There is a brilliant scene in the first episode of the latest series of smash HBO TV series Succession. In it, Connor, perhaps the most stupid of the adult children of the media billionaire Logan Roy, is running for US president.
On a sunny Thursday in spring I meet Brown Thomas Arnotts managing director Donald McDonald inspecting a small purple handbag on display in the centre of Brown Thomas’ flagship department store on Grafton Street in Dublin.
Around 65,000 new residential units are tied up within planning appeals, judicial reviews, and Strategic Housing Developments processes, according to new data from Construction Information Services (CIS), a service that provides information for the sector.