Despite people’s perceptions, violent crime has rarely been lower in Ireland, but a rise in crimes made viral by social media ...

Yimbyism: in North America, families taking the housing crisis into their own hands and building in their gardens, so why not ...

Have you ever spent time in any Church of Ireland chapels around the country? Among other things, these isolated and now largely empty rural buildings are the resting place of a military culture that ...

On Friday morning, again in cheerful sunlight, the liveliness at the core of Galway city evoked a different size and style. These two cities, Limerick and Galway, are essential to Ireland’s future ...

At the start of the week there was a fear, not unreasonable, that tariffs might be applied to individual countries based on their specific trade surplus with the United States – a measure, in Trump’s ...

Economists, when talking about immigration, often blandly refer to “workers” or “talent”, but immigrants are people who expect services on a par with the citizens beside whom they are working in bars, ...

Let’s talk about the message, who gets to tell the story, who constructs the narrative and who frames the debate. The reason I’m ending the year with this column on who tells the story is, maybe like ...

Take the biggest issue facing Ireland right now – the housing market. With data and the right model of what drives house prices in real life, we can set policy that is likely to succeed. If the ...

Leaving Cert economics tells you what happens when demand soars and supply falters – prices go up and queues form, ultimately leading to stagflation, a scenario where prices go up while the economy ...

Now that the election is out of the way, it’s time to get serious about housing. Ireland needs a major housing reset and this will discommode many. It has to. Otherwise there will never be real social ...