Dublin Opinion

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Or is this decision from Judge John Cooke of the High Court absurd?
Outlining the reasons for his ruling today, Judge John Cooke said the court found there are good grounds to give this second petition a hearing.
The court is satisfied that the material now proffered answers the deficiencies identified by the Supreme Court, Judge […]

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This report, more commonly known as the Kenny Report, was begun in 1971 and finally published in 1974. Its findings have never been implemented.
Its recommendations formed part of the Green Party’s pre-election manifesto. And even though John Gormley is the Minister in charge of local government, and land reform, there has been absolutely no […]

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I like Paul Krugman. He’s a liberal, somewhat left-leaning, a Keynesian at heart, and, like Milton Friedman, a Nobel laureate. Usually he gets things right. His latest opinion piece on the Irish economy is not really one of those times.
Not that he gets it wrong, mind. His latest opinion piece is not about Ireland […]

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This leaflet came through my letter-box today. It was waiting for me when I got home this evening. It’s from some shower called Northern Cross who are trying to flog-off one-bed apartments on the “Malahide Road” for €200,000. And who have they got to show us that these apartments are a good buy? Well, none […]

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€132 billion.
That’s how much Ireland Inc. owes in mortgages.
€32 Billion.
That’s how much Ireland Inc. has ‘invested’ in buy-to-rent properties, around €23 billion of that taken out in the past five years.
Thing is, this figure contains mortgages that were taken out on vastly-overpriced properties, and as such, any move to re-capitalize the banks must go with […]

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This is another taping I made of the Vincent Browne Show - side B of the programme below. Again, it’s another fascinating discussion involving Browne and an informed panel of Dr. Kevin Whelan, Prof. Tom Bartlett, and Prof. Tom Dunne, with the topic this time the 1798 rebellion.
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The Fianna Fáil plan to fix the systematic problems within the Irish banking system is… to mortgage the entire country in order to keep the system running the same way as before.
The contradiction inherent to that decision - to fix a broken system by ensuring it runs the same way as before - is […]

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In 1972 Rosita Sweetman wrote the following in her book, On Our Knees: Ireland 1972:
You may wonder why the Fianna Fail government doesn’t do something about controlling the price of land, the building of houses and general accommodation problems in a city bursting at the seams…If you are still sceptical, you might take a trip […]

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€15.685 billion.
That’s how much Irish people have spent in the past two and a half years in buying houses and apartments so they can rent them out to others. It adds up to 60,277 units, with an average mortgage of €260,215 for each one. First-time-buyers spent €19.168 billion on mortgages over the same period, on […]

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