Niall O’Connor remembers what the Irish grocery market was like 25 years ago, when German discounters had yet to become a regular stop-off for shoppers here.
The pausing of construction work at a high-profile Dublin docklands site of 700 high-end apartments, where groundworks had been underway, is seen as just the most public example of the collapse of the apartment building sector in Ireland.
Bank of Ireland and other lenders are asking mortgage applicants employed by tech giants to provide letters from their employer to say their jobs are not at risk from the wave of recent layoffs hitting the sector.
