Annual Hyde gathering told State aids private landlords 'to obscene degree'

Irish Times Sunday 6th November, 2011

MARESE McDONAGHTHE IRISH obsession with owning property is certainly connected with our history of dispossession, ';but that’s no excuse for what we’ve done to ourselves, and the shameful lack of any meaningful rights for tenants';, the 2011 Douglas Hyde Conference in Ballaghaderreen, Co Roscommon, heard yesterday.Catriona Crowe, head o...

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