Mick Clifford: When homes are not ‘as safe as houses’

When Ciara Holland learned that her home was in a dangerous condition, she thought about her children. She and her husband bought their apartment in the Galloping Green Complex on Dublin's Stillorgan Road in 2006, at the height of the Celtic Tiger illusion.

Twelve years later, the couple, and hundreds of others in her block, were told that they’d been living in apartments that were not built properly.