Cork City Council to reconsider homeless mother's social housing application

The mother of four initiated her action last June claiming she has been on the local authority’s housing waiting list for 14 years

Cork City Council has also agreed to Ms McDonagh’s application being sent back to it for fresh consideration by a different officer. File picture: Denis Minihane

Cork City Council has agreed to a High Court order quashing its deferral of a social housing application made by a woman living in emergency homeless accommodation with her four children.

Margaret McDonagh (43) initiated her action last June claiming she has been on the local authority’s housing waiting list for 14 years.