I must have watched a different programme to the rest of you. The lady in the ghost estate is typical of many, but she had a state job and can afford her mortgage. The lady in Dublin was mad to buy an apartment in Spain, but lots did. The single father living at home with mother made no sense to me. Why didn't he live with his partner and child I wonder. Maybe it's cushy at home with the dole.
Anyone who's been near the English market or the side streets nearby would tell you you see real dead animals, not nice in packets like in Dublin butchers. They have all sorts in the butchers in Cork, it's typical of Cork. A lot of English foodies come to Kinsale and Cork, something to be proud of and a lot of them live there.
As for Simon Kelly in the Shelbourne, so now we know, he's worse off then most. He said it himself. Poor fellow in the same house he's always lived in, in the same car he's used to driving and sending the kids to private school and no change in lifestyle for him, poor fellow with him owing only a 'few' million. Which he refered to as 'not a lot'.
One sad thing was the girl setting off abroad, but she had a good education and will do well. Father seemed strong on education.
The most sad thing though was the suicides.
We have to go back to basics, that's what I thought it was about and showing the madness of it all. The English went through a property bubble in the eighties and know what a street full of 'for sale' signs means. It is not my experience that the English gloat. And gloat they might because what happened was absolutely celtic madness.