It’s Sunday morning so, if you are following the relevant characters, you’ll be aware the usual Sunday morning economics debate has sprung up between our tweeting economists. I made a promise after the last time that I wouldn’t get involved.
Yesterday I had a long conversation with a friend about an apartment in Santry. Here’s why. [...]
Last year, we had about 10 snow days.
I have friends living in the Alps who laugh in the face of 10 snow days. I have friends who laugh in the face of -10 C temperatures. But I live in Ireland and on average, the main cities get a trashing from the cold once every 30 [...]
There are none. And because of David Norris’s campaign problems (for serious want of a better description) we aren’t getting much in the way of a debate about how we want Mother Ireland to grow. No vision. No future. Nothing.
I’m very disappointed. I realise that the role of President of Ireland is largely ceremonial and [...]
I’m starting to think we don’t. I saw an ad for a 2 bed house just down the road from me. They wanted 1000E per month.
It’s not a big house, it doesn’t have a private garden and to my knowledge, based on what I know of the estate, it doesn’t have private parking either. It’s [...]
This from the Irish Times today.
Why are we so bad at languages? There’s no mystery there. Most students in Ireland take up a foreign language for the first time when they enter secondary school at age 12 or 13; by this stage most of their counterparts in other EU countries are already [...]
There are times I hate Ireland and today is actually one of them. It’s the assumption that when you go out to meet people, it’s normal that they’ll write off half the following day because you stay until some crazy hour.
I can remember, some years ago, going to a hen party and bailing at around [...]
TEMPORARY EDIT: If you are here because you googled either Morgan Kelly or Constantin Kurdgiev, welcome. I am not an economist. I just have an opinion, like everyone else. In the meantime, make some tea. Mostly I talk about crochet and books on here. And occasionally music.
Three of my strawberry plants are flowering. I [...]
I didn’t watch it. I didn’t need an excuse to avoid it because I was at work and had other things to be doing at the time.
When I was driving home, however, I noticed one positive effect it had on life here in Ireland. It got economic chaos, suicide, murder, gangland war and general bad [...]
Breakfast for two. Very quiet at the time. Typically for ongoing business you’d assume this is not great but I@m not complaining. Quiet breakfast. I hope it does well for lunch and onwards.
We both had pancakes – mine came swimming in maple syrup – and smoothies – which were top notch smoothies. Terrific breakfast. Way [...]