I drive from Kinnegad to Ballyfermot six days a week and it's not too bad. I leave home at 6.30 in the morning and get to work about 7.30 a.m. I leave at 4.00 p.m. and get home around 5.10 p.m. If I work until five I don't get home until 6.40 p.m. There are no short cuts at all, it's best to stick to the N4. Any way you go takes just as long. The traffic is good at that time until you get to Lucan and then when you get to the M50.

My wife works Monday to Friday in Dublin from 4.30 p.m. to midnight. She finds the journey hard going but she's getting used to it now. Petrol prices are sky high - it costs me £35 a week and it's the same for my wife. We lived in Clondalkin in a housing estate. If we needed to go out, we had to go to Ballyfermot. Here we just have to walk around to the Phoenix for a drink or to Harry's for a meal.

We got £95,000 for the Clondalkin house, which we had bought for £25,500. Our four-bedroom semi in Riverside Lawns cost £118,000 and we still have a small mortgage. The same house in Lucan would cost about £195,000 - I wouldn't be able to sleep with a mortgage that size. We've got three kids, aged four, three and one. The school here is brilliant and the town is lovely.

In an interview with Kate McMorrow