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I read Charlie Weston’s piece on a decade of surging house prices (‘Ireland has EU’s highest housing cost after 10 years of surging prices,’ Irish Independent, December 11) beside Caroline O’Doherty, who wrote of the “love affair with detached homes” (‘Detached homes still dominate the property choices for homeowners,’ Irish Independent, December 11). My conclusion is Irish people will pay over the odds to own their home and garden, differing from the rest of Europe.
I then read John Connell’s piece on RTÉ’s
The Hunger (‘The quietness arising from the skeletons around the table still pervades our land,’