Today, the Irish Examiner reports on the latest apartment complex to be exposed as deficient in fire safety, Verdemont in west Dublin. Fifteen years later, it was to turn out that there were serious fire safety deficiencies in the building. The fire started in the kitchen of Apartment 73 in Verdemont, a development on Snugborough Rd, near the Blanchardstown Shopping Centre and the M50. Two days after the fire, Apartment 73 was visited by members of the building control section of Fingal County Council. If Verdemont had been inspected fully is it possible that the worst excesses of the building boom might have been avoided?

Source: Irish Examiner April 01, 2019 03:56 UTC