Mother shunned by the Celtic Tiger ends up in clutches of a loan shark

I KNOW a woman who is the mother of three children. I won’t tell you where she lives, other than to say it is in a housing estate that reflects very little credit on any of us.

You can visit this housing estate if you wish — in fact there are several like it in most of our large towns — though I wouldn’t necessarily advise you to park your car there.

Strange cars excite interest in these housing estates, and there are some youngsters in each of them who run wild.