Summer time and the riverside living is easy

AN unemployed construction worker has never looked back since he decided to take up residency in a 70-year-old fisherman’s hut on the banks of the Shannon river.

Dan O’Neill’s unconventional way of living is stress free and practically “costs nothing”, the 45-year-old Limerick man insists.

He is the only full-time resident in one of six fisherman’s huts located on the Plassey bank near the University of Limerick campus and has been living there for the past 12 years.