A House Divided: what's happening at the Housing Agency

What does the row between Conor Skehan and John O'Connor mean for an agency that advises the government on the housing crisis?

Personality clash: Conor Skehan, chairman (left), and John O’Connor, chief executive of the Housing Agency

On Monday, John O’Connor and Conor Skehan sat down to clear the air.

The two men are, respectively, chief executive and chairman of the Housing Agency, the body at the heart of one of Ireland’s most intractable crises: homelessness.

The day before, O’Connor had been quoted in this newspaper publicly rejecting comments by Skehan that had sparked the latest in a series of controversies provoked by the agency’s chairman.

Skehan had said that ...