House a Suir-fire winner complete with hot tub

A JAUNDICED, perhaps jaded, or merely insightful Irish town planner once remarked that Irish house hunters were easily pleased.

We just want a bungalow, on an acre, with river views and only a minute from the city centre, he surmised dryly.

The story, as is now occasionally re-told, is generally taken to apply to Cork, and St Patrick’s Street, or to Dublin’s O’Connell Street, and as an aspirational wish-list it could as readily apply to Limerick or Waterford.