Judge orders council to inspect mouldy, rat-infested flat that is 'unfit for human habitation'

The court was told that the mother had to wash down the black mould and re-paint the areas several times a year

The Oliver Bond complex in Dublin. The court heard that the flat in the complex where Sinead Moran lives had black mould and was also rat-infested. 

A mother and her two children have been living in a Dublin City Council flat that is unfit for human habitation, a judge has ruled.

Judge Sinead Ni Chulachain heard in the Circuit Civil Court on Friday that Sinead Moran had been forced to throw out clothes that were covered in black mould in her bedroom wardrobe as well as having to dump her bed mattress because of her damp and unventilated flat.