One of the biggest obstacles in trying to address what has been accurately characterised by government as the housing emergency is the lack of reliable and valid data.
With yet another EuroMillions winning ticket sold in Ireland recently (giving some indication as to how disproportionately much we are gambling per capita), our media went into overdrive with advice on how to spend the estimated €88m fortune.
The new American President is post-science just as he is post-truth. His number one environmental priority is to cancel the Paris Climate Agreement, not uncoincidentally the number one environmental priority for environmentalists.
€260m has been spent on the Limerick Regeneration programme since its inception in 2008. After a bad start a reasonable effort is now underway but new build is far less than intended.