‘Neighbours from hell’ forced 20 tenants to move

Twenty local authority tenants were approved for house transfers in North Cork because they were victims of “neighbours from hell”.

Independent councillor John Paul O’Shea, who had sought information on the reasons for house transfers in the council’s Northern Division, said that he was “shocked and surprised” by the figure because he thought there was a strong policy in place to deal with local authority tenants who were causing antisocial problems in council estates.

“This obviously means that we can’t deal with them (antisocial tenants),” said SinnFéin councillor Melissa Mullane.