Author Archives: Aaron McAllorum

Rent is dead money.

You don’t even need money to buy property these days.

This is a good time to invest.

It’s always a good time to buy.

Ireland is different.

We’re punching above our weight.

We are where we are.

This is a new paradigm.

The fundamentals of the economy are sound.

There will be a soft landing.

Our Irishness gives us a distinct selling point.

We’re in a period of adjustment.

This is not about apportioning blame.

We all lost the run of ourselves.

My conscience is a million per cent clear.

The economy has turned the corner.

We need to stop talking the economy down.

It’s all the media/Lehmans’/cheap-shot commentators’/ Twitter’s fault.

At least we’re not Iceland.

At least we’re not Spain.

At least we’re not Greece.

While we are where we are, at least we’re not where we were . . .


(Jennifer O’Connell,  Sunday Business Post)

Balinteer Drive, Dublin 6

Had to happen.

[UPDATE: Google’s ass-censoring system kicks in. The above pic is now the only proof that the moon-bombing ever happened.]

[FURTHER UPDATE: Second moon-bombing detected. See comments]

(Via Ray Darcy Today FM)

UPDATE: Yury is among the top 3,000 players in the world.

Cowen-a-like Yury Rochev winning a chess title in Galway in 2008.

He used the classic Lake Ponchartrain opening move: White moves its king pawn two spaces forward which sets up centre board control and frees the queen and then the king gets bladdered.