Shattered lives

IT WAS supposed to be his dream house in the perfect estate to raise a family.

But for Paul Ryan, and dozens of his neighbours, the dream has become a nightmare.

The residents of the Meadows on Cork’s northside have now raised serious health and safety fears and called for immediate action to clear a ‘dump’ which has been allowed develop in the heart of their unfinished estate on a site which was earmarked for a crèche, a playground, and shops.