The average home in Ireland now costs eight times the average salary, the worst affordability in 16 years according to the latest MyHome.ie / Bank of Ireland Property Report. For young people, that means buying a home isn’t just difficult, it’s becoming impossible without help. Prices have outpaced wages to the point where even solid earners are locked out of the market. At the end of the day, this is a supply and demand issue. We don’t need more schemes or incentives, we need more homes built,

Many Irish investors overlook this. Ireland has no real HMO regulations yet. In the UK, you cannot create a HMO without a licence, minimum room sizes, and strict standards. Here, investors are taking a standard four-bed house, turning it into five, sometimes extending into the garden and pushing it up to seven bedrooms. Some do it properly — full refurb, professional standard, everything brand new. Others cut corners with tiny box rooms that would never pass inspection anywhere else. If Ireland

Rory Gallagher's iconic 1961 Strat is finally headed to the National Museum in Ireland