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BackwardsGoing · 11/01/2021 13:59

I've exhausted my Rightmove stalking so have moved onto daft.ie to buy my fantasy Irish retirement home. I thought you might enjoy this one:

Any colour as long as it's grey:

www.daft.ie/12721682

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Toptop498 · 11/01/2021 14:01

Poor house.

ZestyDragon · 11/01/2021 14:08

God, I hate grey. Clontarf is right on the sea which I like.

These are beautiful though:

www.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-stone-hall-glandore-co-cork/1341292

www.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-shambala-ballyrisode-schull-co-cork/64497

BarbaraofSeville · 11/01/2021 15:32

Not relevant to the thread, but LOL at the website name.

In the UK, in Yorkshire at least, daft means means silly or a bit stupid, does it not mean that in Ireland?

SlatternIsMyMiddleName · 11/01/2021 15:34

I’m from the North and it certainly means - a bit silly - here.

user1471483687 · 11/01/2021 15:37

That was the broadcaster Gerry Ryan's house!
For me the let down is that for that size house the garden is very small, and no driveway!

Annonymiss123 · 11/01/2021 15:38

[quote BackwardsGoing]I've exhausted my Rightmove stalking so have moved onto daft.ie to buy my fantasy Irish retirement home. I thought you might enjoy this one:

Any colour as long as it's grey:

www.daft.ie/12721682[/quote]
For any Irish people reading - this is Gerry Ryan's former family home AFAIK.

Annonymiss123 · 11/01/2021 15:39

@user1471483687

That was the broadcaster Gerry Ryan's house! For me the let down is that for that size house the garden is very small, and no driveway!
lol Snap! Grin
Joolsin · 11/01/2021 15:41

[quote BackwardsGoing]I've exhausted my Rightmove stalking so have moved onto daft.ie to buy my fantasy Irish retirement home. I thought you might enjoy this one:

Any colour as long as it's grey:

www.daft.ie/12721682[/quote]
That house belonged the the late Irish radio/tv broadcaster, Gerry Ryan. What the pictures don't show is that there's a small housing estate immediately behind it, accessed down the side of the house. I wouldn't spend €2m on a house with cars whizzing up and down the side. (Not that I have €2m to spend anyway Grin)

Annonymiss123 · 11/01/2021 15:43

[quote ZestyDragon]God, I hate grey. Clontarf is right on the sea which I like.

These are beautiful though:

www.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-stone-hall-glandore-co-cork/1341292

www.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-shambala-ballyrisode-schull-co-cork/64497[/quote]
They are in a beautiful part of the country.

Joolsin · 11/01/2021 15:44

Oops, cross posted with loads of posters - thus proving that we all do know everyone's business in Ireland!!! Small world, etc!!! 😂

BackwardsGoing · 11/01/2021 15:53

Really? I didn't know it was his. I liked GR back when I lived in Dublin. I think it's a great house but so unbelievably GREY!

And yes, I think the name daft came from the time the Celtic Tiger / house price bubble was seen as crazy by many.

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BarbaraofSeville · 11/01/2021 15:57

Ha ha. You'd have to be daft to pay these prices?

BackwardsGoing · 11/01/2021 16:51

@BarbaraofSeville indeed.

The Glandore house is gorgeous but has a very strange wall around the back garden.

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