Theresa Fagan

They were like, no, that's Teresa's house.

This is where I wanted to live.

Well, it's a perfect... So, like, from my house, I can see the Donegal Mountains.

I can see Sligo.

I can see parts of Limerick.

Or Leitrim.

No, no, Leitrim.

Sorry, sorry, sorry.

Like, the view... I have an exceptional view.

And...

Yeah, so I grew up beside the sea and when you grow up in an area like this, there's a love that doesn't leave you for most people and it just never left me and this was always going to be my home and then to have to fight for it.

Not because I wanted to build something that was out of character with the area, but because national policy does not value rural Ireland.

It doesn't value the people in rural Ireland.

It doesn't value the homes.

It's like living in rural Ireland is rough.

And everything from a national level that they do, you always feel that somehow you're wrong to want to live here and to live here.

There's no... You don't hear the benefits of it.

And there is so many benefits.

they always bring it back to climate and, you know, how such a negative impact that living in rural... You know, if we were all in little urban centres and all in towns, but, like, that has its own problems as well, like between schools and community areas and everything else.

And it's like they're constantly putting the horse before the cart.