Housing crisis sees young family move into attic storage space

A mother and her two young children are living in a storage space in an attic provided by her parents after the young family had to leave their home due to soaring rents.

Meanwhile, the mother of a four-year-old girl has moved back into a family home but substance abuse is rife there and she is worried her daughter might ingest drugs by accident, or injure herself with a contaminated needle.

And a family of four who also moved back in with relatives are sleeping in a kitchen. One of the children was studying for the Leaving Certificate and her brother was doing the Junior Certificate.