmet Kirwani know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
- Reposted by Emmet KirwanDespite a 16% jump in nitrates levels in Irish rivers in the last year alone, it's looking like the derogation (special dispensation to pollute more) will *still* be extended by another 3 years. Help farmers financially if needs be, but killing our rivers is just WRONG. share.google/EpaRcLKnsnPZ...
- Reposted by Emmet Kirwan🏗️ Ireland’s fire safety standards for apartments we need to talk about de-regulation & safety of future apartment residents (🧵 below was originally posted on 29 Feb 2020 )
- Reposted by Emmet KirwanWake up call and reality check for all concerned with delivery of decent #housing, and positive societal outcomes from #planning Lorcan Sirr talkimg sense, stats and evidence, incl on scapegoating #JR #JudicialReview www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
- Reposted by Emmet KirwanToday's transport plan delivers a stark message to commuters. Expect more years stuck in traffic with no viable public transport alternatives. Read our response here 👇 greenparty.ie/news/act-nat... @feljin.ie @rodericogorman.bsky.social
- Reposted by Emmet KirwanFour months after it was promised, we finally have the government's transport investment plan between now and 2030. It's bad. Roads are in, public transport is out. A lot of public transport projects being put on the long-finger to make funding available for new roads.
- Reposted by Emmet KirwanBREAKING: RealPage is suing New York, challenging a new state law that bans landlords from using algorithms to set rents. RealPage claims that its software, which landlords have used to collude on rents, is protected by the First Amendment.
- Reposted by Emmet KirwanGoogle at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
- Reposted by Emmet KirwanFirst Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.
- So they lobbied the government intensely, got what they wanted and now they’re happy. Imagine the reverse of this headline ‘renters happy with new rent reforms’ that would and will never happen as long as we have these agents of capital reping for the lads. www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
- Reposted by Emmet KirwanExcellent piece by Sadhbh o'Neill about the car-centric approach to transport. I have absolutely no doubt that virtually none of our elected reps rely on public transport to go about their daily lives. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
- This article offers zero evidence that landlords are going to “stampede” out of the rental market, other than an estate agent saying, “trust me, bro.” www.limerickleader.ie/news/nationa...
- Reposted by Emmet KirwanIn Ireland, every season is Landlord Migration season
- Reposted by Emmet KirwanWhen Dunnes staff refused to handle S African goods they were denounced by politicians from FF/FG, as well as "business leaders". The same groups blocking the OTB today. They were spat on, beaten by Gardaí and followed by Special Branch. It took 3 years to shame the govt. into acting. Reluctantly.
- Reposted by Emmet Kirwan"philosophical financial framework" is a very kind way of describing neoliberalism there from Mícheál. #IrishPol
- Kaspar Aiden Cantwell Strattra (23) – replied after charge and caution at Ennis Garda station: “The use of Shannon Airport by the US military breaks Irish neutrality. The US is a belligerent power complicit in the genocide of Palestinians.” www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
- Reposted by Emmet KirwanExcellent piece by my colleague, Professor Ciara Smyth: The real migration crisis is not the one you’ve been hearing about – The Irish Times www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
- Reposted by Emmet KirwanAnother 'Landlords leaving the market' story. First, has this not consistently been proven to be completely false? Second, if true, why would this be bad? Third, if Landlords are 'leaving the market' in droves because new rules mean their tenants have a more secure lease, well, ok then. Off you pop.
- Breakneck by Dan Wang is worth a read. McWilliams takes the wrong lessons from it & passes it off as his own homework. In short China is run by engineers, that see all problems including humans as engineering problems, the book warns against this, not for it. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
- It delves into the horrendous application of the one child policy again dreamt up by engineers. And also infrastructure projects displacing millions. With judicial review being the scapegoat for Gov inefficiency it seems the establishment wants Chinese style Marxist Leninist central planing powers
- Reposted by Emmet KirwanThe Irish Times published and lauded John Collison's op-ed, but did they fact-check it? Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly. If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.
- I’ve written something on John Collison’s Op-Ed and environmental democracy Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
- Reposted by Emmet Kirwan'In his exit interview this week, he told Morning Ireland: “The pinnacle of my ambition was to be the Minister for Finance.” Which, we can all admit, is a funny thing to say after you’ve just quit that job to move to what is very objectively a cooler job in every possible way.' This week's column.
- Reposted by Emmet KirwanDr Orla Kelleher pushes back against the narrative that judicial reviews are to blame for the housing crisis.
- Reposted by Emmet KirwanI’ve written something on John Collison’s Op-Ed and environmental democracy Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
- Reposted by Emmet Kirwan“Eoin Dorgan, asst sec at Dept of Public Expenditure Dorgan said Ireland needs to apply Tony Blair’s motto “tough on crime, tough on causes of crime” to the ongoing issue around legal objections” ..citizens ensuring that decisions are lawful are not criminals www.businesspost.ie/politics/sen...
