Good times on the horizon

Property Editor Tommy Barker on why home owners living close to the newly expanded East Cork rail service are laughing all the way to the bank.

HOUSE prices didn’t rise much back in the lean, mean 1980s — it was our other great depression era, after all.

But, when Dublin’s DART rail services came along in 1984, residential property prices along that scenic coastal commuter line rose by 10% to 14% within a year or so.