This is the trap in which Ireland’s politicians have caught themselves: They say the country is not full, because they can say nothing else without changing their policy.
Living in a box room
If you didn’t know who she was, you might think you’d woken up from a coma, and were listening to John Bruton or Bertie Ahern, circa 1997.
One thing is for sure: This is not a simple issue, and anyone who tells you they have an easy fix is pulling the wool over your eyes.
Ombudsman report
MATT TREACY asks if the ARP payment of €800 a month to provide accommodation to Ukrainians, tax free, might be a factor in increased difficulty in finding rental accommodation.
It’s a strange country, where people hold Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to a higher standard of competence than they hold people who receive millions of euros in taxpayer funding.
How do I know, for example, that a promise from Eoin O’Broin is impossible to keep? The simple answer is “maths”.
The law passed by the Oireachtas is now being interpreted by An Bord Pleanála to mean something that it’s highly unlikely the Oireachtas intended to be the effect of its legislation.
The Peter McVerry trust is illiquid, not insolvent. It should be forced to take its losses, sell some property, and learn its lessons.
MyHome.ie survey
They indulged the labelling of their own citizens as racist and extremist for saying the very things that they themselves now admit to be true.