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THE LITTLE MUSEUM of Dublin is set for a small move – from one St Stephen’s Green building to another, just a few metres away.
The popular Dublin museum, which tells the story of the city through a collection of artefacts and bric-a-brac, is set to move from 15 St Stephen’s Green to 14 St Stephen’s Green following years of discussions with Dublin City Council about moving to a larger home.
The expansion will allow for a new education space in the museum, while the building will also be refurbished to allow for disability access, which Dublin City Council described as a “fundamental element” of the agreement.
Speaking to The Journal.ie, deputy director of the Little Museum of Dublin, Sarah Costigan, said: “We’ve been talking about what the future looks like for the museum.”
A new building, she said, will allow the museum to better “tell the story of Dublin”.
Costigan said there was no yet set date for the move. She also couldn’t confirm whether the museum would have to close temporarily to facilitate the move. However, she acknowledged that moving over 5,000 artefacts from one building to another would be a “substantial task”.
A formal agreement with Dublin City Council, the museum’s primary patron, was signed off on 19 September by the assistant chief executive Richard Shakespeare.
It will see tax return management company Taxback vacate 14 St Stephen’s Green and move into the upper floors of 15 St Stephen’s Green.
The museum has been granted a 35-year lease, with the annual rent set at €5,000. It must also provide proof to the council that it has secured the necessary funding to install disability access facilities before the move can take place.
“The prospect of making the museum universally accessible,” Costigan said, was a “huge accomplishment”.
The Little Museum of Dublin was established in 2011 and since then has become a popular tourist destination, running exhibitions on everything from former Lord Mayor of Dublin Alfie Byrne to rock band U2.
In 2016, the museum’s director, Trevor White, told Fora that he was optimistic that the museum would be able to expand in the face of an ever-increasing number of visitors. In 2015, more than 101,000 people visited the museum.
Ah trickle down economics. The biggest lie ever sold to the working classes …
@Sos: Something trickles down, that’s why those at the bottom are called peons.
@Sos: Whats worked for you so far?
@Sos: Trickle down theory does have some merit but only in a growing economy where it is prudent to invest rather then horde. What the tories are doing is making sure the wealthy are as comfortable as possible for the coming storm. They’re pulling the ladder up basically.
@Sos: Tickle down economics: https://i.imgur.com/2CqbbcF.jpg
@Sos: … somedays you’re the pigeon, most days you’re the statue – getting s h a t on from a height!!
@Optimus: lol literally not-trickle-down economics has worked so far. The proof is in the pudding, you just need to look to the gains made during the era of new deal liberalism and the stagnation following the introduction of trickle down economics from the Reagan/Thatcher years.
@Will: I agree with the second part, but there is little merit to trickle down economics in all scenarios. Marginal consumption means it’s always very inefficient, some places where the rich spend more it’ll just be a little less efficient.
Because the rich really need help when the going gets tough !!
@Ivor O’Sullivan ☘: Help? You realise it’s their own money. The British Gov has just decided to confiscate less of it. I think having a progressive tax system is fair enough but when we’re taking more than half of what somebody earns I think we’re getting into serfdom territory.
@Damon16: Really?
Half?…..Get out of town…..The uber Rich and most affluent people spend considerable resources avoiding tax or vastly reducing it. Very few rich people pay anywhere near the 50%
@Damon16: The more you earn the more you pay, absolutely. Have tax bands in place to reflect earnings and for the big earners tax the bajasus out of anything above 250k.
That’s the kind of place I want to live in. You can’t take it with you, so share the love to build a better society.
@Ivor O’Sullivan ☘: unfortunately that would backfire big time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve?wprov=sfla1
@Sebastian Manka: However, the shape of the curve is uncertain and disputed among economists
@Ivor O’Sullivan ☘: Who do you think earns more money? The workers making Bentleys, Rolls Royce, Aston Martin etc or the ones making a Fiat 500? If You tax the “bajasus” out of anyone earning a good wedge we will all end up driving a Lada with no airbags or ABS brakes & how do you explain to those master craftsmen making Rollers that they will earn a lot less but they will only have to press a green button & a red one? A Banker picking up a 2 Million bonus in the UK will pay 900K in tax. A banker earning 250K bonus will pay just 112K now which will butter more parsnips? If you are an investment banker that could pick up a bonus of 5 million or a banker that is capped at 250K where would you want to work & pay your taxes? Workers like corporations don’t want to pay any more tax than they have to.
@Joe Thorpe: As long as the Lada drives on good roads and if the driver is an accident, will receive great healthcare, with support to take off work while he recovers, I’d happily drive a Lada.
@Joe Thorpe: that’s not true, Bill Gates didn’t leave the states to found Microsoft when the top tax bracket in the US was 70%. As long as the market is attractive for business, the workers will be there.
If we took 90% of the top 1%’s wealth from them, they’d still be richer than the top 1% of the 20th Century. And most people are struggling to afford to live working full time like crazy. Mad times we’re living in. It’s not sustainable
45bn in tax cuts with interest rates going up, inflation barely coming down. Yeah I think whatever economists are advising them need to rethink there careers.
@Sean Collins: It sort of reminds me of the way asset strippers treat companies just after they get them and before they’re quite ready to bail.
