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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 3d

I'm going through the government reports for the past century and the introduction of the school medical service is one of the most interesting things. The public health problems were jaw-dropping, even after years of operation. Here's the results from the inspections in Dublin, 1936-7

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 4d

This particular cold dish deserves a Michelin star.

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Couple were expecting baby when fighting to get overpaid rent back from Jim Gavin

Jim Gavin withdrew from the presidential race on Sunday night after the issue came to light

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University of Limerick @unioflimerick.bsky.social · 5d

‘Throwing more money at it won't solve the housing crisis. We need more workers.’

Ahead of Budget 2026, Dr Ciarán Casey shares how ‘the proper time to have built infrastructure and housing here was during the last crash’.

Read on, in the Journal.ie: www.thejournal.ie/readme/housi...

#StayCurious

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 6d

He's become so committed to this now he's left office

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 7d

Leaving this closed for four years is appallingly stupid. We're right beside it and it's magic. It's a cliff, you get rockfalls. Make it as safe as you can but just get on with it

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County Council pours cold water on promising Bray-Greystones coastal path report

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 8d

You could swing it!

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University of Limerick @unioflimerick.bsky.social · 8d

In today’s Irish Examiner, Dr Ciarán Casey, Assistant Professor UL’s Kemmy Business School, argues that when it comes to inheritance tax, ‘capitalism just rewards those who already have capital’.

Read on: www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

#StayCurious #Budget2026

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 8d

A clear attempt to boost the Heather Humphries presidential campaign!

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 8d

Who was the first Amazon guy who said 'yeah, I'd better put this in the bin for safe keeping'?

Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 10d

Oh no

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 13d

Very much the approach Jesus took with his own designer clothing and contempt for the left

Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 14d

In local news, Dublin socialite Cruella de Vil says her “Dalmatian handbag was deliberate.”

“I wanted to expose the hypocrisy of the left who don’t love dogs; they just hate the rich,” she says.

She laughs when the subject of the handbag is raised. "The handbag was deliberate," she says of its appearance at the most public moment of her failed presidential bid this week. "I wanted to expose the hypocrisy of the left who don't love the poor; they just hate the rich," she says.
Steen

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 16d

My review of Frank Barry's recent book in Irish Historical Studies if anyone's interested

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Industry and Policy in Independent Ireland, 1922–1972. By Frank Barry. Pp 232. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2023. €85. | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core

Industry and Policy in Independent Ireland, 1922–1972. By Frank Barry. Pp 232. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2023. €85.

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 16d

The only time I find it really hard is when I'm starving and there's no decent vegetarian food. Midnight at weddings is often a killer

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 16d

Haha very true actually, it was a total mish mash. I only did it in first year but was really glad to- a lot of stuff I'd never have the patience to read now and am worse for it

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 16d

Oh my god, yeh the stories even then were crazy but all seem to have been pretty on form

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 16d

He taught me Asian philosophy and in fairness was great

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 16d

I find myself checking it now Twitter is effectively gone and it's a very empty replacement

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 16d

'...the interviewer was the dog'

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 16d

It's such a strange place

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 16d

Cos of the nice slacks

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 16d

They could tell how much each was used by the wear on the keys alone

Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 16d

But alt gr was sacrosanct apparently?

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 21d

My review of Frank Barry's recent book, Industry and Policy in Independent Ireland, in Irish Historical Studies

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Industry and Policy in Independent Ireland, 1922–1972. By Frank Barry. Pp 232. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2023. €85. | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core

Industry and Policy in Independent Ireland, 1922–1972. By Frank Barry. Pp 232. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2023. €85.

www.cambridge.org

Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 24d

And the inheritance tax threshold impacting 3% of the population. It's just so instinctive as a way of seeing the world

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 24d

Could a small amount be put aside in the Budget to paint the internal walls in university buildings please? I'll go round and do it all personally if necessary

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