The cost of living crisis is one that is hitting hard across the country, and for mica homeowners, they face another, which has cost lives.
Mica homeowners, taxpayers all, did things the right way. They saved, they bought and they lived. Until the cracks appeared.
In the first of three-part series from the Irish Mirror, Paddy Diver, a mica campaigner, is often the face of strength for families who have lost the will to fight. He, too, has struggled to the point of collapse.