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There is something quietly absurd happening in Irish accommodation right now. Across the west of Ireland, residential properties are hosting tourists on Airbnb while hotel beds in regional towns are occupied by long-term residential placements, including emergency and refugee accommodation. Houses built for families are full of visitors. Hotels built for visitors are, in many cases, no longer available to them. We have inverted the entire logic of how accommodation is supposed to work.

“IN England, justice is open to all—like the Ritz Hotel.” This pithy quote, attributed to Victorian-era judge Sir James Mathew, was made to highlight the fact that the law and the Ritz were open to all in theory but, in practice, only the rich could afford them. The quote, often misattributed to Mathew’s compatriot George Bernard Shaw, seems appropriate as the current controversy surrounding our criminal legal aid system – which saw criminal practitioners strike in Tuam Court last Tuesday – rolls on.