We need a vision for Dublin with people and agencies who will implement it
Dublin’s skyline bristles with cranes these days. It echoes the scene at the height of the height of the Celtic Tiger building boom. But the similarity is superficial. Most of the cranes are located on building sites for offices, hotels and tax-driven student accommodation. Home building is very much in the back seat – at […]
A panicked political decision on Metrolink
The MetroLink madness is continuing. Our Taoiseach says he is open to re-routing the southern end of the proposed Metro line from Swords and the airport so as to serve the suburban areas area from the city centre via UCD Belfield to Sandyford. But is this just political palaver designed to defuse the Metrolink controversy […]
This Brexit shambles must be resolved in the next few weeks
It is hard not to gasp at the implosion of British politics which is afoot. Theresa May must have shockingly bad advisors in her Downing Street bunker if nobody there warned her against her cack-handed attempt to mobilise the British people against her fellow MPs. Not only was her appeal totally politically tone-deaf. It was […]
Pressing EU Countries into further integration might suit Macron but plays right into the hands of nationalists
Last week Emmanuel Macron persuaded the editors of Europe’s serious newspapers in 28 member states to carry an article expressing his concerns about the future of Europe. His overt message was a warning about the threat to the European project from growing nationalist sentiment among the voters in many member states. His covert purpose was […]
Can we learn from the Metrolink fiasco as to how things should and should not be done?
The leaking of a decision to scrap the incorporation of the Luas Green Line into the Metrolink project is welcome but raises important questions about the way in which important infrastructural development decisions are made. We were told some months ago that the planning of the project had already cost €170 million when the so-called […]
If you want a document which is part of the UK Constitution, look no further than the Good Friday Agreement
Let’s get a few things straight. There is a cohort of around 50 Tory MPs who want a No-Deal Brexit because they want the UK to deal with the EU and the rest of the world on a WTO terms basis. This aim is completely inconsistent with an All-Ireland economy which is central to the […]