Dublin rents are a rip-off and are still rising

On December 2013 An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, made his public announcement that we as a nation were now out of debt, but still had a long way to go due to three years of scrimping budget cuts and much tightening of belts.

The result of this was that the landlords of Dublin City and County took this as a sign to mean charge whatever you want for your downtrodden or otherwise rented properties. In Cork, Limerick, Galway and most other areas of the country rents have remained much the same, or are at least lower, than in Dublin.

Rents in Dublin, particularly on the northside, for properties better suited to sheltering cattle than housing persons, rose by 100%. Yes, these are studio apartments but even if you make a comparison on houses for rent throughout Ireland we see a huge difference.