Mark Keenan

Death and wills in Ireland can tear families asunder and sometimes transform them into crazed and pillaging charlatans. Sibling against sibling.

Ardeen, Ballysax, The Curragh, Co Kildare

4 St Joseph’s Terrace, Fairview, Dublin 3

Near Grafton Street, what looks like a bucket of blood is running from the top to the bottom of the high stone steps leading to the entrance of an elegant Georgian building on St Stephen’s Green.

195 Clonliffe Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 3 Asking price: Excess €825,000 Agent: MoveHome (01) 8844690

Of course property prices can’t keep increasing forever. Eventually an affordability threshold is reached.

Ballyarr House, Ramelton, Co Donegal

Before the property bit, let’s start with Donald Trump. Last November, I tested AI’s ability to predict headline election outcomes in two different countries.

A flood of landlord-led home sales is sweeping across Ireland’s regional towns following changes to the Rent Pressure Zone (RPZ) rules.

Rent controls don’t work. They just don’t. Historically they didn’t work in the former Soviet Union and they didn’t work in New York nor in San Francisco.