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whereas like I visit South Dublin and I see people's driveways going straight out onto busy roads all the time and this entrance has been there for since the 1940s and just people take care going past it would have eaten into the site.

Anyway the process was arduous and you know what eventually our lives moved on and we kind of gave up on the project and I sold it so there's

No more of my family in County Kilkenny anymore, you know.

I think if we'd had a bit of a more welcoming reception, we might have gone ahead with the project and, you know, we would have moved in.

The diaspora coming home, we would have spent money there, supported local businesses.

You'd never know what might have happened.

The latter.

I think there's a kind of ideology there that seeks to herd everyone into the towns away from the rural areas.

I think there's a kind of a sneering thing about the bungalow blight.

We didn't like the bungalows, so we're going to stop people building things like that.

They don't kind of take into account that people are part of the ecology.

The generations of people that came from that land, they are part of the ecology too.

We are part of that little piece of nature.

And, you know, good people raise families in single-family dwellings around Ireland.

And they weren't always in easy, prosperous times like now.

They worked hard and they had to do hard graft and hard work.

But they raised good families and good people who went out and did great things out of rural Ireland.

Yeah, yeah.

I do.

I mean, I grew up in the country where I, you know, as a child, I had space to run around in green space and looking at nature.