{"id":314912,"date":"2026-02-24T15:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/314912\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T15:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:37:08","slug":"people-should-be-fed-up-with-lack-of-housing-and-infrastructure-in-ireland-says-john-collison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/314912\/","title":{"rendered":"People \u2018should be fed up\u2019 with lack of housing and infrastructure in Ireland, says John Collison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The Stripe co-founder, whose company value has jumped to $159bn, also said Trump\u2019s US tariffs have not damaged international trade, but overly-strict bank lending rules are damaging small firms\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stripe co-founder John Collison\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0504174e-44f8-4f42-a682-5c6bc6dbbf74.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Stripe co-founder John Collison<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">People are getting \u201cmore fed up\u201d with slow progress on infrastructure and services in Ireland, according to John Collison, the billionaire co-founder of Stripe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Speaking at the release of the payment company\u2019s annual company letter \u2013 which showed a 34pc increase in payments volume to $1.9tn (\u20ac1.6tn) and claimed that the privately-held firm is now \u201crobustly profitable\u201d with an updated value of $159bn (\u20ac135bn) \u2013 Collison said that, while structural deficits in Ireland will take time to fix, patience is running out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Stripe co-founder, whose company value has jumped to $159bn, also said Trump\u2019s US tariffs have not damaged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8819,2334,20927,7517,969,605,2244,807,3662,61,60,43,14735,119700,4162],"class_list":{"0":"post-314912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-adrian-weckler","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","10":"tag-central-bank-of-ireland","11":"tag-denis-obrien","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-elon-musk","14":"tag-eu","15":"tag-housing","16":"tag-housing-crisis","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-spotify","21":"tag-stripe-company","22":"tag-tariffs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}