He was worried he would end 'six feet under' because of the poor conditions he was living in
A 62-year-old man who has lived in a derelict slaughterhouse for four decades was celebrating this morning after he received the keys to a council property in Cork.
READ MORE:Man recovering from cancer and living in tent in Cork fears dying alone with no one knowing A clearly overwhelmed John received a warm welcome from locals when he turned the key on his terraced home in Madden’s Buildings, in Blackpool in Cork, on Wednesday. John had won the hearts of viewers of Virgin Media when he told broadcaster, Paul Byrne, that he “didn’t want to be a bother” and would like a house “if it wasn’t too much trouble.”
John said that his old home was “horrendous and shocking.” He suffers from asthma and was finding it increasingly hard to breathe in the derelict property that was home.“I wonder how many more Johns are there. Not just in Cork but in the entire country. It was an appalling situation that a man was living out there for so long without anybody doing anything about it.
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