Interview
Darragh O’Brien on housing goals, EU commissioner job and why a Sinn Féin coalition is ‘incompatible’
The housing minister and Fianna Fáil director of elections talks about how he wants the property market to play out and his own party’s future in power
Darragh O’Brien quickly crosses a busy stretch of the Coast Road through Malahide village as the oncoming traffic stops in time, avoiding the need for a by-election in the housing minister’s Dublin Fingal constituency.
Wrapped in a navy trenchcoat, the Fianna Fáil TD is on home soil, waving to walkers braving a cold December afternoon.
He points across the bay to three cranes rising above a new housing development, which he said shows the “real ...
