My online course on the Economics of the Property Market is back and we're looking forward to having lots of you on it in 2021! See link (and next tweet) for more details - and if you sign up, the discount code twtr2021 will get you a reduced rate...

@mcmnorris @Mickbyrne101 Had the same thought! My understanding was that at least one of the parties gave a commitment to review, not a commitment to keep.

@will_owen9 @oshea_hot I'm sorry you had to reply to this!

@AnMailleach Trying to follow the link between the news story and your tweet. There's an externality nature to public interest journalism that the market will never capture, which provides a strong rationale for taxpayer funding of public interest journalism. Is this not getting at that?

Interesting, given Irish origin myths, that the genetic distance to the Basque people is so great! (Relative proximity to Ukrainians and Belarussians a product of Viking/Varangian wanderings?)

@TheLooseH Head over to Bl**Sky. It's not perfect but it's a lot better than this!

@MauWhitfield @CRichardsonTel While I have you, what's going on with Stormers at the moment? Feels like they have really slipped the last 18 months or so. (I've jinxed that now for the weekend - they'll beat Leinster in Dublin!)

@nameonthegrave @russellkeating @jim_demps The Aviva has a capacity of 52,000! South African teams aside, that's more than twice a 'normal' URC stadium - Scotstoun and Hive Stadium are below 8,000, for example.

@MauWhitfield @CRichardsonTel Nice list! Out of curiosity, which Leinster team made it for you: 2009-2013, the late 2010s one (Lancaster) or the mid-2020s one (Nienaber)?

@nameonthegrave @russellkeating @jim_demps Yes but they still need to get the fans to turn up! That's the key point. As the experience of other provinces suggests, that's not a given.

@LevyAntoine Genuine lol here

Thrilled to have received a Research Ally award from @Researchirel - delighted to be able to help people do their research, including by serving as @TRiSSTCD Director (even if only for a few more months)!

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RT @Sam_Dumitriu: NEW STUDY on the impact of YIMBY reforms in New Zealand. Lower Hutt in Wellington made it much easier to get permission…

Delighted to share that Jane Humphries is this year's Alice Murray Distinguished Scholar, an award given annually by @ceph_ie to someone who has made a major contribution to economic history. Her talk (27 Feb) will be on the econ-hist of care - more below.

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@boscomcnamigles Underlying need (if there were no deficit) is something like 50,000 a year to mid-century. If a deficit of 300k existed as of now, then it would be great to target eliminating that in six years. I don't think the system (incl policy/infra) has that capacity though.

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RT @NJCummins: How long did it take the massive waves of Irish migrants to economically integrate into England over the past two centuries?…

@PlanNetIreland Ah this canard! Supply is about (rental) price relative to cost, not rents relative to what rents were or will be. Just yesterday, I wrote a piece that includes one good example of, in your words, "letting the market rip". Can you guess when supply kicked in? And when it failed?