A woman renting a house in Carndonagh has been ordered to pay €8,000 in rental arrears.
The order was made by the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB).
The woman was ordered to pay the sum to a housing body after she failed to pay the rent for a number of months.
It was one of a number of cases dealt with and highlighted in a report published by the rental watchdog.
The latest disputes published by the RTB show tenants have racked up significant arrears.
It also showed how others refused to vacate properties after being served with valid eviction notices.
Landlords who illegally evicted tenants and unfairly retained rental deposits were also the subject of complaints ton the board.
One of the most high-profile cases was that of two tenants renting a property in Dublin have been ordered to pay their landlord more than €37,000 in arrears.
The tenants, who were living in a house in Clonskeagh, had racked up rent arrears of €41,000 and had their security deposit of €3,950 withheld.
The rental watchdog, the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB), ordered for the outstanding amount of €37,973 to be paid.
There were 22 disputes concerning tenants allegedly overholding after being issued with notices of termination.
Housing charities have indicated that tenants are refusing to move out of properties as they have nowhere else to go due to a lack of rental and emergency accommodation.
More than 4,300 notices of termination were issued by landlords in the last three months of last year. Of the total number of eviction notices issued, 43pc were to tenants in Dublin, with nearly 11pc in Cork and more than 6pc in Galway.
Some landlords were ordered to pay damages after serving invalid eviction notices and failing to return deposits. In one case, the landlord of a property in Cork was ordered to pay €200 damages and return a security deposit of €1,000.
