Double the space and €5.40 pints: House price refugees flee the capital and bring life to towns and small cities

Spiralling costs and remote working are encouraging city dwellers to recover the sense of community they grew up with in big towns and smaller cities. This has given these urban centres a shot in the arm

Recent reports that the rate of house price inflation has surged again makes particularly bad news for younger couples in Ireland’s biggest cities, where the price of even the smallest properties have long been beyond what even the wealthier can afford.

But these days our big cities have other problems too. Dublin in particular is being criticised for crime and price gouging in the city centre, the commoditisation of its housing market and what many describe as a loss of that

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