Irish Examiner view: Celtic Tiger’s legacy of shoddy building work

A deserted Priory Hall in October 2011 as the final deadline for residents to leave their apartments passed. Picture: Colin Keegan, Collins, Dublin.

The scale of the shoddy and dangerous building work carried out during the Celtic Tiger years is a crisis that has been hiding in plain sight for years — it’s just that no-one has wanted to dwell on it for too long for fear of being held responsible.

But the figures are worth pondering; it is estimated that, out of the 170,000 apartments built between 1990 and 2013, as many as 100,000 could be affected by structural or fire safety defects.