Jim Fahy looks at the squalor that many young Irish emigrants have to endure when they arrive in London.

Report shows London by night.

Squalid London flat.

Padraic Kenna, Inisfree Housing Association, London, reading a letter from an Irish emigrant in a London prison.

Interview with Padraic Kenna.

Rutland Park Mansions, a complex which has been taken over as a squat by a group of Irish young people.

Interview with Eamon Griffin on the squat.

Interview with John Griffen on life in London.

Interview with Pat Griffin on the conditions in the flats.

Interview with Padraic Kenna.

Interview with Margaret Conroy who used to work at the Babygro factory in Belmullet, County Mayo, and is now in London.

The reporter is Jim Fahy.

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