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Dara Turnbull

@daraturnbull.bsky.social
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🇮🇪Irish housing economist, living in Lille🇫🇷. Research Coordinator @housingeurope.bsky.social in Brussels🇧🇪. A home is a need, not a want #HousingforAll

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Dara Turnbull @daraturnbull.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The ‘ceasefire’ framing is misleading if you haven't been following recent events. Lebanon hasn’t attacked Israel—this is just Israel pausing its carpet bombing of civilian areas. A more accurate headline would be something like: ‘Israel agrees to temporarily stop bombing civilian targets.’
rte.ie
Trump says Israel and Lebanon agree 10-day ceasefire
US President Donald Trump has said that Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a 10-day ceasefire.
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Dara Turnbull @daraturnbull.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
What Orban's (presumed) defeat shows is that a cleptocratic and corrupt state can really only endure long term when there is still enough money to keep the wheels greased and when repression knows no bounds. Hungary has no natural resources and is (despite itself) a member of the EU.
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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 20/02/2026
The Supreme Court:
Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM.
BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
🚨 RED C / Business Post poll 🚨 CONNOLLY, Catherine - 44% (+8) HUMPHREYS, Heather - 25% (-) GAVIN, Jim - 10% (-2) Undecideds - 21% (-6) www.businesspost.ie
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Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
My earlier tweet about Catherine Connolly hiring a former prisoner, in the form of a letter to the Indo. m.independent.ie/opinion/lett...
Title: "Ní Shionnáin served her sentence - surely she is allowed to rebuild her life?"

I want to clarify something – is it the view of the Taoiseach, and of commentators, that former prisoners should be denied opportunities to rebuild their lives away from violence or criminality, even after they have served their sentence?

Given her qualifications, Ursula Ní Shionnáin was perfectly suited for the role of administrative support for a TD working on the Oireachtas Committee for the Irish language, and Catherine Connolly was in the right to give her a chance.

I think it is much more concerning if our Government thinks that prisoners such as Ní Shionnáin should not be given the opportunity to rehabilitate when they demonstrate a willingness to do so.

As a former employee of the Irish Prison Service, that seems to go against everything that I was told during my training.

