Court applauds as judge refuses to evict family, including baby, from council house

'There aren’t enough houses to go around and it is not the fault of local authorities. I don’t like to see anyone skipping a queue but I don’t accept that Mr Mooney was a trespasser'

The council claimed Dylan Mooney failed to meet all of the criteria for a tenancy of the two-bed house, missing a 10-year requirement by a year and eight months. File picture: iStock

A judge has refused to put an eight-month-old baby, its parents and two siblings on the street because Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council claimed they did not meet the criteria for a tenancy of a two-bed house in Co Dublin.

The decision of Judge James McCourt in the Circuit Civil Court on Monday was met with applause by friends of the family in court and the agreement of Irish People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd-Barrett and Councillor Melisa Halpen, who supported the family.