Letters to the Editor: All I wanted to do was build a modest home on a modest patch of land left to me by my grandmother

A reader, 28, still living at home, says a better Ireland won’t come from division, but from pressure on those in power
Letters to the Editor: All I wanted to do was build a modest home on a modest patch of land left to me by my grandmother

More than 70% of young Irish adults believe they’ll never own a home.

I never thought I’d be the type to write to a newspaper. But here I am — 28 years old, from the West of Ireland, still living in my childhood bedroom, asking permission from the Government to exist.

You see, all I wanted to do was build a modest home on a modest patch of land left to me by my grandmother, a woman who knew me better than the planning authority ever will. 

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