Two approved housing bodies have condemned anti-social and allegedly violent behaviour displayed at a Kerry estate.<\/p>\n
It follows the circulation of several videos online purporting to show people at Riverside Housing Estate in Castleisland littering, shouting and fighting.<\/p>\n
67 new homes were opened at the housing estate on the Killarney Road in the town in April 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n Kerry County Council says it has no comment on the matter and stated Riverside is an approved housing bodies development with portions managed by Cooperative Housing Ireland and Focus Ireland.<\/p>\n An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na says it\u2019s aware of an alleged incident at the social housing development between May 13th and 14th.<\/p>\n Co-operative Housing Ireland (CHI)<\/a> and Focus Ireland Housing<\/a> provide units at the Riverside Estate in Castleisland.<\/p>\n A series of videos and social media posts have emerged in recent days, meanwhile residents have highlighted concerns around ongoing disturbances.<\/p>\n These include community welfare and safety concerns, alleged unsafe behaviour, rubbish accumulation, public urination and an alleged vehicle fire.<\/p>\n Videos from the estate purport to show one property heavily littered inside and outside the premises.<\/p>\n Other videos show heated exchanges between people, pushing, roaring and two adults scuffling on the floor outside a home.<\/p>\n CHI says it\u2019s appalled by the\u00a0behaviour displayed in videos at the estate.<\/p>\n It added while it would not be appropriate to comment on individual cases, CHI takes complaints of anti-social behaviour very seriously and proactively.<\/p>\n The company continued that it is the first approved housing body to introduce a dedicated Safer Neighbourhood Team, designed to provide support services to families and individuals.<\/p>\n Focus Housing Ireland says it cannot provide information while inquiries are ongoing as this could prejudice its work or individuals involved.<\/p>\n However, it has followed up this incident with relevant stakeholders, including local Garda\u00ed and warnings will be issued in accordance to guidelines under legislation overseen by the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB).<\/p>\n Focus Housing Association added it takes all complaints very seriously and complaints relating to tenants are followed up by the housing team and action taken by the Residential Tenancies Act.<\/p>\n An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na say enquiries into an alleged incident at the Riverside Estate are ongoing and anyone with information is urged to contact Castleisland Garda Station.<\/p>\n Castleisland Garda Station can be contacted on 066 714 1204.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two approved housing bodies have condemned anti-social and allegedly violent behaviour displayed at a Kerry estate. It follows…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[204237,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-473281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-approved","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}