Nearly 4,700 people were approved for a mortgage in the month of May, a 150% increase on the same month last year. Pat was joined this morning by  Charlie Weston  Personal Finance Editor with the Irish Independent about how this is piling on more Pressure in the already overheating housing market. 

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