Residents facing eviction protest at the Dáil

Residents of a city apartment block are taking their fight against mass eviction to the streets tonight after the Taoiseach branded as “cruel” the serving of notices to quit in the run-up to Christmas.

The Leeside Apartments residents in Cork City, who protested outside the Dáil yesterday, have formed an action group and plan to ramp up their campaign against the planned evictions with a protest outside the complex on Bachelor’s Quay this evening.

And the residents say they have received advice which suggests a raft of notices to quit served on them may be invalid.