Johnny Ronan became known as 'the Buccaneer' as he bought himself a €640,000 Maybach car to go with his blue Hummer and the pink palazzo expression of new wealth that Dublin wags dubbed 'Saddam's Palace'.
Just as Adam Maguire prepares to release his first book, The Bailout Babies, the very generation he is writing about appear to have been bestowed with their first major anthem. CMAT's Euro-Country reflects on the 2008 financial crash, from a child's perspective, and features the lyrics All the big boys/All the Berties/All the envelopes/Yeah, they hurt me/I was 12 when the das started killing themselves all around me.
The rise in first-time buyer mortgage drawdowns last year surpasses the 2007 peak, reflecting a resurgence in the housing market reminiscent of the Celtic Tiger era.
