Group told ‘book tickets online’

A GROUP of Irish teachers trying to exit Libya were told by the Irish Embassy in Rome to book airline tickets online, even though the internet has been virtually unaccessible since last Friday.

Speaking from her home in Wexford last night, Deirdre Twomey, who is in her 20s, said she felt they received “very little assistance” from the embassy as they tried to find a way out of the chaos currently engulfing the country.

She said an embassy official told them to use their “common sense” to get to the airport in Tripoli.