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Ms Cooney cannot put shelves on the walls as they are too damp to hold them, while her adult son, Marcus, cannot leave clothes or papers in his room due to the damp. “I’ve woken wheezing and coughing because my room is so cold. I am exhausted,” he says. Ms Cooney says she stopped paying rent, of “about €500 a month”, to her landlord, South Dublin County Council, “about a year ago”. She would be “delighted to pay if my home was habitable”. Local TD and Sinn Féin housing spokesman Eoin Ó Broin says there are 31 cases regarding poor conditions in Balgaddy, some of them ongoing for more than a decade. Other tenants, he fears, “have given up complaining about it”.

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