One of the courses I teach this summer explores the future of the Irish economy. A sample of today's RTE headlines indicates the breath and depth of current economic difficulties.(See here, here, and here - for example.)
This story on falling prices for hotel rooms caught my attention. It follows a previous report that estimates a surplus of 15,000 hotel rooms in the Irish market. This is good news for Irish visitors...but it paints a pretty bleak picture of at least one key economic sector.
