Lord Mayor of Dublin backs free city-wide wi-fi

The new Lord Mayor of Dublin, Vincent Jackson, has come out in favour of free, or very cheap, wi-fi built by the city. And he says that if councillors such as Naoise O'Muiri and Lucinda Creighton keep their campaigns up, it has a good chance of actually being funded as early as this November. I talked to him earlier this week about the issue.
"Looking around the council, I think that there will be very few people saying no to this," said Jackson. "It's not a lot of money. It's a very positive thing for everybody. It would be great if Dublin was to the fore of this."
"It's not a lot of money by today's standards. If it were to result in an advantage to investing in Dublin, it must be considered. You only have to look at how much the IDA spends at the moment attracting jobs. This is not a lot of money by comparison."
"It's important that Naoise [O'Muiri] brings it up in November. That's when the estimates are published. There are a lot of negotiations and debate in the eight weeks before that over funding and where money is to be sourced for various issues."
"We're no longer a low cost economy. Research and development is the way of the future."

This idea may be gaining momentum. (Picture taken by NoirinP.)