Celtic tiger officially back!

Ubbquittious

The tiger is back in town! I'm off to the shop for a breakfast roll in a few minutes.

http://www.thejournal.ie/goodbody-domestic-spending-3534813-Aug2017/

Might take a look at this on the way back

https://www.donedeal.ie/boats-for-sale/jetski-seadoo-rxp-x-2010-370hp/15918007

and I'll pass the Toyota dealer for a brang new 172 crew cab Hilux. How do I make sure I benefit from the building boom this time? Should I pack in my job straight away and start loitering around building sites? Soon enough a lad should walk over to me and start handing me wads of cash to push a wheelbarrow around and I'll work my way up from there. Once they see I have a brand new Hilux bought on the PCP there should be no stopping me.

Maybe I should go for a black Nissan Navara instead. In my mind the Navara crew cab is the quintessential celtic tiger vehicle of choice despite the fatal design flaw that caused them to break in half after a few years.

D3V!L

Awesome!! I'm going to max out my credit card by lunch with stuff I don't need.


Any banks offering 100% mortgages yet ? I've just seen a house that I could never afford to pay off.

Wheeliebin30

D3V!L wrote: »

Awesome!! I'm going to max out my credit card by lunch with stuff I don't need.


Any banks offering 100% mortgages yet ? I've just seen a house that I could never afford to pay off.

Just don't forget to blame everyone else except yourself in 5 years time!

Personal responsibility pffft!

Ubbquittious

Wheeliebin30 wrote: »

Just don't forget to blame everyone else except yourself in 5 years time!

Personal responsibility pffft!

Don't worry I'll be at the forefront of political arselicking and I'll be on RTE beside Varadkar or his successor telling people how they all went mad and how it's now time for everyone to cough up a €2,000 annual existence tax to pay back the money I borrowed and frittered away. I reckon Leo's favourite gay bar will be this tiger's version of the FF tent at the Galway races

PistolsAtDawn

The Celtic tiger is back, that was quick. Have we paid off that national debt so?

whisky_galore

Are we all getting ready to party again?

The country's so "awash with money" I feel the sudden urge to throw my change in the bin.

Hooray for Me!

Me! Me! Me!

Ubbquittious

PistolsAtDawn wrote: »

The Celtic tiger is back, that was quick. Have we paid off that national debt so?

No but interest is so low we can easily afford to borrow another 100bn to really properly kickstart this tiger

archer22

PistolsAtDawn wrote: »

The Celtic tiger is back, that was quick. Have we paid off that national debt so?

No just running up another one...but shur who cares paying it all back is the next generations problem

tigger123

Decking.

Wheeliebin30

Patio heaters.

tigger123

tigger123 wrote: »

Decking.

I'll raise you a hot tub.

AtomicHorror

I dunno guys. An Irish person served my coffee this morning. I don't remember that from the good old days.

WoollyRedHat

About bloody time I say, it's all been so mediocre since the crash... vroom vroom vroom, time to get out my meek, order an always-on fountain for the garden and fetch the flamingo's. I have also increased the Christmas party budget tenfold. Going to buy some lavish decorations in Macy's. Go flash or go home.

AtomicHorror wrote: »

I dunno guys. An Irish person served my coffee this morning. I don't remember that from the good old days.

Don't worry old chum, there's a two week notice period.

JonnyM

I hear the government are bring out a new SSIA savings scheme.

mfceiling

I'm in construction and while it's true there's an upturn the wages still haven't gone back up to tiger levels.

It will happen though as the labour shortage is there. I'm getting calls from lads looking me to work for 2009 money but I'm sorry if they want to pay peanuts they may go to the zoo and hire a few monkeys.

razorblunt

Lads, I just bought a house with decking.
In fact, we're looking to extend the decking.


I don't live in Ireland though.

brevity

There is always room for more of Paul Costello's wooden boards.

Fr_Dougal

I hear two coffin ships, that were on their way to Australia, have turned around.

I hope the rest of our stolen generation come home to tell us great tales of these far off lands.

BillyBobBS

Boom and bust, the Irish way.

jbt123

The boom times are about to get boomier again.......

archer22

First thing I am getting is the mandatory SUV with the 'Blonde' with sunglasses on top of her head in the passenger seat

jamesbere

PistolsAtDawn wrote: »

The Celtic tiger is back, that was quick. Have we paid off that national debt so?

Yeah, I paid it this morning. Long weekend wasn't as expensive as I taught and had a few billion left over

TallGlass

I'll believe it when I see that fooooking USC tax taken off me payslip. Till then, there ain't no tiger back.

Mr. teddywinkles

Must be a Dublin thing.

Ubbquittious

TallGlass wrote: »

I'll believe it when I see that fooooking USC tax taken off me payslip. Till then, there ain't no tiger back.

USC will stay as sort of pre-austerity tax to make the existence tax that you'll have to pay annually after the next crash for simply breathing a bit more palatable

SEPT 23 1989

Mr. teddywinkles wrote: »

Must be a Dublin thing.

Dont worry with all this extra money burning holes in our pockets we will need country holiday homes and the locals can earn a few bob cutting the grass polishing the jet skis and building more decking

Trickle down effect

lawred2

Mr. teddywinkles wrote: »

Must be a Dublin thing.

