The Last Post
Matt Cooper: Like in the past, we’ll need foreign capital to move the country forward
As we deal with the issues of this decade, it is extraordinary just how much of what brought us here has been forgotten or misunderstood
It was this newspaper’s first editor, Damien Kiberd, who advised me as a young reporter nearly 35 years ago to always read the commercial property pages of the newspapers. “That’s where you find out what’s going on with power and money in Ireland, who has it and who’s selling because they need money or think the market is about to turn,” I remember him telling me. “Start there before you read anything else, and you’ll ...
