As report warns thousands leaving Ireland every year
But firms optimistic for year ahead
The “Build Back Home” campaign.
We used to be able to build houses for the population
The construction sector faces a growing skills shortage.
“A home of your own” amounts to an enormous public works programme in a sector of the economy already boasting full employment.
If we need more construction workers, then what would be wrong about offering Irish construction workers the exact same terms that we offered to Ukrainians who wished to come here for refuge?
“To help achieve our climate goals.”
“Laissez-faire attitude”
China So here we are heading into July 2021 and much of our Irish summer so far has been dismal. I gave up on hope for our Irish weather and built myself a greenhouse. Today I was planting my tomatoes as I thought about China and grumbled about the price of wood to build said greenhouse. […]
The claim that all improvements in living conditions are illusionary distractions was pioneered first by Lenin in What is to be Done? and updated as part of new left ideology in the 1960s by Marcuse and the Frankfurt School of Marxism. It still forms the basis of current identity politics in which the traditional working […]
The Economic and Social Research Institute has this morning published a paper by one of its economists Kieran McQuinn on the likely short term future of the housing market in Ireland. The paper is largely technical regarding budgetary projections, but its main focus is on how state intervention in the housing market could be increased […]