New Ballymun home ‘like winning the Lotto’

DIANE KELLY is ticking off the days until she moves into her new home, which is being built with the help of an American humanitarian group.

“I can’t wait to get in; I got accepted last October. It was like winning the Lotto to be getting out of a flat and building something that is going to be our own.”

Diane’s new apartment is one of four affordable homes being built in Ballymun under a novel partnership with the international Habitat for Humanity organisation.