EU case on poor housing - A shameful development

One of the most persistent and beneficial aspects of our relationship with the EU has been the opportunity membership offers citizens who believe they have been denied their rights by our Government or by our courts to seek redress, or at least a hearing.

This process has to a very welcome degree driven social legislation and real change in this conservative society.

One of the earliest Irish applications to a European court established that a woman was entitled to free legal aid in a case that followed the collapse of her marriage.