Irish Examiner View: Five years on from Grenfell, little has changed

More than 10,000 leaseholders are still trapped in unsaleable apartments with fire safety defects comparable to Grenfell.

Smoke and flames rise from Grenfell Tower in London, Wednesday, June 14, 2017. Picture: Matt Dunham/AP

It was timely for Channel 4 to run a version of the verbatim play Value Engineering to coincide with the anniversary of the Grenfell Tower high rise disaster which took the lives of 72 people on a summer night five years ago yesterday.

This production recounts, in their own words, how architects, builders, politicians, firefighters, safety experts, financial directors, and construction managers failed to ask the right questions at the right time in an appalling series of decisions which led to a catastrophe.