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“All I want for Christmas is affordable housing.”
Maggie Finney - Mani Pizza “All I want for Christmas is to go home, see my family, my friends. Hug them, tell them that I am fine here, and that I really miss them also.” Martin Rieta - Roots “All I want for Christmas is for the Irish rail to come back.” Henna Redmond - The Grand Social Cat - Chapters Bookstore I still dream of a Civic Museum returning to Dublin. Like the Musée Carnavalet in Paris or the brilliant Stadtmuseum in Berlin, a museum that tells the story of Dublin from its foundation to the present day would be a welcome addition to the city. We had one before, with such weird and wonderful things as Bang Bang’s key and Admiral Horatio Nelson’s head, in a space run by the city itself. Few cities are more deserving of such a place than the Hibernian Metropolis. Donal Fallon - Presenter of the Three Castles Burning podcast. Author of 14 Henrietta Street: From Tenement to Suburbia (Dublin, 2021) “All I want for Christmas is loads of Lego.” Graham Sharpe - Music Maker “Rent and housing prices to go down” Amy Griffin- Retro - Georges St Arcade “I want a better rail service to and from Derry” “All I want for Christmas is a new 3D printer” Daniel Kelly - Arboretum A way to support and show solidarity to those enduring the outrageous ongoing situation in Palestine, and all those exiled Palestineans watching the horror unfold from afar. Which is why I love the beautiful tokens of solidarity (like the map of Palestine as a red, green, black and white pin badge, or gold-coloured pendant) and excellent Al’Ard fairtrade foods (such as Palestinian olive oil and sumac harvested by local farmers maintaining ancient traditions against all odds) sold through the webshop of the wonderful Izz Cafe in Cork city. See izz.ie/collections and alard.ps for more information. Aoife Carrigy: Food, drinks and travel writer & editor. Wine writer, Irish Independent’s Weekend Magazine. “I would really, really love a kind of community space for creatives and artists to work from, so we could all collectively work somewhere that’s made for queer and creative people because we’re being pushed out of Dublin city, and rents are so expensive.” Mello Hex- Retro - Georges St Arcade 50