Dismay: Ireland and Planning

dismay: Ireland's modern dismay, however, is at rampant and growing inequality, and the way in which its cities and cultural spaces are being hollowed out by speculation, gentrification, poor or absent planning and squandered opportunities, according to The Guardian. After five years of what could justifiably be called social revolution in Ireland, the cliche is that the country responded uniquely to the crippling austerity that followed the 2008 financial crash, not with anti-immigrant populism but with progressive politics. The line comes from Yeats's September 1913, which poured scorn on how the greed and hypocrisies of the business class had replaced the romanticism of previous Irish generations. Protest movements and grassroots campaigning, much of it driven by young people, resulted in landmark referendums that had a global impact, with Ireland legislating for marriage equality and overturning a ban on abortion. Rent is Dublin is now on average 36% higher than it was at the peak of the Celtic Tiger boom The most urgent crisis is housing. But this much-needed social progress is now serving as a veneer to mask harsh neoliberal economic policies and political myopia. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.