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Mar 12th 2013, 6:01 pm

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I know it's a daft question, but I've been curious as to what 'daft' stands for, other than the price of housing in Ireland at the peak of the boom.

Mar 12th 2013, 8:57 pm

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Originally Posted by urban_culchie

I know it's a daft question, but I've been curious as to what 'daft' stands for, other than the price of housing in Ireland at the peak of the boom.

I think its named after the Irish that bought houses in the Celtic Tiger boom years, and are now in negative equity trying to sell them for 200% less than what they paid for them.
Its just a catchy website name really. Easy to remember like donedeal.ie

Apr 15th 2013, 6:21 pm

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Don't ask for trouble?

Apr 15th 2013, 6:24 pm

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Re: daft.ie

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I know it's a daft question, but I've been curious as to what 'daft' stands for, other than the price of housing in Ireland at the peak of the boom.

'Daft.ie, Ireland's largest property website, was founded in 1997 by brothers Eamonn and Brian Fallon. Today Daft.ie is part of Distilled Media - Ireland's largest online publisher. Distilled Media includes websites as daft.ie, rent.ie, let.ie, property.ie, and community sites boards.ie and adverts.ie. '

from their website

Apr 16th 2013, 9:44 am

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And well done to those brothers' too. I have been using DAFT for some years' now, tracking various properties' in the West, in readiness for when I sell my casa in Spain and I can finally come home.