Time to raze the unfinished relics of the building boom

Ireland is about to witness a US-style degeneration of half- built housing schemes into ghost estates, says Juno McEnroe.

FORMER US President Thomas Jefferson once said that small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

In Ireland this phrase rang true during the boom with the first-time buyers and start-up investors who were encouraged to throw their cash into property.