DUBLIN City Council has denied that the heating system in a Ballymun flat in which a mother-of-two died of hypothermia had been switched off.

PHONE calls made to maintenance numbers requesting the heating be switched on in an apartment block in which a young mother eventually died of hypothermia were “hung up on”, the Dublin City Coroner’s Court has heard.

An inquest finding that hypothermia caused the death of 30-year-old mother-of-two Rachel Peavoy in her council flat is a stark reminder of how society’s most vulnerable are suffering as the economic crisis worsens, writes Scott Millar

A WOMAN afraid of freezing to death in her local authority home has begun sleeping overnight on a couch in front of the fire.

DUBLIN City Council continued to fail to provide alternative sources of heating during the recent cold spell to tenants who refused to leave their homes in Ballymun flat complexes undergoing regeneration work, despite the earlier death of a young woman from hypothermia.

A coroners court in Dublin has heard that a young mother died from hypothermia at a flat in Ballymun last winter after Dublin City Council allegedly turned off the communal heating.

THE doctor representing the family of a 30-year-old mother-of- two who died from hypothermia in her council flat, has called for an independent inquiry into her death.