‘It’s difficult for me and there’s nobody to help. I cry a lot’

“I’m dressing. Get out!”

It’s a typical screech from a young teenage girl. But for Bode Sanni-Odukoya, it’s always the start of another incendiary argument between her two eldest children — an argument that they can never walk away from.

Since 2005, Bode and her children have been living, eating and sleeping from one small room at a Cork residential centre for asylum seekers.