Maggie Molloy meets Cork social care worker Helen Conway, who is looking to leave the suburbs of Carrigtwohill and get back to her rural roots. Helen has a dream of opening a little country store and she's pleasantly surprised with what she can afford, as Maggie and Kieran McCarthy take her and her friend Jim around north Cork and Waterford

Maggie Molloy explores more of Ireland's most reasonably priced homes, joined by building engineer Kieran McCarthy, who advises house hunters about the condition of the properties. They begin by heading to Carlow to help find a home for civil servant Laura, who wants to escape the rising costs of Dublin