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There is an ongoing perception that Irish Green Party policies are perceived as impractical in rural communities. To what degree that is actually the case vs. a lazy media narrative, might be worth considering.
If more #IrishFarmers are switching to organic and #sustainable agricultural practice, does that represent a sea change as Minister Éamon Ryan suggests?
@mnutty there is also an on going perception that rural Ireland = not Dublin. When in fact 65% of the population is urban
@SimonB Big as #Dublin is, it still represents only 1/3 of the overall ROI population. According to Macrotrends the #rural population is about the same size. As an overall share of the population it has been steadily declining for the past 50 years
How rural vs Dublin vs urban vs small town is chopped up is unknown to me. I imagine these various divides are in need of different Green policies
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/IRL/ireland/rural-population
@mnutty there's also Cork, Waterford, Galway which are cities.
https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-urli/urbanandrurallifeinireland2019/
@SimonB On my travels on #Ireland, I’ve noticed how many towns are struggling for a raison d’être. The gravitational force of Dublin, Cork, Galway and Limerick is sucking the life out of #SmallTown Ireland.
I’d hoped that one of the benefits of #COVID might have been a reimagination of these settlements although I’m not aware of that materializing, maybe someone else can opine?
@mnutty @SimonB It’s the jobs. Without a way to make a living, the children of a small village have no choice but to move away. Rural high speed broadband, and work-remote jobs have already made a big improvement. Next step: change the tax laws so people can work for non-Irish employers (which Revenue Ireland permitted for a year during Covid, and two for people working in the U.K.)
It's not the jobs. Even people with jobs within a reasonable commute distance don't want to live in a village, they want to live in a bungalow on an acre or two with a nice bit of road frontage.
The population of every single county increased between 2016 and 2022, but the demise of the villages didn't slow down.
@liddletummy @Sliotar @mnutty even in Dublin car free wouldn't be easy
@SimonB @Sliotar @liddletummy I don’t think the idea is to make #Dublin #CarFree, more like less car stuffed. If you go to Amsterdam for example, there are still cars on the streets, just no so many. Reducing the number of private vehicles creates space for more effective #PublicTransit
@mnutty @Sliotar @liddletummy in this concext I meant car free as in not owning a car.
In the city sense I prefer #LessCars instead of #CarFree for the reasons you listed above and others