Special Delivery: Heavy renovations give former Cobh post office new lease on life 

Following an offer of €69,000, Fiona Geary became the owner of a derelict old building that most people would run a million miles from

IE PROPERTY TOMMY BARKER 31/03/2023.

Growing up in London, Fiona Geary got an enormous Victorian dolls house one Christmas. I picture her joy as she played with it endlessly and peopled it with happy families and miniature cats and dogs.

“Not a bit”, she said. “No doll ever went into that house! I spent every waking moment, lost in another world, measuring and cutting up sample bits of carpets and wallpaper and redecorating the tiny rooms as often as the city’s changing seasons.” Her paint-by-numbers palette created two toned painted spaces and contrasting colour styles in the high-ceilinged rooms of that Victorian playhouse.