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27 Sept 2025

Kildare family feature on RTÉ's Home Rescue

The Home Rescue team helped music teacher Carrie Haskins (35), who shares a 1920s semi-detached house in Athy, Kildare, with her three kids

Kildare family to feature on RTÉ's Home Rescue this Thursday

Interior designer Dee Coleman alongside Carrie Haskins and declutter expert Aidan Gately

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Kildare Reporter

27 Sept 2025 6:59 AM

The Home Rescue team on RTE helped music teacher Carrie Haskins (35), who shares a 1920s semi-detached house in Athy, County Kildare, with her three kids Harry (7) Charlotte (4) and Joshua (3) - the same house she grew up in herself.
In recent years, life has been a mixture of sadness and joy for Carrie, losing both her parents and giving birth to her two youngest children in the space of a single year.
The house had seen better days with damaged walls and ceilings, mountains of clothes, music equipment and ornaments belonging to her late parents. 
Builder Pete and crew get to work in the middle of a vicious cold snap earlier this year. 
Determined to strike a balance between the emotional legacy of the house and Carrie’s practical needs,  Irish interior designer Dee Coleman decided to break through a solid wall under the stairs to create storage and reopen a disused second fireplace, bringing warmth back into the home.
Meanwhile, over at the local GAA club, declutter expert Aidan Gately, the crew and Carrie’s friends, tackled a mountain of musical paraphernalia, instruments and vintage electronica as Carrie decided to pass her dad’s musical heritage on to the next generation.
For Carrie and her kids, the renovation project was life-changing as the team transformed a house stranded in the past into a family home that honoured the past but looked to the future. 
Narrated by Irish comedian Neil Delamere, the episode  is available to stream on the RTÉ Player.

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