It’s commonly thought that 2008 is not going to be a good year for the Irish construction industry. House building in particular is set to struggle, with new house completions expected to fall short of half the total of 90,000 homes built in 2006, when the housing market reached the dizziest of heights. This grim outlook is echoed in the prospects for the Irish economy as a whole – a perhaps

It’s commonly thought that 2008 is not going to be a good year for the Irish construction industry. House building in particular is set to struggle, with new house completions expected to fall short of half the total of 90,000 homes built in 2006, when the housing market reached the dizziest of heights. This grim outlook is echoed in the prospects for the Irish economy as a whole – a perhaps