David Curran, from Knocknacarra in Galway, writes a letter in response to Dermot O’Rourke’s comments on the halt in property prices in the border county of Monaghan. He recalls a conversation he had with a local entrepreneur regarding the downfall of the Irish economic boom, fittingly referred to as the ‘Celtic Tiger’. Upon questioning the businessman about the impact of the economic crisis, he was met with the intriguing retort, “What Celtic Tiger?”