Irish Examiner View: Rental conditions absolutely unacceptable

It beggars belief that anyone could stand over the accommodation this woman and her child were living in.

Alina Maranescu who is pregnant with twins and lives with her son standing in the kitchen of her flat on Church Street, Shandon, Cork. Picture Dan Linehan

Yesterday, Liz Dunphy of this newspaper reported the story of a pregnant single mother and her little boy living in terrible conditions in a flat in Cork.

Terrible is an understatement, if anything.