Unfinished business

ON a cold Tuesday night in February, a group of frustrated residents from Gleann Riada housing estate near Longford town gathered at the Longford Arms Hotel in a room hired at their own expense.

The purpose of the meeting was to determine what action they could take — if any — to force the developer to complete the estate they had in good faith bought into.

A litany of problems was outlined: sewage seeping onto a lawn, footpaths cracking, pipes sagging, no sign of a promised crèche, no street lighting and apartments to the fore of the estate which have never been occupied and which are now the perfect playground for antisocial behaviour.