How did Roscommon’s property market fare in 2008, compared to Limerick’s? Why? For some thoughts on the above, and on South County Dublin, Cork City and Kilkenny, as a representative smattering of the regional tidbits in the latest Daft Report, you can catch a five minute or so interview on January 15′s Ireland AM on [...]
The Humpty Dumpty threat: Will the euro fall apart?
Ricky Gervais has a very funny sketch about how ludicrous the children’s rhyme, Humpty Dumpty, is. In particular, employing horses, who don’t even have thumbs let alone opposable ones, to put him back together again. Actually, it’s so good, I’m going to embed it here: [youtube=http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hYytaZ06Hco] Anyway, spurious introduction aside, apparently according to the Financial [...]
Ireland: the Britney Spears economy? The Daft Report (2008 in review)
This is an unabridged version of my commentary on the latest daft.ie report (2008 in review), which is available at daft.ie/report. When we look back at 2008 in a few years time, I think it’s fair to say we will regard it as the annus horribilis for Ireland’s property market. In late 2006, we issued [...]
Hair of the dog: With rents fallings, ECB cuts the only thing likely to drag yields above borrowing cost
The third and final (for 2008 anyway) instalment in the visualizations of Ireland’s property market takes a different look again to my recent posts on trends in prices and stock. Building on the measure of affordability on page 10 of each daft.ie rental report and a suggestion made on thepropertypin.com, it measures the gap between [...]
Ireland’s property overhang: Homeowners in Roscommon, Cavan and Leitrim beware
Last week, I posted a visualization of changes in asking prices for Irish property, since 2006, using the IBM Manyeyes tool. It’s proved very popular, not least with the crowd on thepropertypin.com. I’ve been happy to take suggestions on what’s the most important thing to be mapping and one suggestion – which ties in nicely [...]
Brrr… Sure ’tis cold in Sligo: A heat-map of Ireland’s property prices since early 2007
As those who’ve checked out/had to put up with my many word clouds on various different topics from Wicklow genealogy to Barack Obama will testify, I’m always looking for new ways to present data and information. For those with similar interests, a useful tool in that regard is Manyeyes, a free data visualization service offered [...]
The origins of the Beausang surname I – French Revolution? Try East Cork
All of four months ago – seems about a quarter that long ago – I posted about my Cork Smiddy and Beausang roots. Judging from some of the search terms that direct to my blog, it seems there’s a good bit of demand out there for the Beausang part in particular. So, I’ve decided to [...]
400 years on: Forget Southfork & Dallas, for family infighting check out the O'Doynes of the 1600s
Recently, inspired by Irish Culture Night, I bought a copy of the O’Doyne manuscript, published by the Irish Manuscripts Commission in the early 1980s. The manuscript itself is in Marsh’s Library, Ireland’s oldest public library, and is dominated by documents relating to the lengthy legal battle between Charles O’Doyne (Cathaoir Ă“ Duinn) and his older [...]
The genealogy-grammar paradox & Obama's endorsement of T&E Plumbing (or maybe it's the other way around)
The Huffington Post has an excellent collection of pictures from around the world, in response to the outcome of the US election – for more check out Election Day Around The World (PHOTOS). I had to laugh at one in particular, the one from an hour down the road, Moneygall, County Offaly. The first thing [...]
Breadcrumb history gets underway: So, who was "Bully" Egan?
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post about Dublin in the 1780s. While the whole idea of a suburb called ‘Hell’ was what got me writing, references to characters long since gone, such as “Bully” Egan and Yelverton, got me thinking: ‘What do we know about these guys? Can we bring them guys [...]
