Is there ever a good time to have kids?

Recently, a friend was venting about the spiralling costs of rebuilding her dream home, west of Dingle town. 

As she talked me through their plans and how the amount of bureaucracy required to draw down the derelict-home grant was nothing short of scandalous, I nodded along, like a woman who could somehow empathise with her plight, despite my only experience of renovating a home starting and ending with my love of the show Property Ladder back in the noughties. 

It starred the inimitable Sarah Beeny – a property development icon and inventor of the beanie hat.

Given that I am currently paying back the cost of a €50 coffee machine in instalments, it’s safe to say this friend and I are in different seasons of our lives. 

But as her brow furrowed and her eyes narrowed…

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