‘I have to choose between buying food or fuel’

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

Majella Cassidy, 48, who lives at Bellview Crescent, off the Old Youghal Road in Cork, said she faces a stark choice every day — to either buy food or fuel.

Her flat is so cold that toothpaste has frozen solid in its tube in the frigid bathroom.