Hundreds of repossessed homes in Ireland to be sold by auction

[Mich the Tester]

Is the UK the only country in the world to have had a property boom and no crash?

No. Holland is still waiting for the inevitable housing crash too.

[The_Equalizer]

You can pay for them with potatoes ?

I'll speak to the girlfriend's mortgage lender to see if potato payment is okay by them.

Northern Ireland didn't experience the boom and bust of the late 80s/early 90s; too busy kicking the tulip out of each other. I therefore concluded that they truly believed all the hype this time round. The fact that 75%-ish of the GDP is down to the public sector seemed to matter not.