'Sea-sickness' cited as one of many 'spurious' reasons for turning down council houses

A woman refused a three-storey council house overlooking Cork harbour because she and her children would get sea-sick peering out the window.

Another woman said she would not take a new house because of the dust which had accumulated after builders had finished.

Others refused offers of local authority housing as there was not room for a trampoline in the garden, or because a dog was barking next door, or there was no parking space outside.