Rental wreck: The accommodation crisis in Limerick and Clare

James Griffin saw his move home to live with his father last Christmas as a stop-gap measure, securing a rental property in either Limerick or Clare turned out to be just a pipe dream, writes Ann Murphy

 James Griffin is back living with his dad in McDonagh Avenue, Limerick. Picture Liam Burke/Press 22.

When James Griffin wakes up each morning in his childhood home in Limerick, it is not the life he thought he would be living when he left it to go to college in the UK after school.

Leaving then with just one suitcase, he now has accumulated a lot more possessions but has no home of his own in which to put them. His move home to live with his father last Christmas was a stop-gap measure, or so he thought.