Residents near UCC fear summer of Magaluf-style parties 

The Magazine Road and Surrounding Areas Residents Association said landlords who make their properties available for house parties during a pandemic should be made liable to prosecution and fines. Picture: David Keane

Residents whose lives were made hell by Covid lockdown parties in Cork’s university precinct have called for a raft of new laws to crack down on a specific sector of the rented housing sector.

The residents of Magazine Road and the surrounding areas, close to University College Cork, said their experience during the Covid-19 public health crisis has exposed serious shortcomings in the management of rented houses of multiple occupancy (HMOs).