Tenants of a Dublin 8 apartment block who are facing mass eviction will hold a rally outside the Dáil this Wednesday in hopes the Government and Dublin City Council will intervene and keep them in their homes.
Residents of Tathony House fear they could end up in emergency accommodation if the eviction plan is carried out due to the dire state of the rental market in the capital. They will be joined by tenants who are also facing mass eviction from apartments in Rathmines and St Helens in Dun Laoghaire.
Cllr Madeleine Johansson is one of the people living in Tathony House, Kilmainham, who received an eviction note last month. “I spend a lot of time each day helping constituents with housing problems,” the South Dublin County councillor told Dublin Live. “But now I'm facing eviction just like the worried tenants who come to me in my job.”
