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.
Ireland and Leinster star Robbie Henshaw has plenty of rugby left to play but that has not stopped him turning his attention to life after he steps away from elite professional sport.
