Person: Jerome Casey

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Construction worries - Housing fear may be well founded

FOR some time, economists have warned of an imminent downturn in Ireland’s housing boom. Depending on the guru, predictions have ranged from a flattening of the market to a tailspin, ending in a crash landing.

Tue, 22 May, 2007

Grant aid to firms ‘may be waste of cash’

ENTERPRISE Ireland, Shannon Development and IDA Ireland could be wasting billions of taxpayers’ money paying grant assistance to companies, research carried out for the Economic and Social Research Institute suggests.

Fri, 01 Jul, 2005

Site costs rocket from 15% to 45% of house price

SITE costs have spiralled from between 10% and 15% of the overall house price before the boom, to anything from 40% to 45% today.

Sat, 22 Nov, 2003

Bertie will save us at the Árd Fheis but he’ll sell us out in the Dáil

“THE land of Ireland is for the people of Ireland — all the people of Ireland.” That’s what our beloved Taoiseach said, in his less than stirring speech to the Árd Fheis on Saturday night.

Tue, 14 Oct, 2003

Gilmore has a go at ‘rip-off’ developers

LABOUR Party spokesman on the environment, Eamon Gilmore, has hit out at the rip-off profits being made on housing development by a clique of speculators.

Tue, 02 Sep, 2003