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It was once a railway cottage – now a Dublin three-bed has a 747 flight simulator in the back garden shed

EAT YOUR hearts out blokey Top Gear types and gadget geeks. There’s a guy in Inchicore with an aircraft simulator in his shed. Not one of those fancy computer games, this is the real thing – a decommissioned 747 simulator, cockpit and all.