Swords cross in postcode row

POSTAL address snobbery is alive and well in 21st century Ireland, with council officials and builders literally crossing Swords over the issue.

It emerged over the weekend that Fingal County Council was recently forced to order developers to change the address used to promote a new 500-unit housing estate in north Co Dublin knocking about 40,000 off the price of a house.

Council officials instructed Cannon Kirk builders to list the company's Waterside development as being located in Swords, rather than Malahide as indicated in original publicity material when the scheme was launched last July.