Irish lad in Oz puts cardboard-box castle up for rent, gets serious offers

Great protection from invading hordes, siege pack and supplies optional, keep the dark knight at bay.

It turns out a little bit of Irish humour can be misunderstood in Australia.

Irishman Darragh Cullen is living in Darwin, and was knocked out of work with a broken leg, so he took on a lighter construction project with this cardboard castle. As you do.

Then the carpenter from Swords, in a bit of typical Irish wit, popped it up on Gumtree as a property ad - and got people looking to rent it.

"I've had four serious calls and people have been texting and emailing," Cullen told Northern Territories News.

"One guy I was explaining to him that it was just a joke but he didn't speak English so I ended up telling him that the room's already gone."

This isn't a joke either - he literally made the front page!

lol a guy I know in Australia build a cardboard castle in his front room and joke put it up for rent. people want it pic.twitter.com/FjmH8cAW3i

— Aidan Cuffe (@dionsis) July 3, 2013

Darwin's rental market is the most expensive in Australia - which might explain why people are seriously pitching AUD $200 a month or so for a cardboard box.

Rents average roughly AUD $750 for houses and $550 for apartment units- a week. That's about €350, every week.

The cardboard box isn't looking too bad, is it?

(Hat-tip to the Irish Echo.)