House price inflation of 22.5%
The missing factor here is perhaps an absence of political will created by an abandonment of any foundational vision of what an independent Ireland might be.
And students can’t have it both ways
Just more divisive talk
Plan commits to have the local authority distribution key in place before the end of December this year
If you knew Post-Everything Fianna Fáil less well, then you might get the impression that there was something other than desperation behind their latest appeal to the dwindling band of people who might vote for them. Their Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien has apparently written to the Catholic Primate of All Ireland Eamon Martin to suggest […]
Ireland has also witnessed the third highest increase in rents over the period between the first quarter of 2010
Last night the Government succeeded in passing a last minute amendment to the Finance (Covid and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021 that will allow institutional investors, otherwise “vulture funds”, to avoid paying stamp duty on housing units if they agree to lease them to local authorities. This represents a huge concession to the investors who have […]
Two of the best known writers of the 1950s in the United States were Whitaker Chambers, the exposer of Communist Party/Soviet penetration of the American administration and author of Witness; and Ayn Rand who wrote the bestselling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Both remain betes noir of the left, but they had little in […]
Irish politicians have long been amongst the worst sufferers in the world of that great political pandemic: do-something-itis. When ever there is a crisis, something must swiftly be done, to demonstrate to the public that the politicians understand the crisis, and have a plan. Last night, just days after the public outrage about investment funds […]
Average monthly rents in Ireland have effectively doubled since 2011, according to a new report from Daft.ie. According to the new report’s figures, in the first quarter of 2021, rental prices outside Dublin soared to 7.1% higher than in the same period last year, costing renters an eye-watering €900 more annually. Comparatively, rent costs in […]
It is an extraordinary thing, in a modern western democracy, to hear a mainstream politician openly suggesting a complete ban on all immigration. Such calls, after all, are usually reserved to the fringes of the political fringe. Even Donald Trump, the most openly anti-immigration world leader of recent times, never went so far as to […]