Protest by mother who left flat where urine dripped down wall  

The ceiling collapsed in March at the flat where heavily pregnant Alina Marinescu and her son lived and the family, now including baby twins, has been in emergency accommodation ever since

Alina Marinescu with three-month-old twins Justin and Joshua and dog Jacks protest outside Cork City Hall. Picture: Dan Linehan

A mother who was living with her child in a flat where human excrement dripped through her ceiling has begun a housing protest outside Cork City Hall.

Alina Marinescu, 36, had been living in a flat where faeces and urine dripped down the walls and seeped through the ceiling from the flat above.