Morgan Kelly is Professor of Economics at University College Dublin (UCD).
[2] He subsequently studied in Yale University in the United States.
Kelly has garnered praise from fellow economists for his prediction of the collapse of the property market.
In July 2007, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern implicitly criticised Kelly for his articles predicting a property crash:Sitting on the sidelines, cribbing and moaning is a lost opportunity.
[5]Ahern subsequently apologised for the reference to suicide in his remark.