Ireland – its economy, its society, its policy system and its housing market – is still living in the shadow of the Celtic Tiger, a bubble that burst almost 20 years ago.  Human systems are, of course, slow-moving, and thus it makes sense that something now will bear a strong resemblance to its predecessor from two decades ago. Twenty years on But, just focusing on the housing market in Ireland, that is an incredible statistic. Do we think, for example, that the housing market of the early 2000s was still in thrall to what happened in the early 1980s? If…

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