The Eleven Cookies
The grievance behind the fuel protests and the riots is real. The research says it is not personal poverty but a collective sense of lost …
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Tagged: Housing
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Have You Looked Out Your Window Lately?
On 28 May 2026 two pieces of news arrived in parallel. The UK's Alan Milburn warned of a 'lost generation' of more than a million …
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Three years to house everyone: a working financing model
A working financial model for ending Irish modern homelessness in approximately three years: capital cost, financing terms, the transition profile, and the comparison with continuing …
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The arithmetic of not building
Around €900 million flowed from the Irish State to private emergency-accommodation providers and HAP landlords in 2024, producing no permanent public asset. The same money …
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The landlords came back
Ireland is the country that won the Land War and removed landlordism across eighty years. In 2013 the State legislated a new landlord class into …
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There is no excuse: Ireland already built its way out of a housing crisis once
Ireland built over 60,000 social homes in the 1970s and sold most of them off in the 1980s. The current crisis is the consequence of …
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A country is not a business
Five stories from one day's news cycle in Ireland reveal the Ireland.Inc frame: socialised costs, private upside, externalities borne by the public.
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Irish Minister Who Thinks the Problem Is the Coverage
Patrick O'Donovan, Minister for Media, Communications, Culture and Sport, went on Limerick's Live 95 today and said he would ask Coimisiún na Meán — Ireland's …
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This Is Not Normal
You already know something is wrong. You've known for a while. The news cycle confirms it daily: climate collapse accelerating past every guardrail, genocide broadcast …
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It Is Too Much
It is too much. That is the first thing to say, and most of the writing about the present moment will not say it, because …
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What the Surplus Hides
On paper, Ireland is the only Western European country currently building government wealth at scale rather than running it down. By the standard measures, the …
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The Island That Went First
So imagine this. A political movement based on a doctrine of acceptance, the kind described in our previous article, gains power in Ireland. Not in …
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