Travellers cannot park wherever they like

MEMBERS of the Travelling community cannot be allowed to park their mobile homes wherever they liked while awaiting provision of accommodation by local authorities, a High Court judge said yesterday.

Mr Justice O’Neill said the problem of provision of accommodation for Travellers and the endless moving of them from place to place had beset and bedeviled the courts for many years.

He told Mr James Macken, SC, counsel for Clare County Council and Ennis Town Council, that if Travellers applied to a local authority to be housed there would be inevitable delay.