The Irish Times

In Dublin's transformed city centre, young professionals are stuffed into fancy restaurants and bars and mortgaged up to their eyeballs to buy apartments the size of dog-kennels. That's the way of global cities, sociologist Saskia Sassen tells Victoria White The city she describes is one you will recognise. Vast, state-of-the-art offices soar into the sky on reclaimed docklands, and penthouse apartments are auctioned off at higher and higher prices to very well-paid executives who have children later and later in life.