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Aoife Raeside & Emma Nevin & Karen Morgan

Senior Dubliners call on builders to help them downsize to smaller homes

Two Dublin women are calling on a change to be made to housing planning so developers have to provide smaller dwellings designed for the elderly when building new estates.

Maureen Smith and Maureen Dunne both live alone in Baldoyle and have unsuccessfully been trying to downsize for years.

The pair are in their 60's and 70's and both say they are living in homes too big for them.

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