Cranes and more cranes. It would be good to think they are all building homes given that the city is in a long-term housing crisis, but a lot of them are completing new office complexes, although the city has lots of new, empty, glass tower blocks.
Just take a look at Smithfield where the rectangle has been completed with odd-looking glass towers — many sitting empty since completion and where the most common price on office rental in the area is “negotiable”. Over a quarter of all vacant buildings in Ireland are in the capital with some 12,000 empty homes and commercial properties.