"Green" policies are destroying this country

Wrong.

plenty of new housing estates around these villages, but the people living in them don't use the village.

And what's the plan to get everybody from 'out the road' and into the viable town and village, because the current plan that's been going on 15 years certainly ain't working blanch, a lot of that is down to the fact the infrastructure and services isn't there, or was there and was removed by recent governments, so what exactly is this 'viable' plan that you are talking about?

"the decline of rural Ireland is a guarantee"

You sound like the FG secondary school geography teacher I had 30 years ago. He thought it was coming next week too.

Vegan urban peddle pusher advocates penury for farmers. There's a few other 'we coulds' I can think of...

Cyclist.

I think the de centralisation of all services out of Dublin, put the the departments and public servants to different towns and cities, knock the Dail and build a new building somewhere else, Athlone,Mullingar somewhere like that, The decentralisation will help everyone,

You do know that exports pay for a lot of services, population isn't big enough to sustain itself with domestic sales, the idea is we sell stuff abroad so we can buy other stuff from abroad, €14billion coming in for food exports last year,

Lol, right.

Are there any threads on boards where rural people endlessly give out about how they think urban dwellers should live their lives? I can't think of any, but this constant bemoaning of rural housing by urban socialists is seemingly endless.

An example please, because I am not sure you comprehended the question.

No. Supposition confirmed.

That's exactly what it is. You have the typical socialist greenie conceit of thinking that you are right; and secondly of thinking you have the right.

People don't all have the same life experiences, luck, talents or financial wherewithal. Building higher is more expensive. Building an apartment, even at current heights, in Dublin is more expensive than building a house, by floor area. Going even higher would be even more expensive.

This 'for the good of society' crock of shi t, is exactly that. It lead that >bleep< Green boof-head Gormley to foist diesels on the entire country. If the epidemiologists are right, your good of society killed people and is currently killing more.

Now Ireland is a country where you can't accuse the populace of learning from past mistakes, so here we are with Ryan doing the same thing. Same mental inadequacies and bucket loads of green conceit.

Back to your social engineering prescription. Given skyscraper housing is more expensive, that would make it less affordable to a lot of people. There is, however, a beneficial to your glorious 'society' solution: Smaller floor area to make the housing more affordable - Hong Kong style. I'll vote no to that.

Thankfully 'society' isn't just you and the other socialists. The metropolitan population of Dublin is 1.8 million, which leaves 3.2 million who don't live there, and awkwardly for you, who are as entitled to be considered part of society with opinions about how and where they should live. If they want to live in single storey houses with a backyard for their kids to play in and that's pet friendly, that's what they will have, courtesy of the ballot box.