Taxing times for Ireland’s women and mothers

You’re a 35-year-old married woman.

Having bought a home five years ago with your husband, you inadvertently ended up taking on the biggest loan of your life at the very apex of the property boom.

Subsequently you’re waist-deep in negative equity with a house that’s only worth half what you both borrowed. You also paid a wallop load of stamp duty for that same moneypit — meaning a hefty bill of €35,000.