"average Dublin house prices should fall to ‘the €300,000 mark" according to Many Lou McD.

Point taken.

In terms of 'older generation cant relate'....

Back then, women basically couldnt work, couldnt build a career, had to stop working when they got married. How did that leave them in the mortgage market?

I remember working delivering carpets with a lad who told me that it was his first job back, that he'd been out of work for 9 years before that. Married guy, mid-30s, very able. This was early 90s. We were on 30 quid a day.

There was a short 'goldilocks' window in the late 90s with affordable housing, low interest rates and moderate unemployment. For maybe 7 years or so. Apart from that, we've been between extremesof unemployment and unattainable housing.

No one is saying you have it easy, but if you think current generations have it harder - personally I wouldnt be going back.....

I lived in Newbridge and worked in Phibsborough when compaq were there as it was cheaper to rent there and my then girlfriend worked in Kildare, no luas at the time and my journey was less than 1hr 15m each way.

Also the times of each train journey are available on the IE website

There is no housing crisis, you are all correct. I should now sacrifice all pleasures for 4 years to save the 40k needed to live in Newbridge,

To be honest Id much rather emigrate. Of course if this country had a system in place for reitred renters to be able to remain in their homes, ie a functional long term rental market, I wouldn't have to contemplate moving to rural Ireland or leaving Ireland all together

It's impossible to get average prices down to 300,000 without a crash or recession.

I could say "All houses will be a fiver and pints 10c if you vote for me". It's complete nonsense which will only appeal to morons.

They obviously care.

They've been throwing money at the problem for a few years now.

If it's any comfort, I'm pretty certain we've hit an equilibrium in Dublin. So wages will rise faster than rents or house prices.

I think the rest of the country will follow in a year or so.

We are not in a good position. The country is a nightmare for young people. This is like that 2016 slogan that backfired, Keep the recovery going. WE'VE NOT FELT A RECOVERY. The last time things felt normal was in 2008 and I was still a teenager. The life I grew up with is gone for working class people. Thats why young people are not supporting Fianna Fail or Fine Gael. But you ignore this. You never address the issues

I grew up in the Celtic Tiger. New cars, everyone buying homes, holiday homes etc. You need to realise thats normal for my generation and we cant have the lifestyle we grow up having as normal. We cant even own a decent house

I didn't define it by anything.

The only way to get prices to drop that far is to drastically reduce demand, which would only happen in a crash or some other catastrophe.

You can increase supply all you want, but it's impossible to hit that target.

You're describing a fantasy. This was a huge bubble created by FF.