We need a government who will prioritise plight of hidden homeless

There are thousands of families living in overcrowded and inappropriate conditions, writes Fergus Finlay. 

HOW is it possible that Ireland, a proud European republic, first of all allows a private venture fund to buy a housing estate, and then immediately to begin eviction proceedings against anyone who is a tenant in the estate? How can that happen in the modern world? What kind of country would allow that?

And yet if we can believe the news, that’s exactly what is happening to perhaps 60 families in Tyrrellstown in west Dublin. They are facing eviction because the debts of the developer who built their homes were sold to what we now know as a vulture fund, and they are determined to make as quick a profit as they can by dumping families on the street. In the middle of a large and growing crisis of homelessness, these families and their children will be added to a spectacularly shameful set of statistics.