Hi Dad. Get home okay after the weekend?

fepper

Road frontage will be the new buzzword again so,great.

Neon_Lights

I'm leaving the country because people are becoming idiotic. We are the most silly and rude nation in the world when we get a bit of money

I'll come back when there's a recession, everything's cheaper. And get joy out of the tears of the idiots.

seachto7

Fat blokes and women who used to squeeze into designer clothes and sunglasses without getting any advice on whether they clothes actually suited them.

Reminded me of the pig on a spit with the apple in its' mouth.

Same folk would come back from holidays abroad and tell you all about how life is abroad.

Gunmonkey

Dónal wrote: »

I'll raise you a hot tub.

I see your hot tub and raise a patio heater outside my Bulgarian apartment!

andekwarhola

It's taking a lot of us longer than most to grasp the concept of recessions and booms, isn't it?

Neon_Lights

andekwarhola wrote: »

It's taking a lot of us longer than most to grasp the concept of recessions and booms, isn't it?

Lol hiring the same idiots who caused a recession it from an operational level into similar companies is a recipe for disaster.

suicide_circus

TallGlass wrote: »

I'll believe it when I see that fooooking USC tax taken off me payslip. Till then, there ain't no tiger back.

Getting rid of the usc will cost the exchequer in the order of €2.5 billion. But luckily Ireland dosnt need that kind of money for building social housing, healthcare, education and infrastructure.

archer22

BURN THE BONDHOLDERS!! :mad:.....oh oops sorry 6 years too early.

Hollister11

I'm hoping it's back.

I'm 21, finishing college in 9 months and I want to enjoy it then buy a house when it crashes again.

_Kaiser_

TallGlass wrote: »

I'll believe it when I see that fooooking USC tax taken off me payslip. Till then, there ain't no tiger back.

USC won't be going anywhere, despite the soundbites.. it'll simply be absorbed into PAYE/PRSI so your net amount on your payslip won't look any different in reality.

BillyBobBS

Neon_Lights wrote: »

I'm leaving the country because people are becoming idiotic. We are the most silly and rude nation in the world when we get a bit of money

I'll come back when there's a recession, everything's cheaper. And get joy out of the tears of the idiots.

The same idiots that are going to buy into the hype now are the ones that will be on primetime and Joe Duffy complaining about the unfairness of it all when things inevitably go bust in a couple of years. Absolute twat monkeys of the highest order.

BillyBobBS

Neon_Lights wrote: »

Lol hiring the same idiots who caused a recession it from an operational level into similar companies is a recipe for disaster.

Voting the same idiots is as bad. We are all to blame.

alchemist33

I don't believe the Tiger is back for a minute. Every day I see young wans about town with rips and holes in their jeans. If people can't even afford patches -- never mind new jeans -- how can the recession be over?

SEPT 23 1989

BillyBobBS wrote: »

The same idiots that are going to buy into the hype now are the ones that will be on primetime and Joe Duffy complaining about the unfairness of it all when things inevitably go bust in a couple of years. Absolute twat monkeys of the highest order.

They have no excuses this time and I will no sympathy for them

Rjd2

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

They have no excuses this time and I will no sympathy for them

A lot of people are been brainwashed into believing the government and banks are to blame for every flaw in there life. I am no fan of either, but some personal responsibility would be nice. Its nearly as tedious as listening to the Brits blaming immigration for everything.

jimgoose

It seems this latest bout of it in Dublin is partly driven by the prospect of Brexit. There seems to be a lot of people banking on the Brits not coming to their senses. :pac:

_Kaiser_

BillyBobBS wrote: »

Voting the same idiots is as bad. We are all to blame.

I'd agree but we don't have great choices.. FF/FG (not much difference really, except one is more populist and the other more arrogant), SF (who think people here care about Northern Ireland as a key issue), LAB (who proved to be FG-lite last time so they could get into power), or the alphabet soup of left-wingers and one-issue "Independents" who are often FF/FG cast-offs anyway.

But, seeing as we have (at EU/global level) actually fixed nothing in terms of our political and financial system, and seeing as how our economy is entirely at the mercy of "the market", the next crash is inevitable and will be much harder.

BillyBobBS

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

They have no excuses this time and I will no sympathy for them

If you are a PAYE worker you might not have sympathy but you sure as hell will pay for them.

_Kaiser_

jimgoose wrote: »

It seems this latest bout of it in Dublin is partly driven by the prospect of Brexit. There seems to be a lot of people banking on the Brits not coming to their senses. :pac:

The EU is far from stable though either.. more countries wanting to leave, growing distrust and cynicism from the electorate about the whole idea (resulting in several close elections already and of course Brexit) and the lack of transparency or accountability, and of course things like the migration situation and terror attacks don't help.

As I've said before, it should have stayed in it's previous EEC format. It's when the leaders started getting political notions that the wheels started to come off.

jimgoose

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

...it should have stayed in it's previous EEC format. It's when the leaders started getting political notions that the wheels started to come off.

You're not wrong.

Fr_Dougal

Hollister11 wrote: »

I'm hoping it's back.

I'm 21, finishing college in 9 months and I want to enjoy it then buy a house when it crashes again.

You had better hurry up and save. When the last crash happened, the banks didn't give out mortgages. It's only in the last couple of years that they started lending properly again.

biko