HOUSING CRISIS RAGES ON: STUDENT SLEEPS IN JUNK PRESS

Ashortage of accommodation near colleges this year has left students facing commutes of several hours, others paying significant sums in rent, and in one case a student was sleeping in a cupboard under a stairs for a period.

Students’ Unions had criticised the Government and universities for failing to do more to help students who were struggling to find housing ahead of this current college year, warning people would have to defer their education as a result.

Seán Hogan, a student in University of Limerick (UL), spent the first number of weeks of this college year sleeping in a friend’s house, in a cupboard under the stairs just big enough to fit a mattress.

“Instead of being a junk press, a single mattress was put in … I was living there and everyone was kinda joking about it,” Mr. Hogan said. “I was like, compared to the...