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<p>The fire at the Verdemont apartment block in 2002. Photo: Dublin Fire Brigade</p>

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Mick Clifford: Apartment defects the latest step in a sorry saga
Ever since a fire at West Dublin's Verdemont in 2002, serious fire safety defects have been discovered in many apartment blocks built between 1991 and 2013. Is the Government willing to finally impose the building regulations needed to tackle the deadly scourge of building defects?
Residents in the dark over fire safety costs

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Residents in the dark over fire safety costs
€50k bill to make 2001 homes fire safe

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€50k bill to make 2001 homes fire safe
Man sabotaged toll to highlight fire concerns

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Man sabotaged toll to highlight fire concerns
Lives at risk due to fire safety failures and building boom’s self-regulation regime

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Lives at risk due to fire safety failures and building boom’s self-regulation regime
12 flats evacuated as 'major, accidental fire' hits Dublin apartment block

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12 flats evacuated as 'major, accidental fire' hits Dublin apartment block
To tackle child poverty, one-parent families must be supported
To tackle child poverty, one-parent families must be supported
Spark (Single Parents Acting for the Rights of Kids) is extremely disappointed that the programme for government contains no specific commitment to review reforms of the One-Parent Family Payment, which resulted in losses for our poorest families and forced many lone parents out of paid employment.

Wed, 18 May, 2016

Pregnant robber is given suspended sentence

A heavily pregnant woman has been given a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for robbing a young woman as she walked home from a night out last year.

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