A few years ago, when trying to buy a house, I focused my search on Dublin’s north inner city. I viewed homes on Bayview Avenue, Hawthorn Terrace, St Mary’s Road. Despite stretching my budget as far as I could, I was outbid for a beautiful Victorian on St Brigid’s Avenue. But it was when I visited a two-up, two-down on Emerald Street that my gran became really interested. ‘That’s our area,’ she said.
Listen to the full story by Éimear Arthur here.
