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The Irish construction sector is experiencing a fundamental shift that deserves far more attention than it's currently receiving. After years of post-pandemic recovery and ambitious national housing targets, we're now witnessing a slowdown driven not by falling demand — demand remains exceptionally strong — but by something far more problematic: the economics of development are breaking down.

Questions of labour, and its conditions, are moving into the centre of the political discussion again, driven by the rise of the so-called 'gig economy' - the notion that the sort of 'side-gig' job, long being used by many to supplement regular incomes, might instead become a mainstay of the economy.

THE AVERAGE commentator on an Irish internet political discussion forum holds two opinions. First: that, unlike the French or the Greeks, the Irish will never stand up and say no.