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Five-year plans, log cabins and getting savvy helped these couples achieve their goal

Ms Cooney cannot put shelves on the walls as they are too damp to hold them, while her adult son, Marcus, cannot leave clothes or papers in his room due to the damp. “I’ve woken wheezing and coughing because my room is so cold. I am exhausted,” he says. Ms Cooney says she stopped paying rent, of “about €500 a month”, to her landlord, South Dublin County Council, “about a year ago”. She would be “delighted to pay if my home was habitable”. Local ...