- Reposted by Emmet Kirwan‘The paper (which you can find here: br.ti.org/pdfs/BuildBaby…) looked mostly at US data and finds that if houses had kept the same prices as in 1990, 13 million more babies would have been born since then’.
- Reposted by Emmet Kirwan“If the Government were confident in its planning decisions, it would welcome judicial scrutiny rather than fear it.” #Oversight #Accountability #JudicialReview
- Reposted by Emmet KirwanBtw I saw it linked to from this similar utter nonsense www.forbes.com/sites/jasons...
- Reposted by Emmet KirwanI laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics. COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs? ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons. conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
- Reposted by Emmet Kirwan#Planning “new report identifies real obstacles to infrastructure delivery as conflicting policy targets, lack of policy clarity & tardiness in policy delivery, not judicial review.. just 5.3% of decisions challenged; findings expose the Government’s scapegoating” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...
- Reposted by Emmet KirwanThe excellent @shamimmalekmian.bsky.social @dublininquirer.com whose earlier piece triggered our investigation has also written about this www.dublininquirer.com/was-the-depa...
- The article should clarify that Higgins is also an FG member. I’ve seen this proposal raised twice this week, and it effectively shifts responsibility for addressing the housing crisis away from the Government. Conversely it’s the reasoning FF/FG use for not implementing a ‘living’ wage.
- He also says ditching yearly targets is prudent. Yeah because if they miss the yearly targets as they have done every year, they can say we’ll catch up by 2030. Like the promise to do your homework on Sunday night.
- Reposted by Emmet Kirwan“property prices are driven by income & interest rates. As these two variables change, so does affordability, which determines how much buyers can (and will) pay. That, in turn, drives prices” -Dr Cameron Murray @cameronmurray.bsky.social www.fresheconomicthinking.com/p/why-home-p...
- Reposted by Emmet KirwanIf you are feeling down and like a bit of a failure, remember that the guy who failed children with scoliosis and mishandled the children’s hospital to the tune of €bn’s is now the min for finance. You got this!
- Reposted by Emmet KirwanI wrote an article for the Irish Times outlining how the rule of FF/FG can finally be ended. We need to come together on the basis of demanding the right to a home, action on the cost of living crisis, disability justice, a NHS, just climate action and defence of our neutrality.
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- Reposted by Emmet Kirwan“route to affordable housing globally isn’t through lower nominal prices, it’s higher incomes” “where incomes catch up with prices, you should see home-ownership notch higher” ..another economist ignoring reality that higher wages drive up higher property prices www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...
- Reposted by Emmet KirwanThis week, for the first time in seven and a half years of writing a weekly parenting column, I admit why I so rarely use it to give out advice. On experts, common sense, and being bad enough at parenting that I'd never tell anyone what to do. observer.co.uk/news/columni...
- Reposted by Emmet Kirwan'“This is the first land rematriation by Catholic sisters in the history of the country,” Koteles said. “They're setting a precedent for the largest private landowner in the world—the Catholic Church—and that's a huge invitation to healing...”' #ShareGoodNewsToo
- Again another housing minister talking about these problems as they’re not the one who can fix them. They’ve done nothing about dereliction because they are ideologically aversion of brining punitive action against property owners. They could go on a CPO blitz but they won’t.
- Reposted by Emmet Kirwanwe should all remember Paschal Donohoe as a man whose final act in public office was to give over half a billion in subsidies to an already thriving hospitality industry for no reason whatsoever
- Reposted by Emmet KirwanCorrect. So what is he waiting for? Could someone please remind this man that he is, in fact, the Minister?
- Reposted by Emmet KirwanI guess my fondest memory of Paschal is when he got RTE to apologise for drawing a comparison between a current FG "tax on children's shoes" dilemma, and a past FG "tax on children's shoes" dilemma
- Reposted by Emmet KirwanWe urgently need Compulsory Rental Orders so no habitable home lies empty in order to keep rents high, espically new build apartment blocks Leaving these homes empty just goes to show that the profit margins must be huge to go without any income #spéirgorm #VacantIreland #DerelictIreland
- Reposted by Emmet KirwanHousing plan fails miserably Bad policy decisions, no details, no timeframes Not war its business as usual Stop gaslighting 5,238 children & all those who need a home Minister James Browne Everyone should have a home in #DerelictIreland @judesherry.bsky.social & my latest @irishexaminer.bsky.social
- The lesson FG have learned from Mandai’s election is to copy his campaign video style, not say, the leftist polices that got him elected, like rent freezes. Young people: We want a fair rent. & affordable homes! FG: unaffordable shoe box apartments? Got it! www.instagram.com/reel/DRAKzcy...
- Reposted by Emmet KirwanAntisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
- Reposted by Emmet KirwanErs yer man @crispbap.bsky.social immortalised in print (At @apope.bsky.social's new book launch in Pigment Space tonight 8-10pm)
- Reposted by Emmet KirwanIt would be one thing having a "debate" on immigration if people meant they wanted a "debate" based on facts. But what most people seem to mean when they say they want a debate is that is they want us to pretend a bunch of entirely made up bullshit is true.
