As research suggests the Northern Powerhouse is anything but, what has the north got to do to close the gap with the thriving south east, asks Dougal Paver. This blog doesn’t do gloom – and it ill-behoves me to start the week with anything but visions of sunlit uplands, much less share caution. So you will forgive me the premise […]
October, 2015
What price a Dublin metro?
Ireland’s politicians have kicked the can down the road once again with news that the Dublin metro is to be shelved. The city’s creaking public transport system can barely cope and with the population surging it won’t end well, predicts Dougal Paver. I’ve blogged before about Dublin’s unsatisfactory patchwork of public transport provision. For a city of its wealth and size the absence of […]
Unaffordable London, mapped
We love a good map here at Merrion and the one above showing London rentals by tube stop tickled our fancy. All credit to the chaps at Thrillist.com for the analysis, not that the readers of the Daily Mail were impressed – check out their comments below the paper’s story, the gist of which is that they think the rents quoted […]