Council under fire over heating in wake of death

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.

Last night the family of 30-year-old Rachel Peavoy, who a coroner’s court last week found had died of hypothermia in her Dublin City Council flat last January, said they were distraught over the death of the young mother-of-two.

Ms Peavoy died of hypothermia after the council turned off her heating in January 2010 during one of the coldest ever periods.