World of Politics with Harry McGee

I bought my first house almost 30 years ago. I had not intended to buy but my mother was shocked that I was paying the sum of £50 per week for my room in a two-bedroom apartment. After she and my father came up to Dublin, I bought a new terraced house off the plans in Arbour Hill. It cost exactly two-and-a-half times my modest salary at the time.

At the time the cost seemed astronomical to me. Looking back, it seems comically small compared to what young people are faced with nowadays.

At the weekend,........

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