Last month, I wrote about Dublin’s need for perhaps 10,000 new hotel rooms over the next few years for supply to keep up with demand, and how — concerningly — the council seems to be taking the opposite view, refusing over 1,000 rooms in the last year alone. Those outside Dublin could be forgiven for thinking this doesn’t affect them. Indeed, many in Dublin might take the same attitude: that this is a problem for tourists and not for Dublin’s residents. But this is indeed a problem across the country, even if it shows up in different ways. The increasingly…

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