Two families have barricaded themselves into their condemned home to avoid eviction.
The two families are living in one-room flats in a condemned building at St Kevin's Avenue in the Blackpitts in Dublin. The building is almost two hundred years old. They are determined to stay in their homes until they are offered a suitable alternative.
The Kennedy and Barrett families have each been offered a new house by Dublin Corporation in Ballymun. However, they claim the rents are too high and want to be rehoused on the southside of the city in either Crumlin or Drimnagh.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 17 October 1967. The footage shown here is mute.
