Council tenants refuse to pay rent over ‘squalor’ in area

Local authority tenants in an historic part of Cork city have begun a rent strike in a bid to force the council to tackle what they say is the “squalor” in their area.

Several residents of Noonan’s Road in Greenmount are refusing to hand over weekly rent payments of between €70 and €80 to Cork City Council until they see action on the ground.

They say the grounds of at least three vacant flats are being used for illegal dumping, that the public precinct areas to the front of the flats are overgrown, and the rubble from a boundary wall which was knocked down two years ago is still lying in a heap where it was left.