"average Dublin house prices should fall to ‘the €300,000 mark" according to Many Lou McD.

Quote of the year right here

when my co workers are doing their xmas shopping in New York again, then we can talk about a recovery.

Absolutely incredible.

What Mary Lou will do the to Irish economy will make Liz Truss look like a winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics

I can only say to you that you sound like you got everything you wanted when a kid ....that in my view is never a good way to start out in life. Yes, it's fun, etc but look where it's got you...wanting more, and more .

A lot of the CG and Moncler clothing are copies, fakes...because a generation want a lifestyle and clothing they cannot afford.

I take it you are being slightly tongue-in-cheek? However your point still stands in a way. That's what was base level normal during your/our formative years. One cannot really rewire ones brain and say tell it "oh that wasn't sustainable". One can realise that it wasn't however there's no getting around one feeling worse off/things not being as good as they used to be.

Personally we were a single income family with Dad in the civil service and being debt adverse there was no major boom in our house. Also a lot of the people doing these things were really not actually wealthy in the true sense of the word, just running around on borrowed money. Actually getting poorer while the real wealth got wealthier.

And? Are you saying because it’s in Dublin it’s better than a cert he would have got from Letterkenny?

No. I'm saying he went to college and got in through the cao system. Just pointing out that he didn't do a national cert to get into college. That's all.

He is still grossly under qualified to be the Minister for Finance

Most of the Armani and Canada Goose you see are fake clothes which are easily acquired now

Ebay, Ali express etc is easily available to everyone now as people on the majority have easy and fast access to the internet

Not sure why you think only 17 year olds drove 5 year old cars. That’s just a baffling statement

The going to New York for Christmas shopping was few and far between. Mostly discussed because the odd person did and it was blown out of proportion because Irish people could never even contemplate doing it before, plus they never considered that someone might have saved for 2 years to do that.

New York for Christmas shopping ✅

Designer clothes favoured by skangers ✅

Mortified to drive a car older than 5 years ✅

Day to day living nearly €2 k per month ✅

Can buy own home ❌

I'd say SF could even figure out the solution here.

Depends on what you think are "Working class people"

99% of the people I knew working during the Celtic Tiger never went to New York to do Christmas shopping.

I think the poster is hoping for a free house while they continue to spend above their means

At this stage it's starting to become a piss take and ruining the thread. None of this makes any sense, one minute they are claiming they can't buy an apartment. The next they are heading to New York to do shopping

If we increase housing output from 33k to 50k or even 75k, then the economy would be growing, as every builder would be flat out.

A massive increase in house-building is great as a soundbite but;

a) Every builder is flat out already. All that would happen is that they'd be charging even more for the same work. So where are the tradespeople to build these houses? I don't see SF with any plan for huge influxes of non-EU construction workers. Funny that.

b) if you're trying to drive down the price of a house, then the state has to massively subsidize the cost of construction. That means more taxes for those of us who work, which drives down economic activity and makes Ireland less attractive to inward investment. That will more than cancel out the (temporary) economic growth from construction. Or it means enormous borrowing, or both.

I'm delighted Mary Lou threw this glib shite out there, maybe people might stop listening to the easy answers being peddled and actually analyze if these lads have any actual plan. Spoiler: they don't.

You will never afford a 40k deposit if you keep spending 300 on a flight.

As I advised already you should discuss with a financial adviser, the money you spent on the flight + shopping will cover it and will be the best advice you will ever get

Also a reminder: the only concrete plan SF have is a referendum on a united Ireland. If successful, that will be the biggest hit to our economy in any of our lifetimes, it will absolutely dwarf the bailout and austerity period.

If you really want your free house, you might think about that.

No, and I accept that 75k is probably impossible.

I sense that SF want office/hotel construction to fall, and that capacity to move to residential.

Would that make much difference?