Home of the Year finale review: There’s no justice, but we can’t expect logic from this programme

It has been compulsive viewing but the wrong Dublin home was picked as the 2024 champion

Home of the Year winner: Marty Campbell and Shane Murray's terraced home crowned Home of the Year

Ann Marie Hourihane

How wrong can you be? I was sure Eugene and Alex had nailed it and I think I speak for all of us when I say that we would be happy to move into their home tomorrow. But what can I tell you, there is no justice.

Instead we found ourselves, for some reason that was never explained, at the Palmerstown estate in Co Kildare, where the final judging of Home of the Year 2024 took place – in the Deliberation Room, as Hugh called it. Because nothing says contemporary Irish home in the 21st century better than a Victorian pile.