Síológ | Ep. 1 - Zohran Wins in NYC, 1000 Days of Planning Hell, and Bald JD Vance in the Dáil

Welcome to the first episode of Síológ, where young Green Party members spill the tea on this week's political chaos, both at home and across the pond. We're buzzing about Zohran Mamdani's brilliant primary win in New York. Brad Lander backed Mamdani despite also being on the ballot, and it's the kind of political maturity Irish politics could use more of. Could Ireland's centre-left/left parties learn a thing or two about collaboration instead of throwing jabs? Speaking of things that don't work properly—Dublin's planning system is having another moment. Metrolink has officially spent 1000 days in An Bord Pleanála purgatory, which is roughly 999 days too many for a city desperately crying out for decent public transport. Meanwhile, Parliament Street got pedestrianised, and suddenly Dublin feels a bit more like, well, a place for people to live in. And finally, the great J1 exodus continues—applications are down 25% this year as Uncle Sam tightens the surveillance screws on Irish students. Because nothing says "land of the free" like extra monitoring of teenagers desperate to work in summer camps, right?