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Broadcaster Kieran Cuddihy photographed for 'People & Culture' in 2025. Photo: Steve Humphreys

Broadcaster Kieran Cuddihy photographed for ‘People & Culture’ in 2025. Photo: Steve Humphreys

The front page story in the Sunday Independent last week, about €14k tax breaks on “modular homes” in gardens, kicked off another round of intense radio hostilities on the housing issue.

Indeed on the Brendan ­O’Connor Sunday newspaper panel (11am), the great ­Professor Scott Lucas of UCD pointed out that virtually every time he had been on the show, this ­issue had been raised. Journalist Alison ­O’Connor struck a note that would be heard many times throughout the week, when she spoke of “the potential for huge disharmony”.