Travellers ordered back to rat-infested site

A TRAVELLER family-of-seven living in a tiny caravan at the side of a busy road have been ordered by Clare County Council to return to a vermin-infested halting site.

Francie Doherty and his family vacated the site last month after their mobile home became infested with rats, forcing them to sleep in the back of their van.

With temperatures plummeting, they got a caravan from a relative and, since then, have been parked on a main road near Ennis.