Dozens living in ‘unauthorised hostel’, court heard

Dozens of South Americans and Eastern Europeans are unlawfully being rented “living space” in a single Co Dublin house in dangerous, unhealthy, and cramped conditions, a court has heard.

Barrister Liam O’Connell told Judge Jacqueline Linnane that, next Friday, he would be asking her to order Richard Stanley to immediately end the use of his property at The Pines, Lehaunstown, Cabinteely, “as what can only be described as an unauthorised hostel”.

Mr O’Connell, at the Circuit Civil Court with Dunlaoghaire-Rathdown County Council’s law agent Dorothy Kennedy, said the private dwelling was considered a fire and health risk.