Playing politics not so easy for the ‘Wets’ in our Government

I can’t remember the Barber Boom, but I do remember our last building boom getting boomier, writes Gerard Howlin

Paschal Donohoe now reprises Anthony Barber, Ted Heath’s chancellor of the exchequer, 1970-74. Not many have any cause to remember the Barber Boom, but it was the last joyride before the oil crisis and “stagflation” of the 1970s.