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The human rights of the residents of one of the largest local authority estates in the State “are clearly being breached”, the President of the Irish Human Rights Commission has said.

Maurice Manning was responding to a survey carried in the Dolphin House complex in south inner-city Dublin which found 45 per cent of adults and 42 per cent of children living there had respiratory problems.