‘It is impossible to find a place’: teachers struggling in rental market

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'I’ve been four or five weeks driving up from Mayo, a four-hour journey, doing viewings for places, with no luck at all’

‘I’ve been four or five weeks driving up from Mayo, a four-hour journey, doing viewings for places with no luck at all’The Teachers’ Union of Ireland warned this week that schools are facing an 'alarming' struggle to hire teachers before the new term because of the cost-of-living crisis, 'particularly in relation to accommodation and transport' in urban areasDarren Timlin , from Rossport, Belmullet, Co Mayo, is a secondary school teacher working in Greystones, Co Wicklow, but...

“I’ve found it absolutely impossible to find a place,” he says. “I’ve been four or five weeks driving up from Mayo, a four-hour journey, doing viewings for places, with no luck at all.” The Teachers’ Union of Ireland warned this week that schools are facing an “alarming” struggle to hire teachers before the new term because of the cost-of-living crisis, “particularly in relation to accommodation and transport” in urban areas.

“You have to kind of take what you get, to get your experience and get your foot in the door. It’s impossible to get a job back home when you are just starting out,” he says, which effectively means moving to Dublin.

 

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Hardly surprising given that tenants can take your house and bugger all you can do about it.

Pay more simpl as.

They should call Robert Troy.

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