From working with planners in Ireland a lot of the problems are down to classic poor planning, questionable zoning (if you can call it zoning), incompetent loca

From working with planners in Ireland a lot of the problems are down to classic poor planning, questionable zoning (if you can call it zoning), incompetent local government, and the penchant for low rise building in Ireland. In Ireland nothing is ever backed up by decent independent analysis and well executed social and market research. It's a Gombeen nation where politics centres around winks, nods, and how many funerals you go to in your constituency. There are very few intellectually honest players that are anything more than centrist leaves that blow which ever way the wind is going. I could write volumes, but I just don't have the energy for the place anymore, it's just a nonsense country that believe it's own bullshit. I was born and raised there and I left because I was getting sick of the delusion of the high tax, high bullshit economy. This video sums up so many things that made me leave, and the things that I miss, the line "sometimes were too tough on ourselves, most of the time we're not tough enough" is bang on. https://vimeo.com/56336219 https://vimeo.com/56336219