A MOTHER-of-three yesterday staged a seven-hour protest on top of a ladder in an attempt to prevent her family being evicted from their Dublin council house for running up €13,000 in rent arrears.

IN an era of cutbacks public representatives have a duty to forego free nights rocking out to Metallica, according to a county councillor.

Single father, 34-year-old Joe Kinnane and his four young children, Jasmine, Nicole, Austin and Bobby are facing eviction from their family home in Cherrywood, Loughlinstown on August 1.