A protest took place yesterday by families facing eviction from their flats in the New Year.
The residents of 35 properties at Tathony House in the capital, took their fight to Dublin City Council and have vowed to fight plans to remove them from their homes. Earlier in the week, the residents of the three-storey apartment complex in Kilmainham were served eviction notices to vacate the property by the start of next June.
Tenant James O’Toole told the Irish Sunday Mirror he’s devastated to and wants Dublin City Council to intervene. He said: “This is a mass eviction, there’s 35 flats so there’s 80 to 100 people who will find themselves homeless if nothing is done.”
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The landlord said in the eviction notices he is exempt from a new law because it would cause him “undue hardship” to sell the building with tenants in situ.
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