cinnte!

pragmatically, temporary closures are also a smaller ask for residents to support - so they provide an opportunity for communities to develop and build street play cultures where none exist or where the need for one is less well understood/appreciated...

in keeping with cross-country running's potential for commercial exploitation and, by extension, its interest to national broadcast media, there will be no live coverage of the race! Catch up with the results here in a bit: myrunresults.com/events/123ie...

you're just being a techno(phobe)methodologist!

solutionism is a disease

(I also haven’t read the article but I can guess)

(no shade to my engineer and economist friends and, no, I won’t be taking questions on this at this point in time)

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Well, that was the plan, not sure if it still is...the current sports fields would be the only remaining open green space (but not open to the public) ...

contrast that with the sketch on the right which doesn't include the railings & padlocked gates which are added in the final implementation!

Absolutely! (although I would also still like them to be pitches, just public ones!!). Grangegorman could get worse though - I remember seeing older development plans for the campus which indicated precious little green space left apart from private pitches once all the construction was complete!

And support your community radio stations, folks - that's where your pals, family and wider community are.

#spéirghorm #ireland

Brought to mind "Leaving the field: Methodological insights from ethnographic exits" -

"the examination of a range of exits from a variety of contexts" covers: ‘good’ (planned) exits; abrupt/unwelcome exits; ‘bad’ exits; partial exits and returns" 🤓

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