Tomás M Creamer, Ballinamore, Co Leitrim

Published 4th October, 2025, on the letter section of the Irish Indepedent.
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Dara Turnbull @daraturnbull.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
1/2: I have been working in Belgium since 2019. Both my nominal gross & net monthly salary are lower now than what they were when I worked in Ireland. HOWEVER, I feel much better off. Why? Because they state spends a lot on my behalf (especially healthcare), and I have a much lower cost of living...
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Irish Fiscal Advisory Council @fiscalcouncil.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Ireland faces a choice between immediate action or significant costs in the years ahead. Our report in collaboration with the Climate Change Advisory Council estimates potential costs. These could be reduced by more than half if actions are followed through on now.
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Dara Turnbull @daraturnbull.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
#Ireland 🇮🇪 is once again the worst performer in the EU when it comes to use of renewables in heating and cooling. This news comes in the same week as the @fiscalcouncil.bsky.social warned that the state could face up to €26.4 billion in costs related to missing various climate targets. I despair.
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Dara Turnbull @daraturnbull.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Something weird going on with 🇮🇪 house prices. Observable transactions outside Dublin align perfectly with hedonic regressions. But in Dublin, the average price of what is actually sold is way off the hedonic price. Perhaps smaller, less expensive properties are simply not coming to market?
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Dara Turnbull @daraturnbull.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Very interesting exchange with Google's Gemini AI. It is happy to help me with assistance in French, but not in Arabic. It claims not to have the ability to even tell me how to say 'hello' in Arabic, due to vague 'cultural nuances' and an apparent desire not to give me incorrect information. WTF?
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Dara Turnbull @daraturnbull.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
So, Eoin Ó Broin has only transferred 110 votes of his surplus to Eoin Ó Broin. Poor vote management there from The Eoin Ó Broin Party in #DMW #GE24 #GE2024
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Dara Turnbull @daraturnbull.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I haven't been on the other place even once today. The surge in popularity of Bluesky could not have come at a better time for Irish political nerds like myself #GE24 #Tally
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Dara Turnbull @daraturnbull.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
The write-up on Ireland's election today in Le Monde hits the nail on the head. It is a country that is very rich on paper, but is in reality impoverished when it comes to the quality of infrastructure and the scale of public investment. #GE24 #Ireland
lemonde.fr
L’Irlande, riche comme la Suisse mais pauvre en infrastructures
La nation au trèfle affiche l’un des PIB par habitant les plus élevés et 25 milliards d’euros d’excédent budgétaire. Pourtant, en matière de logement ou de transport, la pénurie pèse sur la population...
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Dara Turnbull @daraturnbull.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Well now.
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Dara Turnbull @daraturnbull.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The European Federation of Public, Cooperative, and Social Housing @housingeurope.bsky.social is now on Bluesky. Follow for frequent EU housing updates.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 21/11/2024
Israeli PM Netanyahu and ex-Defence Minister Gallant face ICC arrest warrants for "war crimes committed from at least 8 Oct 2023 until at least 20 May 2024.” aje.io/mse8rr
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Housing Europe @housingeurope.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Sorcha Edwards: 🆕 EESC report rightly shows that public, cooperative & social housing is a point of reference. Dutch #socialhousing has already invested EUR10 billion but they also must be supported by economic rules at different levels & we must build these entities where they do not exist.
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Dara Turnbull @daraturnbull.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Will people who want to avoid 'accidentally' supporting the far-right avoid transferring to independents? Will people who do want to support the fash transfer to non-FR independents by mistake? Both seem very possible, it's just a question of which dynamic is more consequential #GE24
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Emer Ní Shiochrú @siochru.ie · 16/11/2024
Ireland hasn’t had a single party win a majority since the 70s, but for the first time ever it’s not even theoretically possible as no party is running enough candidates in #GE24 to get a majority even if they won every race.
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Dara Turnbull @daraturnbull.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
The question is, do I delete my Xitter account, or just let it go dormant? I don't have a public profile, but who knows what the future holds? Is the risk that some blue-tick fraudster takes my handle real? Or, what are the actual benefits of 'delete' vs 'go dormant'?
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 07/11/2024
We’re going to hear lots of stories about which people, policies and rhetoric are to blame for the Democrats’ defeat. Some of those stories may even be true! But an underrated factor is that 2024 was an absolutely horrendous year for incumbents around the world 👇 
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Dara Turnbull @daraturnbull.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Marine Le Pen is guilty of fraud. Sentenced to 2 years in prison +5 years ineligibility as a political candidate. Very unlikely the two years in prison gets upheld (probably a suspended sentence), but the ineligibility likely will #FrenchPolitics #EUpolitics
liberation.fr
Procès des assistants fictifs du RN : deux ans de prison ferme et cinq ans d’inéligibilité requis contre Marine Le Pen
L’accusation a requis ce mercredi 13 novembre des peines lourdes à l’encontre de Marine Le Pen et du Rassemblement national, dans l’affaire portant sur les assistants fictifs du parti au parlement eur...
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Dara Turnbull @daraturnbull.bsky.social · 08/06/2024
Jumped back on Elon's hate machine just now to try and follow the results of #LE24 and it took me all of 30 seconds to remember why I left in the first place. Bad takes, tin foil hat wearers, and just blatant racist nonsense. What a swamp.
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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 17/05/2024
The Irish Times View on Increased Anti-Migrant Sentiment
We're all trying to find the guy who did this
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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 10/05/2024
I know everyone is rightly laughing at the "Make Crime illegal" tagline... But we should also appreciate the irony of the fact that this poster appears as though it could be in breach of section 140 of the Electoral Act, 1992, and thus itself might constitute a criminal offence.
Local election candidate Nick Delehanty vows to "make crime illegal" on his poster, but appears to have possibly committed a crime himself in the process. Whoops!
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Dara Turnbull @daraturnbull.bsky.social · 24/04/2024
Interesting new research on reinforced rent controls introduced in Paris in 2019. It finds that average rents in June 2023 were 4.2% lower than what they would have been had the controls not been introduced. www.apur.org/sites/defaul...
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Dara Turnbull @daraturnbull.bsky.social · 23/04/2024
Very useful online tool to help develop social housing.
european-social-fund-plus.ec.europa.eu
Commission launches toolkit to support social housing in Member States | European Social Fund Plus
