Michael Moynihan: For so many of us, the words ‘housing’ and ‘crisis’ are inseparable

Terrible despair being suffered by people who have no security of accommodation

Clare Austick (left), President of Union of Students Ireland, and members of USI, outside Leinster House, Dublin, to take part in a “No keys, no degrees” protest and sleep out against a lack of accommodation for students. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

SLOW though I am to recall the golden days of yesteryear (eh? — ed), one story deserves a quick revival this morning.

In my previous life in the Oireachtas I recall being buttonholed by a politician in the Dáil canteen (not the Members’ Restaurant, I hasten to add) about something, and in the conversation he asked where I lived in Dublin.