MICA campaigners fear a “tsunami of homelessness” as accommodation problems strikes hard-hit families who’ve had to leave their defective homes. Some 7,500 homes will benefit after the Government agreed a revised rebuilding scheme last year. Micheal Martin previously...
Defective concrete blocks in homes in Co Donegal are failing because of pyrrhotite and not mica, according to a study published in leading international journal Cement and Concrete Research. There could be 2,000 legal actions, with a total value of €550 million,...
A secondary school teacher says students are not accepting college places as they are concerned about the financial implications to their mica affected families. Angeline Ruddy is a teacher at Moville Community College and is also a mica homeowner.She was speaking at...
It is “very frustrating” that nobody has been prosecuted for making defective building blocks, the Tánaiste has said. Leo Varadkar said the issue was a matter for Gardai and other authorities to bring those behind the blocks to justice. He was speaking after the...
An Tánaiste Leo Varadkar viewed the horrendous reality of a mica-affected home on Friday, where a couple’s living room ceiling is propped up by supports. Peter and Michelle Patton’s dream home outside Letterkenny is crumbling around them. The walls are cracking at...
