People living in 20 of the most run down housing estates in the country have taken a landmark case over their right to basic living conditions to Europe.
The International Federation for Human Rights has filed a 51-page complaint with the Council of Europe on behalf of 130,000 residents living in Dublin and Limerick, over sewage problems, persistent leaks, harmful damp and mould.
The action comes as a priest in Limerick has described levels of deprivation and childhood adversity in Moyross as "off the Richter scale".
First launched in 2007, three billion euro was to be spent on Limerick's Regeneration plan -- however this has been cut to 300 million euro.
David Raleigh has been talking to some of those operating on the coal face.
