More than 1,000 houses in Limerick may have to be demolished and rebuilt in an effort to combat the problem of social deprivation, it has been claimed.

Brendan Kenny, the Chief Executive of the Limerick Southside Regeneration Agency (LSRA) has said the scale of the deprivations in the Southill and Moyross areas of the city is the worst he has ever encountered.

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Mr Kenny said that in his view a lot of the social service agencies simply cannot cope with the high concentration of social housing and deprivation, and unless there is huge intervention by these agencies there will be another crisis in ten years time.

According to the LSRA, green space in the areas is to be used to build new housing clusters and move families into these before demolishing others.

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