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Finding a place to rent in Dublin is a challenge for most people in the city.

When we do find a place that’s reasonably priced, there always seems to be some sort of catch.

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Like this room for just €390 per month — the catch is that the bed is literally beside the landlady’s bed.

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RTE’s Morning Ireland reports that students say they are being forced to live in sub-standard accommodation and couch surf.

Aisling Kenny spoke about the crisis third-level students face as they struggle to find somewhere to live.

Taking to Twitter, she shared a photo of a room that was advertising towards college students.

Accommodation being offered to students in Dublin. Two double beds side by side taking up most of the room space.The landlady told me she would be staying in the other bed. This is being offered to students at a cost of €390 a month! @morningireland pic.twitter.com/zeeoaflh47 — Aisling Kenny (@KennyAKE) October 26, 2018

She wrote: ‘Accommodation being offered to students in Dublin. Two double beds side by side taking up most of the room space.

‘The landlady told me she would be staying in the other bed. This is being offered to students at a cost of €390 a month!’

People were shocked by the image, asking how ‘desperate’ is the land lady to do this and that the behaviour was ‘shameful”

Shameful. And this is not ‘the government’ or ‘landlords’. We as Irish society are incapable of mustering the effort – and cohesion or fraternity – to house ourselves. It’s I’m alright Jack. At heart we are a selfish little nation. This is us. Wake up. — ski (@ciaranpmac) October 26, 2018

How desperate is the landlady to put herself through this? — Fergal Beattie (@FergalBeattie) October 26, 2018

That report on student living was unreal. We weren’t rich students and didn’t have laptops in the 90’s but we always had homes to go to. It’s crazy how student Life has changed, not for the better — Lesley Robinson (@LesTunes) October 26, 2018

Although the Oireachtas and local authorities have a responsibility to provide housing, the sheer greed and apparent shamelessness of landlords and landladies is a driving force in the property crisis. Exploitation of the vulnerable – that seems to be what is going on. — Fr. Seán R. (@Raphael241004) October 26, 2018

She said on air: ‘Over the past few weeks, I’ve been talking to students about the difficulties they’ve been having trying to get accommodation.

‘I spoke to two students in UCD, one told me the house she was living in was rat-infested and another told me that his accommodation was covered in mould.’

Audio from the female student explained that she could ‘hear them in the floorboards, they were in the walls… It was just horrible’.

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The report included many other students who shared their experience renting accommodation in Dublin, everything from water damage to sparking plug sockets.

One male student explained that the mould was so bad it made his girlfriend sick.

He said: ‘When we first moved into the place, we didn’t know because it was the first time we ever rented a place outside of home.

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‘The entire bathroom roof, down near the windows and bathroom and kitchen were covered in black mould.

‘We were too naive to notice this or notice what it was. The only reason we found out what it was was her parents came to visit and pointed it out to us.

‘This was when we had already been staying in the house for a few months.

‘Throughout this time, her health had been deteriorating. She started to get horrible coughs, we had no idea why. She was actually hospitalised once.’

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