Clare Byrne

Now you could argue it is corporation tax.

But is the country not in a much more resilient place now, Joan?

So Dan when it comes to housing that is the big problem that we have now as Joan has said there.

How much of a hold do you think it has on Ireland's progress from this point on?

Okay, and it may be important to note at this stage that the defence in the Central Criminal Court, except for the man involved in the attack, was Riyad Bouchakar.

Now, a couple visiting Dublin that day, Frank, also gave evidence of what they saw.

They didn't intervene, but they gave their account of what they saw from the other side of the road.

Is there a negative to that at all?

You know, if you have a population that has been through something like 2008, Dan, and, you know, we were talking about saving earlier and people putting their money into bank accounts where they're not earning very much interest.

Have we become too cautious?

So, Frank, in just over an hour's time, at 11 o'clock this morning, day six of the trial will get underway.

So do we know what evidence the jury is likely to hear over the course of today?

All right.

And if you want more detail on the proceedings at the Central Criminal Court today, be sure to listen to Frank's podcast called All Rise, the Riyadh-Bushakar trial.

It's released every evening on the Go Loud app or wherever you get your podcasts from.

That is Frank Rainey, who is Newstalk's courts correspondent.

Well, there was enormous trust placed in the banks.

You know, if the bank wants to give me a 100% mortgage or in some cases 120%, well, that must be OK for them and for me.

And do you think that Irish households have really learned a lesson when it comes to debt and saving?

Owen is 31 from near Carlow and he's been in touch with us to say we need to bring back manufacturing it's very easy to see that the high corporation tax paying companies have propped us up but the loss of manufacturing is slowly killing us the high corporation tax paying companies have drawn people away from rural Ireland and although they pay good wages it pushes up the cost for everyone and everything as a result and he's talking about the loss of the Irish sugar industry and the fact that we're importing everything in that regard now