People in Mayo are being urged to boycott holiday-home owners in the county.
The director of services for housing and roads at Mayo County Council sent an email to members of his local authority committee last week, urging the community boycott of holiday home owners.
Tom Gilligan says the properties are left empty for large parts of the year.
The boycott would involve avoiding patronage of businesses owned by absentee landlords, refusing to engage with holiday-home owners, and posters and community meetings encouraging solidarity.
He says holiday-home owners aren’t neighbours people want:
Fine Gael councillor Peter Flynn says the idea was first suggested at a housing SPC meeting last week.
He says the goal isn’t to demonise landlords, it’s to work with them.
Councillor Flynn says the view taken by Tom Gilligan doesn’t represent those on the housing SPC…
