Govt could have prevented concrete crisis but ignored EU Laws, expert tells Donegal conference

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The Irish Government could have avoided Donegal’s crumbling homes crisis if it had followed European Standards on pyrrhotite set out in a directive 23 years ago, a world-leading concrete expert told a local conference today.

Homeowners, campaigners, politicians, academics and international experts gathered at An Grianan Hotel in Burt for the 2025 Defective Concrete Conference.

The conference was organised and hosted by Ulster University and academics Dr Eileen Doherty and Professor Paul Dunlop whose recently published research debunked the theory that crumbling homes have been caused by the Mica mineral.