Damien Kiberd: This government's housing policy will - literally - put people on the streets
Willful ignorance or not, the crude approach is going to end in misery. Again.
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Four first-time buyers share their experience.
Willful ignorance or not, the crude approach is going to end in misery. Again.
Damien Kiberd finds the election promise of an ‘average’ water charge is as leaky as a badly-laid pipe.
“This country is suffering from paralysis by analysis”.
But it hasn’t helped them as those old-school types have made it next to impossible for young qualified types to get a permanent job.
Four first-time buyers share their experience.
With the EU forcing us into a ‘devaluation for slow learners’, isn’t it time we look closer at what exactly the euro has done for us?
There’s a hole in the balance sheets, dear Liza.
…but this might not be a Bad Thing.
The ex-Garda Commissioner was hung out to dry in the most contrived way – but the Taoiseach’s handling of GardaGate was razor sharp.
Statisticians tell us inflation is a memory but what lies beneath – massive premiums on childcare, health insurance, water tax and more – is a better measure of the pain consumers feel.
The Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival is taking place until March 14.
‘Spin doctors? But who the hell is sick?’ To paraphrase the TV drama Borgen, Frank Flannery’s dismissal uncovers some uncomfortable truths about ‘access all areas’ PR in politics.
And more to the point – are we “f**ked and brainwashed” by the ‘European Project’?
When the economy collapsed the banks got top priority. Building workers and people who need social housing were far down the pecking order. Now they’re telling us a miracle is on the way…
A glut of cash buyers, homeowners anchored by negative equity and tracker mortgages – in Dublin, the situation for young people trying to buy is alarming.
Official Ireland does not like inconvenient truths – which is why Trinity professor Jim Stewart’s spot-on research makes it defensive.
RTÉ would do well to remember the story of Jurgen Klinsmann’s dive in the 1990 World Cup and the effect that had on schoolboy footballers for years to come.
As Ireland has discovered following the row over the cancellation of penalty points for motoring offences, the ethics of whistleblowing can be most complicated, writes Damien Kiberd.
Psychopath or a good soldier? The ‘no show’ of global leaders at his final goodbye nods to a life of contradictions.
When the chips are down, Ireland has always been able to count on Britain – so why don’t we support them if they want to leave the EU?
Were they not correct to put the business interests of Ireland first? And what about those other human rights abusers Ireland conveniently chooses to ignore?
…And why their tech confusion means there is no logic in how they price its shares.
Job figure increases are welcome – but Government needs to be bolshy to grab the three things it needs for proper growth.
The target borrower for banks is often a high net worth individual living overseas: ordinary owner-occupiers can go and whistle.
Ireland Inc. got the thumbs-up as the best place to do business. The glossy magazine headline hides a less attractive truth about tax, unemployment and Stalinist powers.
Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Doing the hokey cokey or pleading poverty at the back door of the Bundesbank?
“The model of social partnership promoted since 1987 relies for its internal cohesion on permitting people at various levels within the system to milk that system for their own benefit.”
Two million Irish people pay for private health cover out of fear of our public system – but both are broken. Here’s what we COULD do…
From the Universal Social Charge to the Local Property Tax, the Government has implemented a labyrinth of new taxes, both overt and covert.
Rather than tackle these rather basic issues of numeracy and literacy, we are meddling with exam systems which may not be a problem at all.
Taoiseach Kenny wrote a letter to 26 EU heads about their 2012 “commitment” to give Ireland special treatment – but they don’t care for wimpish reminders.
What’s to become of the very sick who can’t afford insurance cover and who don’t qualify for medical cards? Does anyone – including Reilly – know?
The figures are extraordinarily precise, writes TheJournal.ie columnist Damien Kiberd – as imaginary numbers often neatly are.
“Families want to exit their own micro-bailouts too,” writes new TheJournal.ie columnist Damien Kiberd.