Remember the housing boom?

The BBC have published an article on the number of ghost estates in Ireland. These are housing developments where the houses are empty. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8653949.stm 
It seems that there are 621 of these estates; approximately one in every five house in Ireland is unoccupied. By way of comparison, they say that the number of unoccupied houses in [...]

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