Mr. Frank McDonald:

It was not just Kinnegad. Virtually everywhere in Leinster was subsumed into a sprawled Dublin. I mentioned Rochfortbridge. It was in the mid-1990s that I remember passing through Rochfortbridge on the way back from Galway and being shocked to discover that there seemed to be, as it were, suburban housing estates being built up around it and it seemed to me to be like bits of Ballinteer, as it were, that ended up 80 km away. The same was happening in Portlaoise, Gorey, Drogheda, Dundalk and Cavan. It was happening everywhere.