Ireland became the ‘destination of choice’ for prostitutes over the boom years, according to a top crime official.

Irish President Michael D Higgins has declared himself ashamed of the boastful way some Irish people conducted themselves during the Celtic Tiger.

Adamstown, just 15 minutes outside of Dublin, was first developed in the now bygone better times of the Celtic Tiger in order to help alleviate the growing population of Dublin at the time. Now, though, Adamstown, once promised to be a bustling and vibrant suburb, now has only a fraction of what it had initially marketed itself to be.

During the now long gone era of the Celtic Tiger in Ireland, New York was more than attractive to foreign buyers in the real estate market. Now, with the economic downturn that doesn’t appear to be fixing itself anytime soon, Irish investors with property in New York are feeling the pinch.

Rory McIlroy is now officially the best golfer in the world – and loving every minute of his new found status.

Irish President Michael D Higgins has slammed the greed of the Celtic Tiger era and described the boom times as ‘an aberration’.

Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny has been slammed by opposition politicians after claiming that the country went on a ‘mad borrowing’ spree that led to the collapse of the Celtic Tiger.

A mock megalithic concrete structure that was created on Achill Island constructed by Joe McNamara is a "tomb for the Celtic Tiger," revealed one of the builder's supporters.

Michael D. Higgins has vowed to move Ireland away from the nightmare of the Celtic Tiger era and back to emotional and economical prosperity after his election as President.

Could Ireland’s Celtic Tiger could be once purring again, the Wall Street Journal asks. It points out that last Thursday the Irish government announced that the economy experienced growth in the second quarter, showing the first promising signs of emerging from the recession.

It was the epicentre of our Celtic Tiger excess. Each year, like a scene from Apocalypse Now, a swarm of helicopters would arrive, the limos would line up and the sound of champagne corks would pop like a twenty-one gun salute to our greed.

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    Paul Murray’s first novel, An Evening of Long Goodbyes, was shortlisted for the 2003 Whitbreat Award. His second novel, Skippy Dies, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Murray studied English at Trinity College Dublin and received his Master’s in creative writing from the University of East Anglia. Skippy Dies takes place inside and outside the walls of Seabrook College, an established Catholic boarding school in wealthy South Dublin. Daniel “Skippy” Juster, one of its fourteen-year-old students, does die, on page 5 of the prologue. Murray spends the rest of the 661 pages telling us what led up to and what follows Skippy’s death on the floor of Ed’s Doughnut Shop – revealing much about contemporary Irish society along the way.    

Irish emigrants who returned to the west of Ireland during the Celtic Tiger are been asked to contribute to a study by the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.