The Irish Government V The People 🪶 Homes Ravaged By Internal Sulphate Attack

Enda Craig ⬟ The disgraceful neglect by successive Irish governments has left thousands of innocent Donegal residents suffering, as their homes crumble due to defective concrete — a direct result of inadequate government oversight.

When the State finds itself entangled in a disaster of its own making, its response is often a study in calculated detachment.

For each affected homeowner whose house is crumbling, this is far more than a structural failure — it is a financial, emotional, and deeply personal catastrophe that threatens the stability of an entire family.

The psychological toll is immense: trapped in a legal obligation to continue paying a mortgage on a home that is disintegrating before their eyes, they watch their hard-earned money vanish into the void. The weight of knowing that their once-valued property is now worthless only intensifies the anguish.

But the State sees it differently.

Despite bearing significant responsibility, it swiftly distances itself from any accountability. Any assistance — meager as it may b e— is framed as a grant, a voluntary act of generosity rather than an obligation.

The crisis is recast as a management project, one whose primary objective is not justice for affected citizens, but the protection of the State’s financial interests at all costs.

This task typically falls to senior civil servants within the relevant government department — here, the Housing Agency.

Their mission is clear: safeguard the State.

Questions of morality, fairness, or fundamental rights are secondary, if considered at all.

In their view, it is nothing personal.

It is simply their job, supported unwaveringly by the political establishment, which makes noise but delivers little in the way of meaningful action.

⏩ Enda Craig is a Donegal resident and community activist.