'I could cry when I look at the cracks' - The pensioners embroiled in mica blocks turmoil

Kenny and Kathleen Rodgers welcome us into their home in the kind of gentle, unassuming and friendly way Donegal is known for.

At their home in Carndonagh, Kathleen explains that her family has lived there for generations.

They never thought they would be able to buy here, until Kenny received redundancy money from the local alcohol factory. It meant they could build their home on an empty plot, landscaping the area with trees and plants.

The place has become a sanctuary for her grandchildren, too. Kathleen’s face lights up as she speaks about them. A glimmer of sadness remains as she does, as she explains how her grandson asked her ‘Granny, why did you buy those blocks?’

The Rodgers family is one of an ever-growing number in Ireland who live in a home unfit for purpose, built as it was from faulty blocks with unsafe levels of mica minerals.

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