A Donegal landlord who terminated the tenancy of a family of seven, claiming his daughter required the home to live in, has been ordered to pay €15,000 in damages after a tribunal heard she never moved in full-time but only stayed at the property “for weekends regularly”.
A Residential Tenancies Board tribunal described as “profound” the consequences suffered by Claire Friel and her family who resorted to living in two separate mobile homes after their tenancy was terminated.
Ms Friel, who lived at the house in Termon, Letterkenny, with her partner, David McLaughlin, and their five children since 2015, received a notice of termination in October 2022 from their landlord,…