This article is part of Ireland’s Changing Suburbs, an Irish Times series exploring our fast-growing new towns, changing older neighbourhoods, and shrinking rural landscapes. An estate in Johnstown on the outskirts of Navan town, Co Meath, where many of the 12,000 residents commute to Dublin for work. Photograph: Enda O'Dowd“More people leave Meath for work and Navan is the biggest commuter town in the country. “For the first few years we really saw it as a dormitory town,” says Joe Staunton, who owns a pharmacy in Navan town. Navan Town, which has become increasingly seen as a part of Dublin's commuter belt.
