Eight-month-old twins have to sleep in Moses baskets in a rat-infested home shared with their Traveller parents and seven young siblings, the High Court was told yesterday.

Eight-month-old twins have to sleep in Moses baskets in a rat-infested home shared with their Traveller parents and seven young siblings, the High Court was told yesterday.

A Clare school principal has intervened in a bid to secure emergency accommodation for a Traveller family living in “sub-human living conditions”.