Ciaran Killalea, The Gasworks, Dublin.
"I'm only living here nine months. I moved in at the early stages. I've been living in apartments for over a decade, and that's the main reason I set up www.gasworks-residents.ie, a discussion forum for the new community, because I just found that there's very little communication between residents. The forum has been up for about three months; it's getting several hundred hits a week. Plan A would be a block party, a get-together in one of the gardens in the summer, organised via the forum.
"I have a pool table in my apartment. It's nothing to do with the pool as such; it's just very sociable. People come over, you have a few drinks, shoot a bit of pool, have a bit of craic. It's a great way to meet the neighbours. I put in the pool table and a small bar. It's a real bachelor pad. I'm going to get a Gasworks pool competition going, between the different buildings.
"I was thinking of putting a hammock out on the balcony. I always find that nobody ever uses their balcony, apart from having the odd cigarette there, but with a hammock you can swing and relax, make use of it.
"I don't know why people are slow to talk to their neighbours. I think the main thing is that nobody knows if the person next door is going to be here for three months, six months or whatever. In a housing estate people know it's more permanent, so they make more of an effort. it's sad to see. People put the head down sometimes - they don't even say hello - but I always make the effort to say hello anyway. At least you might get to know your neighbours if you do.
"Google is at the end of the Clayton building. People call the area Googleland. I think it's great. Everybody is very internet-oriented, with the age profile being 28 to 35, so that helps with the forum.
"The main thing that's bugging people at the moment is that it's still a bit of a building site. People are a bit peeved now. But that's going to come to an end in the next couple of months. They're putting the finishing touches to things.
"I got this place for €400,000, plus the car space - at the time it was €35,000. I got it valued recently, and you'd be looking at about €625,000. I was crying when I bought it, though. It seemed like so much. Many a sleepless night I had. But I'm delighted with it now, and I'm thrilled with the way the development has turned out.
In conversation with Davin O'Dwyer