Family trapped in living hell as home under siege from intimidating drug addicts

• Author: Dan Grennan
• Published date: 10 February 2023
• Publication title: DublinLive (Ireland)

However, one young family faces this "nightmare" on their doorstep every time they leave their city centre home. For the last 18 months, Karol Wisniewski, his partner Paulina Josephine and their children Julia, 4, and Sabinka, 7, have been living in what they describe as a "dump"

They were homeless for two and a half years before Dublin City Council offered them the city centre apartment. They thought their dreams had come true but it quickly became a nightmare.

Karol said: "They offered me this but nobody told me the road was full of drug addicted people, there is a homeless hostel nearby and that people regularly pee and poo on the street."

"There is pee and poo everywhere", he said. Karol has a collection of over 200 videos of the filth, the needles, people smoking crack and shooting heroin as well as a shocking incident of a woman being resuscitated by the emergency services.

"My girlfriend is even afraid to go on the street during the day and we never go out during the night - we are stuck here."

The floors were level when they moved in but it has started to sink in places. So much so, that a bottle of water rolls down the floor by itself.

The walls have also started to crack in places and the heating doesn't work. They rely on an electric heater to heat the apartment.

Now, the desperate dad and mam are at their wits end after living in the "dump" for a year and a half.

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