Back in the days that I was in college doing a module on translation technology, one of our lecturers talked about a concept of the “green dream”, particularly with respect to translators; how being connected to data communications service would make it possible for you/anyone to export translation services to anywhere in the world because [...]

For various reasons I am looking at going back to college next autumn. In fact, the whole college thing has been under consideration for three or four months but the bastardisation of semesterisation in Irish colleges means that on average, intake is in autumn and that is it. This is in contrast to Germany where [...]

Ronan Lyons has a piece on his blog which is worth a read even though it’s not really anything majorly new in terms of what anyone with an interest in the economic well-being of Ireland should be aware of. He has pointed out that we’re losing a generation of young men to unemployment and education.
The [...]

One of the things which annoys me most about the current crisis is that the only way I can really get through it personally is to depend on the old reliable of “life goes on”.
It’s just I’m concerned at what’s going to happen before life goes on. I’m actually getting to the stage where I [...]

Down. Basically, down. How far down is the problem. I don’t know. And over what time frame, difficult.
But

falling incomes
general CPI deflation
increased property supply
increasing tax burden
increasing interest rates
increasing unemployment
collapse in inward migration
increase in net emigration

This suggests downwards in the short term.
On the other hand

government action by way of moratoria on repossession proceedings
government action on properties securing [...]