Book Review: Rory Hearne's Gaffs is a difficult - but necessary - read

"Something’s gotta give ... and much sooner rather than later. The State must start building to avert social collapse; it is that pressing."

The Bay Meadows housing development during construction in Dublin 15 last year; all 112 houses were bought by global investment company, Round Hill Company, to be put on the rental market. Picture: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie

• Gaffs
• Rory Hearne
• Harper Collins Ireland
• pb €14.99

This is a very difficult read. Not because it is poorly written but because it is an irrefutable indictment of how so many citizens of this young, still-hopeful Republic have been betrayed by every government entrusted with a Dáil mandate over the last half century.