Council threatens to evict caravan family

A FAMILY with six children — one of whom is an eight-week-old baby with a serious illness — living in a caravan on the side of a busy road in Ennis are being threatened with eviction by Clare County Council.

It means the O’Donoghues will have their caravan — which is their home — impounded as, according to council policy, their presence is an illegal encampment.

Mike O’Donoghue, his wife Anne, and five children left Clare at Christmas after their caravan containing all their belongings was burnt out on a Traveller group housing scheme to which they had been ordered by the council.