Traveller family pleads for halting site

THE mother of a Traveller family who have lived on the roadside for 18 months pleaded last night for a halting site in time for Christmas.

Margaret Faulkner and her family left an official halting site on Cork’s northside in summer 2006 after a family tragedy.

But because there is no space at any of the city’s three official halting sites — at Spring Lane, Carrigrohane Road and Hollyhill — they have been forced to live at various roadside locations since.