Fergal Mullen grew up in a parish like any other in Dublin in the 1970s and 1980s. “The thing I remember most about our little neighbourhood was that nobody had money, sports was top of agenda, and school, and family life,” he says of life in the west Dublin suburb of Ballyroan in Rathfarnham. He explains that everyone in the area was “in the same boat” with differences measured between families only perceptible through what car they drove or whether or not they’d had new-fangled technologies like double-glazed windows installed. While Ballyroan seemed nondescript within a wider Ireland that was…

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