Rent-a-Room 2.0? Why €14,000 tax break a year for ‘cheap’ modular homes is far from the no-brainer it seems

Irish homeowners have long taken in lodgers to make ends meet. The publication of the 1926 census last month showed just how common it was to rent out a spare room to a stranger, from Dublin households taking in culchies moving up to the Big Smoke to seek work to rural homes accepting “paying guests” such as farm labourers or travelling salesmen.