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Irish Trophy Homes Are Back With the Property Bubble a Distant Memory

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In a wealthy fishing village in Dublin, the Irish trophy home is making a comeback.

From the top of a hill close to the Irish Sea in Howth, developer Joe Cosgrave watches his team of construction workers racing to finish the granite-framed doorways and vast walk-in wardrobes at the country’s first luxury-home development since the bursting of a property bubble in 2008.