If hotel prices in Dublin are extortionate, that is simply because a lot of people want to go to Dublin on the date in question.
Ireland collected $1.2 billion of corporate tax in July
It is not the laws of economics that govern Ireland’s housing market. That’s the whole problem.
That is an indictment of the political record. One we do not talk about enough. A pound of butter should not cost €5.50.
A great green carbuncle on the national backside.
Actually.
“Ireland must learn before it collapses the way Britain is now collapsing.”
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Don’t assume you are immune to magical thinking.
The central question isn’t if foreigners should be allowed to buy houses, but why we have made it so attractive.
A trade deficit is not actually a bad thing in all – or even most – circumstances. Countries with trade deficits are rich.
McWilliams got the easy bit right. It might be a few more years before he feels safe enough to say the next bit out loud.