Pensioner faces homelessness

A PENSIONER with three weeks to find a new home before her notice of termination expires claims that difficulties with housing rules means she feels “like I don’t exist”.

- SEAN MURPHY

Micheline Walsh, 78, said her imminent notice to quit her home brings up “images of the Famine, images of dirt, inability to clean yourself, nowhere to sleep”.

She cares for her elderly stroke victim husband and fears their age means they are too old to wait for a place on a lengthy housing list.

Micheline revealed yesterday they could no longer pay their rent when she lost her job as an administrator for a language school during the pandemic.

The couple were last November given six months to get out of their rented home in Dublin, but that was stalled by the eviction ban.