Cardboard house raises funds for children’s hospice

THE property boom may have crashed but families and friends spent night and day at the weekend building a different sort of housing project.

Ireland’s largest cardboard house was erected overnight in Dublin, in efforts to raise much needed funds for the country’s first hospice for sick and dying children.

Families from the leafy south Dublin suburb of Foxrock put together thegiant construction, using some 7,000 cardboard boxes.