Patricia Power: 'I always knew I wanted to work in construction'

Keeping an eye on neighbourhood builds as a child laid career foundations for one of Ireland’s most famous quantity surveyors

Patricia Power.

It was a bit like our own version of Disneyland over the wall.

So, don’t try this at home, anyone, ever — ever — but when I was growing up, slipping away after school with a friend from up the road to explore building sites in our neighbourhood seemed like a hop, skip and a jump over the fence into paradise.