What a Difference a Day Makes: I’m glad the judge said those words — without them, it’d have been a slower process to here

Dennis Horgan’s new book of aerial photography, The Coast of Cork — A View from Above, showcases Cork’s maritime features, including high- and low-level coastal panoramas, shipwrecks, lighthouses, marine wildlife, deep sea fishing and cruise ships

Cork aerial photographer Dennis Horgan has been on countless journeys over the county’s dramatic cliffs, harbours and islands for his latest collection The Coast of Cork: A View From Above. Pictures: Chani Anderson

After the property market crashed, I was in the Family Law Court in Dublin. I’d been in auctioneering all my life, I was a valuer, doing valuations for court cases.

On this day around 2009, I was in court doing a valuation for the husband in a divorce case — another valuer was there for the wife. And the judge said: "How can you valuers be sure of the value of anything now? Sure everything’s gone, the market has crashed."