Edel Coffey: Every person in this country should have access to emotional security 

Nobel laureate economist Robert Schiller has posited that the hit of ‘emotional security’ we get from buying and owning our own homes in uncertain times is the thing that is giving the property market its buoyancy

I stood there looking at books but I couldn’t focus. I couldn’t think of anything but the man outside. Picture: Ray Ryan

Last week, I stopped to give a homeless man some money. 

I didn’t have much cash in my purse. Nobody carries cash anymore, not since the pandemic changed our relationship with money to a relationship with tapping, but I gave him what little I had.