Dara Turnbull
@daraturnbull.bsky.social
🇮🇪Irish housing economist, living in Lille🇫🇷.
Research Coordinator @housingeurope.bsky.social in Brussels🇧🇪.
A home is a need, not a want #HousingforAll
Research Coordinator @housingeurope.bsky.social in Brussels🇧🇪.
A home is a need, not a want #HousingforAll
2/2: ...in fact the data prove that Irish people actually have a below average standard of living, in no small part due to them being effectively neglected by the state. Ireland is a low tax, low public investment country and it is not serving its people well in terms of living standards!
June 20, 2025 at 9:58 AM
2/2: ...in fact the data prove that Irish people actually have a below average standard of living, in no small part due to them being effectively neglected by the state. Ireland is a low tax, low public investment country and it is not serving its people well in terms of living standards!
#Ireland 🇮🇪 is once again the worst performer in the EU when it comes to use of renewables in heating and cooling. This news comes in the same week as the @fiscalcouncil.bsky.social warned that the state could face up to €26.4 billion in costs related to missing various climate targets. I despair.
March 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
#Ireland 🇮🇪 is once again the worst performer in the EU when it comes to use of renewables in heating and cooling. This news comes in the same week as the @fiscalcouncil.bsky.social warned that the state could face up to €26.4 billion in costs related to missing various climate targets. I despair.
Something weird going on with 🇮🇪 house prices. Observable transactions outside Dublin align perfectly with hedonic regressions. But in Dublin, the average price of what is actually sold is way off the hedonic price. Perhaps smaller, less expensive properties are simply not coming to market?
February 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Something weird going on with 🇮🇪 house prices. Observable transactions outside Dublin align perfectly with hedonic regressions. But in Dublin, the average price of what is actually sold is way off the hedonic price. Perhaps smaller, less expensive properties are simply not coming to market?
Very interesting exchange with Google's Gemini AI. It is happy to help me with assistance in French, but not in Arabic. It claims not to have the ability to even tell me how to say 'hello' in Arabic, due to vague 'cultural nuances' and an apparent desire not to give me incorrect information. WTF?
December 9, 2024 at 9:37 AM
Very interesting exchange with Google's Gemini AI. It is happy to help me with assistance in French, but not in Arabic. It claims not to have the ability to even tell me how to say 'hello' in Arabic, due to vague 'cultural nuances' and an apparent desire not to give me incorrect information. WTF?
Fascinating results from the latest ECB Consumer Survey. Only one in five households have seen a growth in real incomes in the past year! The cost of living crisis is far from over on this basis...
www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/economic...
www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/economic...
January 16, 2024 at 7:40 AM
Fascinating results from the latest ECB Consumer Survey. Only one in five households have seen a growth in real incomes in the past year! The cost of living crisis is far from over on this basis...
www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/economic...
www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/economic...
Ireland's national stats 🇮🇪 agency has released a new special review of mortgage affordability for the 2020-2023 period. It shows that on average, mortgage repayments are "affordable". However, low-income households face a very significant repayment burden, of over 40%
www.cso.ie/en/releasesa...
www.cso.ie/en/releasesa...
December 13, 2023 at 9:38 AM
Ireland's national stats 🇮🇪 agency has released a new special review of mortgage affordability for the 2020-2023 period. It shows that on average, mortgage repayments are "affordable". However, low-income households face a very significant repayment burden, of over 40%
www.cso.ie/en/releasesa...
www.cso.ie/en/releasesa...
I have been on here for a few days now, and I haven't seen any keyboard warriors, ignorant racists, or bad take merchants. I'm not used to this "civil discours". Should I be suspicious?
November 27, 2023 at 9:35 PM
I have been on here for a few days now, and I haven't seen any keyboard warriors, ignorant racists, or bad take merchants. I'm not used to this "civil discours". Should I be suspicious?