@Sean Collins: I get the feeling they don’t care what the economists think, they’re looking out for their keepers interests, screw the people. I believe Kwasi didn’t wait for the forecasts from the Office for Responsible Budget and just pushed it through.
Of course it did. No help for the hard working ordinary person.
The true meaning of Brexit.
Looking like a good place to go work for formative years …. No stamp duty on houses up to £250,000! nice
@iohanx: Interest rates flying up, currency at lowest level in 37years, cost of borrowing for the country going through the roof and plans to increase government borrowing in 2022/2023 by a whacking great 193billion just to pay for the estimated 150billion price cap.
Yeah, sounds like a super place to spend the formative years of one’s working life…
And Sein Fein want to copy her energy cap proposal. Says it all really.
@DK: nice strawman you’ve made for yourself
@Kevin Burke: Doesn’t make what I said untrue.
Lol , journal readers up in arms about the brits doing things, again.
@Laing: yeah it’s not like anything they do ever affects us. Ya big eejit.
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How does this British budget affect ‘us’? What measures would you have liked to have seen implemented, and did the party you voted for run on this mandate?
Typical Tories, all for the benefit of the rich as usual. Lower earners can take a running jump
The gap between rich and poor grows even wider and accelerates even further.
You have to wonder where all this is going to end.
The UK now intends to move their embassy to Jerusalem ? have they no heart !
@Bala mc blaha: I mean the Israeli imperialism is probably inspired by what the British have done hundreds of times throughout history. It’s not a surprise to see their mask slip on occasion showing the monster underneath.
@Bala mc blaha: They ‘gave’ Palestine to them in the first place.
The 45% tax rate is being scrapped and replaced with a 40% rate which won’t kick in until you earn over £250,000 as opposed to the old threshold of £150,000.
Still a typical tory giveaway to the wealthy but saying the 45% rate is being scrapped without saying what’s replacing it is dishonest, click bait journalism.
@Will: finally someone with a bit of sense.
@Will: 40% rate already exists i think
Why would higher paid work in Ireland?
@Mark B: Do you mean why would higher paid people here not just go to the UK instead?
If so, then the answer is easy – The UK economy is goosed, inflation is gone mad, there are strikes and widespread social unrest and divisions in society keep getting deeper.
@Lee King Buckett: Lee if the increase the tax rate for higher earners anymore here they will all start getting paid throu the uk. Lets take 100k for easy maths, one pays over 40k a year in tax, 40k infact just in PRSI. How many of those 40ks are needed to sustain the ever increasing welfare supports that are required for the cost of living crisis? And when multiple 40k’s stop coming in who will pay for them??
@Sarah Lou: there is no 40% rate of PRSI
@michael walsh: apologies for my inaccuracy, which of course was the most import thing in my comment. if one earns 100k in Ireland they pay 38,491 per annum in tax. if that is lost due to tax hikes by even 100 people that is a revenue loss of 3849100 per annum to the government
@Lee King Buckett: Hmmm, your “easy” answer is not that compelling to me. Inflation is a little higher than here but not significantly, there are a few strikes, maybe the odd day of no rail travel. Social unrest? I haven’t seen any significantly worse than here. Divisions in society ain’t that great in Ireland either, but if I were a high earner chances are I wouldn’t worry too much about that. I would like a free NHS though and an economy not totally reliant on foreign investment is probably a bonus also.
But I love to hear people sticking up for the benefits of living in Ireland, it’s a great place and should be appreciated by more here imo.
@Sarah Lou: you’re comparison is very flawed / 100k earner in Ireland averages 39k in tax social insurance and usc / 100k in Uk average around 35k in taxes and social charges etc / it’s a myth to think that just because they are dropping the top rate that all the other taxes and insurance payments are miraculously disappeared / it’s nonsense to think we can just start switching to the Uk and not have taxable income and social charges because they still apply – also your assertion that PRSI is 40% is nonsense
@Mark B: free NHS is not much use when you cannot get an appointment to see a GP in less than two weeks
@Mark B: This is true of any time period and tax system really. All economies are massive by comparison to ours. Guaranteed you will do better if you leave.
They will have to make it up elsewhere and like always, they’ll make cuts to the NHS and other public services.
@Seán Ó Briain:
I’m sure the expense of NI on UK books is also not going unnoticed. Watch this space.
Management of the asylum has changed hands in earnest.
Trickledown Economics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yzeOqV7eKI
:)
Cool, so now we know where Irish middle to high earners will flee to, once the Shinners introduce their “Wealth Tax”
If you were a high earning high tax paying investment banker where would you like to be based? Ireland should be falling over themselves to attract them to this jurisdiction, better they pay a lower tax on a huge uncapped income here instead of no tax on their income being collected here& some other jurisdiction picking it up? We can hardly complain about someone cutting taxes with corporation taxes as low as they are here, will the UK look to move nearer to 15% too? What would the Journal readers be streaking about if they did exactly what we are doing?
@Joe Thorpe: I think the gov really should consider reducing all the tax rates to 20% and see what happens. bet money on it they would have same if not more income from it.
A historian’s budget – what could go wrong?
Fair play to her for cutting the dole for The career dole merchants..its a pity someone wouldn’t have the balls to do it in this welfare state.
How does this British budget affect ‘us’? What measures would you have liked to have seen implemented, and did the party you voted for run on this mandate?
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