Building my dream home became a nightmare

Herman Baily in front of Keeper's House, the former fog station in East Cork. Picture: Denis Minihane.

As he walked around the old fog station which rose from the cliffs above the beach he played on as a child, Herman Baily thought he had found his and his partner’s perfect home.

Once a paternal guard for sailors protecting them from shipwreck, Power Head fog and coastguard station near Inch beach in east Cork would be reimagined as a home for Mr Baily and his partner.