{"id":242743,"date":"2025-12-20T12:40:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T12:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/242743\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T12:40:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T12:40:14","slug":"drummer-from-the-script-is-landlord-of-mould-ridden-uninhabitable-garden-studio-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/242743\/","title":{"rendered":"Drummer from The Script is landlord of mould-ridden \u2018uninhabitable\u2019 garden studio \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

A founding member of the Irish pop-rock band The Script is the landlord of a mould-ridden, unregistered rented studio described by the tenant living there as \u201cuninhabitable\u201d.<\/p>\n

Glen Power plays drums and co-founded the band with Danny O\u2019Donoghue and the late Mark Sheehan in 2001.<\/p>\n

The band have achieved huge commercial success across the world, having sold 12 million albums and four million concert tickets, according to their Spotify page.<\/p>\n

Power is the director of a company called Open Bridge Ltd, with his son Luke Power is registered as the secretary. <\/p>\n

[\u00a0Living in a mould-covered garden studio: \u2018Christmas is going to be miserable\u2019Opens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

Open Bridge Ltd had tangible assets of more than \u20ac8 million at the end of 2024, the latest financial statement filed for the company shows. <\/p>\n

The company is listed as the landlord of a studio apartment in the garden of a three bedroom semidetached house in Tallaght, Dublin 24. <\/p>\n

While the three-bed house is registered with the Residential Tenancies Board, the one-bedroom apartment at the rear is not.<\/p>\n

Tenant Oriel Corway is in receipt of the Housing Assistance Payment, a State scheme for people on the social housing list.<\/p>\n

This State-funded payment covers the majority of the rent for the apartment, which is more than \u20ac1,300 a month. <\/p>\n

In May 2025 Corway paid for an engineer\u2019s survey on the property, seen by The Irish Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The report found high levels of dampness and mould growth throughout the inside of the apartment.<\/p>\n

It also found insufficient ventilation, exposed live wires and poor weather sealing around the doors and windows.<\/p>\n

\"OrielOriel Corway in the flat in Tallaght, Dublin. Photograph: Bryan O\u2019Brien <\/p>\n

The report recommended engaging a damp-proofing specialist to resolve the issues, the removal and treatment of the mould and the rewiring of the unit.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is mould everywhere, it\u2019s all over everything and it is probably all over me,\u201d Corway said. <\/p>\n

Photographs show significant black mould growth on the walls and ceilings, particularly in the bathroom, which she described as \u201ca nightmare\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"Oriel Corway:Oriel\u00a0Corway: ‘There is mould everywhere.’ Photograph: Bryan O\u2019Brien <\/p>\n

She has to pull out the couch several times a week to clean up puddles of water which gather there, she said, and the situation is worse in her bedroom.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy bed is soaking wet, I have to dry it with a hair dryer some nights. Sometimes I wake up and I\u2019m soaking wet. It\u2019s no way to live,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She has raised the issue with letting agent Ray Cooke on several occasions, and they have sent in workmen a number of times. However, the mould and leaks persist in the apartment. <\/p>\n

\"MouldMould on the wall of the studio flat rented by Oriel\u00a0Conway in Tallaght, Dublin. Photograph: Bryan O\u2019Brien <\/p>\n

Local authorities are responsible for enforcing the minimum standards required for rental properties in Ireland. <\/p>\n

They have the power to inspect the property and can issue improvement or prohibition notices to non-compliant landlords. <\/p>\n

It does not appear any such inspection has taken place at this unit.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for Ray Cooke, also speaking on behalf of Glen Power, said the landlord \u201cis fully committed to have the issues resolved in full\u201d and has \u201cbeen looking at ways to keep [the] tenant in situ while works are completed\u201d.<\/p>\n

More than \u20ac9,000 has been spent trying to rectify the issue over the last eight months, he said, and the landlord has received his own property survey \u201cfor comparison\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cExtensive works are required to remedy\u201d the issues found and \u201cvacant possession will be required while works are completed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The \u201ctenant will be offered the property back once works are completed,\u201d the spokesman said. <\/p>\n

When asked if an inspection would be carried out at the property, South Dublin County Council said it would not comment on an individual case.<\/p>\n

Speaking generally, it said: \u201cInspections are conducted as part of a planned inspection cycle and are also undertaken in response to complaints from tenants or members of the public\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A founding member of the Irish pop-rock band The Script is the landlord of a mould-ridden, unregistered rented…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19620,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,1109,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-242743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-bob","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-media","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115751946068462750","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}