The European Commission has released a new toolkit to help policymakers make the best use of EU funding to invest in social housing and accompanying services.
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Dara Turnbull @daraturnbull.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
Here here www.euractiv.com/section/econ...
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Dubious Mitch @weeznbeez.bsky.social · 02/03/2024
Holy shit
Poll that aired on MSNBC that showed that 49% of 18-29 year olds and 50% of Biden 2020 voters believe Israel is committing genocide against Palestinian civilians. (Vs 24% and 20% respectively "No" votes and the rest "Not Sure"
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Dara Turnbull @daraturnbull.bsky.social · 27/01/2024
The German economy is in recession, and now German politicians are complaining that the ECB doesn't have a dual mandate. Up until now Germany has always insisted that it must not have a dual mandate. Chickens coming home to roost come to mind 🙄
euractiv.com
'Very damaging': ECB policy fuels fears for German economy
The European Central Bank’s (ECB) decision to maintain interest rates at their record high levels on Thursday (26 January) has raised fears about its impact on Germany, as it shows increasing signs ...
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Dara Turnbull @daraturnbull.bsky.social · 23/01/2024
The thing that is so completely nuts about wanting to extend the timeline for the phasing out of the combustion engine is that it is just going to eat up valuable R&D capital that should be used to develop better and cheaper EVs. Or, do German car makers want Chinese rivals to eat their lunch?
euractiv.com
EPP group vows to revise combustion engine ban ‘as soon as possible’
A leaked election manifesto of the centre-right European People’s Party group (EPP) vows to “revise” the combustion engine phase-out, raising questions as to whether hard-won Green Deal laws wil...
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Dara Turnbull @daraturnbull.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
Fascinating results from the latest ECB Consumer Survey. Only one in five households have seen a growth in real incomes in the past year! The cost of living crisis is far from over on this basis... www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/economic...
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Dara Turnbull @daraturnbull.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
theguardian.com
The social housing secret: how Vienna became the world’s most livable city
In the Austrian capital, renters pay a third of what their counterparts do in London, Paris or Dublin. How is it possible?
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Dara Turnbull @daraturnbull.bsky.social · 24/12/2023
www.businesspost.ie/news/esri-we...
businesspost.ie
ESRI: We need to build 50,000 homes per year to meet demand
The government will be advised to increase its housing targets significantly from the 31,000 expected to be built this year, but minister admits there is not enough capacity
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Schwartz @schwartzht.bsky.social · 16/12/2023
Die 4 großen Mikroblogging-Plattformen
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Dara Turnbull @daraturnbull.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
And the brain rot of so-called 'establishment' centre-right parties continues...The comments here from the CDU politicians are either incredibly disingenuous or incredibly naive. Who knows.
theguardian.com
CDU seeks to win back German voters with its own Rwanda asylum plan
Official says party favours sending refugees to third countries such as Rwanda for application processing
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Dara Turnbull @daraturnbull.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
As if this had been in any doubt. There is a reason I gave up a Twitter follower base I had spent years cultivating. Not one more penny going to fuel the hate machine as a result of me and the content I was generating.
businesspost.ie
Exclusive: the X Files – how Elon Musk’s new rules allow hate to flourish
Leaked documents reveal how staff of the social media channel were stripped of powers to remove toxic content from its platform
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Dara Turnbull @daraturnbull.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
From the ECB’s staff projections: “Housing investment is expected to continue to decline in 2024 before recovering in 2025...The persistent weakness...is due to the considerable tightening of financing conditions...The adverse impact...is likely to be strong in 2023-24, and still notable in 2025”
ecb.europa.eu
Eurosystem staff macroeconomic projections for the euro area, December 2023
The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purch...
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Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com · 13/12/2023
If you're looking for a gift for someone, what about a year's subscription to Dublin Inquirer? It's a gift that keeps on giving all year. dublininquirer.com/s...
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Dara Turnbull @daraturnbull.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
Ireland's national stats 🇮🇪 agency has released a new special review of mortgage affordability for the 2020-2023 period. It shows that on average, mortgage repayments are "affordable". However, low-income households face a very significant repayment burden, of over 40% www.cso.ie/en/releasesa...
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mickbyrne.bsky.social @mickbyrne.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Great guest post today by Pierce Daly, ECB economist, looking at the fine detail, nuances and complexity of institutional investment in Irish housing @daraturnbull.bsky.social @robkitchin.bsky.social @stephenkinsella.bsky.social @sanvanlan.bsky.social theweekinhousing.substack.com/p/institutio...
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Dara Turnbull @daraturnbull.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Eurostat has released its latest 'Housing in Europe' interactive publication. It's always nice to have the key metrics grouped together in once place 🏘️ ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/...
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Dara Turnbull @daraturnbull.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
I have been on here for a few days now, and I haven't seen any keyboard warriors, ignorant racists, or bad take merchants. I'm not used to this "civil discours". Should I be suspicious?
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Rapporteur @euractiv.com · 27/11/2023
Ireland works to restore decimated woodlands www.euractiv.com/sec...
euractiv.com
Ireland works to restore decimated woodlands
Ireland has seen a dramatic decrease in its woodlands, from trees covering 80% of the country 6,000 years ago to 1% by the end of the 19th century and around 11% today, according to Ireland's Agriculture and Food Development Authority.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
IT’S THE MESS WE INHERITED IT’S THE AGEING POPULATION IT’S THE FINANCIAL CRISIS IT’S BED BLOCKERS IT’S THE PANDEMIC IT’S THE WAR IN UKRAINE IT’S THE UNIONS IT’S IMMIGRANTS Is it though.
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Zia Weise @ziaweise.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
The far-right party that surged to victory in Wednesday’s Dutch election wants to ditch all efforts to stop climate change. www.politico.eu/article/why-...
politico.eu
Why the Dutch election result spells trouble for Europe’s climate efforts
Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party wants to undo the green transition.
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Interesting 💫 @interesting.bsky.social · 25/11/2023
Fun fact There are 36 million Americans of Irish descent and only 5 million people currently living in Ireland. If your ancestors lived in Ireland in the 1800s, you are 9 times more likely to live in the USA than Ireland.
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Dara Turnbull @daraturnbull.bsky.social · 25/11/2023
On Thursday night, I saw in real time how Elon's swamp artificially promoted hate mongers in #Dublin. I saw accounts with virtually no followers pushed to those looking for information. It was my breaking point. Time to begin again on #bluesky. Follow me for updates on #Housing 🏠& #EUaffairs 🇪🇺
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