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.