‘Government housing policy is so much about the numbers’: Rory Guinness of the Iveagh Trust on providing homes with a human element

“Life is a bit like sitting on a sofa,” says Rory Guinness, chair of the Iveagh Trust. He’s joking — riffing off the Friends- style photo we’ve arranged, that has him and his daughter, Aoife, seated alongside Iveagh Trust tenant Leonie Crowley, and employees including John Barrett and Martin O’Keeffe.