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The Wexford eviction mess, with Paul Hosford
Earlier in March, news broke in the Irish Examiner that 36 households in one estate in Co. Wexford had been served with eviction notices just hours before new rental rules kicked in.36 families with nowhere to go would be a crisis in any context, but with record homeless figures, an incident like this in the Housing Minister’s James Browne’s own constituency would have been a political disaster for the government as well as a personal one for all of those concerned.The uproar compounded when a Ring doorbell video emerged in the days that followed, showing the landlord’s agent stating clearly…
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