Suzanne Harrington: Kill your darlings as cost of living hits crisis point

The price of food is rising and pets everywhere are looking increasingly nervous

People do want to work, but not so that their hard-earned goes mostly on renting a dump, or paying a gas bill.

What do you do when your young adult kids can’t do a basic launch into the world because you’ve failed them by not being a millionaire? Your worry, is what you do. Worry, worry, worry. You’d see a therapist except you can’t afford one.

And while this is not a singular problem — as that recent daft.ie research showed, there are 716 rental properties in the whole of Ireland, for a population of 5.1 million.