Cork family doing their bit

ONE Irish family, who have just returned from Sri Lanka, spent the past three days knocking on neighbours' doors and furiously sending out emails as they try to rush through money to a makeshift camp in the south of the country.

The refugee camp in Galle is now home to 30,000 people, yet is nothing more than encampments of plastic sheeting structures which provide flimsy protection against the flash floods in the area.

The camp was hurriedly built last week by about 30 British estate agents who, until the tsunami hit, were making a lucrative living from a property boom.