Since they married two years ago, Paul and Sabina Horgan have become the proud parents of baby Mia and the owners of a property on the North Dublin coast: Lismara – a dilapidated 1940s cottage in Portmarnock in an extremely poor condition.

They’re hoping that – despite its rotting floorboards and ‘unorthodox’ foundations – this ‘fixer-upper’ will be their new family home.