Dara

Yeah, hi Ciarán, thanks for taking my call.

Yeah, the girls, my girls were running my little cottage as an Airbnb for the last couple of years and to be fair, it's on the Wicklow Way and there isn't much accommodation along the route, so it did really well and they earned a lot of money and we paid all our tax on it, but then I got a notification from Wicklow County Council that

it wasn't permissible and I would have to either engage an architect for a property that is 250 years old like it's a little cottage so I couldn't understand why planning permission was required it's been there all the time so essentially we closed down because I couldn't afford off the back of what we were earning we couldn't afford to pay for planning permission

I presume so, yeah.

I mean, it was that I had to engage an architect and the costs associated.

Yeah, and I'd be fair.

We're very rural.

Like, we're up off the back of, you know, Pirates of the Waterfall and all of that.

And if anybody was to move in, they'd need their own, you know, they'd need to be able to travel and all that themselves.

So it's not really... I don't think it's a place that most people would take on.

But...

you know, we're using it for personal use now.

It's a shame because it would have been a really good option for tourists who are doing the Wicklow way, you know, just to stay over.

So I didn't go down the line of, you know, engaging an architect and going for planning.

So I just pulled the plug, unfortunately.

So I don't really have any advice, but I just think it's a shame because these are assets that we could use for tourists.

Can you give it to KJ?

I know.

I just would rather be with someone who has his eyes closed than to talk to you.

When you guys called into the Ramsey show, it was like, I think that we should push them harder. Baby Jonathan being born is a wake-up call for us to finally change. I can't go on another month.