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Richard Cantillon

Reporter · IE

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Richard Cantillon

    The slow death of the buy-to-let mortgage (opens the original)

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    Back in the day it was seen as a foolproof way to amass wealth. Now it’s a relic of the Celtic Tiger era. The buy-to-let mortgage turbocharged Ireland’s property market in the late 1990s and 2000s. When the market soured, these mortgages had the highest rate of arrears and became the product most associated with loose lending practices. In 2012, there were about 150,000 buy-to-let mortgage accounts in the State. By the second quarter of this year, that number had dropped to 44,729 – a fall

  2. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Richard Cantillon

    Mixed messages unhelpful on hitting climate targets (opens the original)

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    The Green Party may no longer be in government, but taking steps to address climate change and meet targets set for the State by the European Union still ranks high among the stated priorities of the ruling Coalition. Climate is mentioned 48 times in the 162-page programme for government, shy of education, housing and health but in advance of tourism, for instance, a sector long seen as key for the indigenous economy. The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland is targeting people aggressively w

  3. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Richard Cantillon

    What is behind the slowdown in Ireland’s property prices? (opens the original)

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    Figures from two reports on Monday confirmed a significant cooling of the property market. Daft.ie’s quarterly report said asking prices in the three months to September rose by 3 per cent, barely half the rate they were rising by 12 months previously. Figures from the property price register show that sale prices actually agreed are cooling even more dramatically – up just 0.8 per cent on this time last year, which is the lowest rate of growth in six years and just one-tenth of the pace rep

  4. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Richard Cantillon

    Ires’s former big Canadian shareholders miss payday after failed campaign to sell (opens the original)

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    As investors in Ires Reit digest news of a €726.7 million takeover proposal for the company, they probably won’t spare much thought for two pesky Canadian shareholders who, a few years ago, took part in a campaign urging the previous board to sell or break up the company. Toronto-based Vision Capital, then a 5 per cent shareholder, sent a frisson through the Dublin stock market in April 2023 when it went public with a list of grievances after the group refused to listen to its private calls

  5. Article · Sep 27, 2026 · Richard Cantillon

    We need more data on data centres, not spin (opens the original)

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    Wherever you fall on the spectrum of opinions about data centres, it is undeniable that the Government is doing a troubling amount of PR on behalf of global tech and AI giants. A case in point is the now-notorious KPMG report published this summer and commissioned by the Department of Enterprise. Earlier this week, a group of Irish academics published their own research into the data centre sector in Ireland, using publicly available data to draw their conclusions. Perhaps the salient point of t

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