Residents in Cork 'extremely ill' from living in 'damp, rat-infested' apartments, council told 

councillor Albert Deasy said it was 'inhumane' to leave people in these homes 

Concrete crumbled off this windowsill on a property in Cork City Council's portfolio. Picture: Noel

An appeal to urgently move tenants living in “rat-infested, appalling conditions” in flats “for the sake of basic decency and public health” was made at Cork City Council.

Allowing people to live in a number of flats in Togher on the south side of the city is inhumane, councillor Albert Deasy told the council.