If I hadn’t started chatting to one of those dads, we wouldn’t have been able to buy our house. We had moved three times in four years, and wanted to stay roughly in the same area of Dublin’s northside. We went to see a house that I passed four times a day for the past seven years and had never noticed. We had viewed it three times before bidding and it was never pristine, but three months on, it was squalid. I googled “moved house bad luck” and hundreds of thousands of matches appeared.

Source: The Irish Times March 18, 2026 07:50 UTC